Werner Jacobs
Werner Jacobs ( born April 24, 1909 in Berlin, † January 24, 1999 in Munich) was a German editor and film director.
Life
The son of Stereotypeurs and businessman Louis Jacobs and his wife Erna born Kadow made in 1928 graduated from high school at the secondary school in Berlin -Steglitz. Since he could take for financial reasons no studies, he spent two years unsuccessfully looking for work. In 1930 he found employment at the Berliner Synchron Studio Rhythmographie. Jacobs worked here as a draftsman, film and sound editor assistant.
1934-37 he worked as an editor and assistant director at the German branch of MGM, where he established German versions of films with Greta Garbo, among others. Beginning in 1939, Jacobs was appointed by the Bavaria Film also as an editor and assistant director at the German productions. From 1940 he was drafted into the army until he was considered incapacitated due to a serious lung and pleurisy from 1943.
After the war, Jacobs was until 1949 chief editor of all posts of the newsreel series in the film world. He continued to work as an assistant director and turned himself several short documentaries, which were common as opening act in theaters at the time.
With The blue and white Lion Jacobs was in 1952 made his debut as a feature film director. He became a proficient arranger of musical comedies, operettas and films hit films in which the respective stars such as Peter Alexander, Cornelia Froboess or Freddy Quinn had their great performances. These entertainment films, sometimes funny, sometimes touching, avoiding any thoughts serious argument with time problems and usually achieved great popular success in 1960 film adaptation of the operetta The White Horse Inn with popular actors Peter Alexander, Waltraud Haas, Gunther Philipp and Adrian Hoven.
1967-1971 Jacobs staged a total of four parts of the series The lout from the first bank, with which he put back his sense of humor to the test. Very successful were his two aligned on compassion directorial work with the Dutch pop star Heintje.
Werner Jacobs worked as a director, a typical representative of the German postwar cinema. After the end of the traditional music of the film in the seventies, he retired into private life. He was married to Gertrude Hart since 1945 and was the father of his sons Joachim ( b. 1948 ) and Hans ( b. 1949 ).