Robert Baberske
Robert Baberske ( born May 1, 1900 in Rixdorf in Berlin, † March 27, 1958 in Berlin) was a German cinematographer.
Life
Baberske was as a young amateur actor in theater clubs. Through his brother he met the cinematographer Karl Freund, and became his assistant. As an assistant to Karl Freund Baberske was from 1920 to 1925 involved in the production of several films Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. By working as a camera assistant he became acquainted with the work of a cameraman. From 1926 he was self-employed behind the lens.
For Walther Ruttmann's documentary Berlin - Symphony of a big city Baberske turned together with Reimar Kuntze and Laszlo Schaffer with a hidden camera Berlin street scenes. As a second cameraman Baberske worked until 1932, among others, Eugene Schüfftan, Franz Fritz Arno Wagner and planners. After that, he was first cameraman, 1934, he received a permanent position at the Ufa in Neubabelsberg and mostly filmed entertainment and adventure films; as a more upscale productions about Detlef Siercks musicians film final chord (1936) and for the production company Wien-Film Love Story Summer Love ( 1942) by Erich Engel. Frequent collaborations resulted with directors Robert A. Stemmle, Georg Jacoby and Erich Waschneck, The Rothschilds Baberske also stood for his anti- Jewish film available.
Baberske had acquired a reputation as a sovereign and seasoned master of light use and took over as his first work after the war ended in 1947 for Artur Brauner's production company, the recordings of the film King of Hearts. Then he found a job with the DEFA at his old job in Babelsberg. Baberske was cinematographer time-critical films of Slatan Dudow as Our Daily Bread (1949) and women's lives (1952 ), Baberskes first color film. For the resulting directed by Falk Harnack Arnold Zweig filming The Axe of Wandsbek (1951 ) was also Baberske highlighted by critics because of its created of light and shadow suggestive intensity. Even with Wolfgang Staudte Baberske created in the early years of the DEFA film works of enduring value, especially the satire of Straw (1951 ) by Heinrich Mann and the filming of the Wilhelm -Hauff - tale The History of Little Mook ( 1953).
Baberske was married and had two children. Mid-1950s, he fell ill with a brain tumor and died after a long illness at the age of 57 years. He was buried in Berlin- Neukölln, but his tomb has already been abandoned. In Potsdam - Drewitz a street was named after him.