Walter Ruttmann
Walter Ruttmann; Walther Ruttmann occasionally ( born December 28, 1887 in Frankfurt am Main, † July 15, 1941 in Berlin) was a German cameraman, film director and next to Hans Richter, the leading exponent of German abstract experimental film.
Life
Ruttmann studied art and architecture from 1907. His film work began with experimental short films ( Light-Play Opus I- IV). For Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen he recorded in 1924, " Falk dream sequence". In 1926 he worked at Lotte Reiniger's silhouette animation film The Adventures of Prince Achmed. His film history 's most important work is the 1927 film resulting assembly Berlin - Symphony of a Great City. The film documents a day routine of the metropolis Berlin in rhythmically cut momentum that was influenced by Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov.
Less well known is that Walter Ruttmann was also the director of the first full-length German sound film, which premiered under the title German radio on August 31, 1928 opening of the 5th " Great German Radio Exhibition" in Berlin. With its sound montage Weekend ( 1930) Ruttmann has also provided a significant contribution to the development of the radio play.
From 1933 Ruttmann conformed to the conventions of the Nazi- dominated Ufa, turned 1933 propaganda film blood and soil and created last short documentary films and Nazi war propaganda. Leni Riefenstahl was inspired by Ruttmann cutting technique and his sense of rhythm and pulled him to work at its plant Triumph of the Will (1935 ) approach.
Walter Ruttmann died in Berlin in 1941 after an operation from the effects of embolism.