Karl Hasselmann
Karl Hasselmann ( born May 8, 1883 in Hannover, † June 8, 1966 in Berlin ( West) ) was a German cinematographer.
Biography
Hasselmann completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic and worked from 1906 in the workshop of theater equipment and gramophones at Carl Buderus in Hanover. In the same year Hasselmann turned together with Adolf Peck for Buderus a trailing actuality film about the Captain of Köpenick. In 1908 he went as a cameraman " with their own recording equipment and photo equipment " to Berlin and was first assistant director Emil Schünemann at Deutsche Mutoscope and Biograph GmbH. Until 1913 Hasselmann worked for Bioscop, Vitascop and Gloria film in Berlin.
It was not until 1919 Hasselmann was again active in the film and came to their own artistic expression, the people and environment characterizations came to meet the German chamber drama film. Karl Hasselmann Ewald André Dupont worked for (including Geierwally, 1920), Paul Leni and Leopold Jessner ( backstairs, 1921), Karl Grune ( The Road and Green Was My Valley, each 1923) and Lupu Pick ( Sylvester, 1923). After that, he was a regular contributor to the director Gerhard Lamprecht, so at the disreputable (1925 ), men with one another (1926) and The Cats' Bridge (1927 ).
In the time of the early sound film Hasselmann stood for many popular films in the style of Harry Piel's about people, animals, sensations (1938 ) behind the camera. After the Second World War, he could not continue his work. There was only one movie for Lamprecht, after which he made short documentary films.