Otto Rippert
Otto Rippert ( born October 22, 1869 in Offenbach am Main; † 18 January 1940 in Berlin) was a German stage actor and film director.
Life
Rippert worked at theaters in Baden -Baden, forestry, Bamberg and Berlin. In 1906 he staged in Baden- Baden his first film for the French company Gaumont. It was not until 1912 he again came into contact with the film as he participated in the Titanic movie in night and ice as a performer. In the same year his directing career began in film. In the 1910s Rippert was one of the most prolific German directors.
His greatest achievements of the early German film, the six -part series on the artificial human homunculus of 1916 and the historical epic film The Plague in Florence ( 1919), for the Fritz Lang wrote the screenplay. Lang was in 1919 still employed by two other films as scriptwriter for Rippert.
After 1924 Otto Rippert retired from work as a director and worked as an editor. Today, his work is almost forgotten.