Willy Hameister
Willy Hameister ( born Wilhelm Franz Hameister; born December 3, 1889 in Kranz field ( county Greifenhagen, Pomerania ); † February 13, 1938 in Berlin) was a German cameraman, a veteran of cinematography.
Life
Hameister began his professional career in 1904 at the ' German Bioscop ', his first works as a cameraman were in 1906/07 so-called news.
As of 1912, Hameister focused on the feature film, he rolled his first work for the government novices Harry Piel. Right after that he committed the slightly more governing experienced Wiener Joe May Especially the director Otto Rippert, Willy Hameister in its capacity as an actor in June 1912 at the cinematic reconstruction of the events surrounding the sinking of the Titanic ("In Night and Ice" ) had met the cameraman employed initially on a regular basis. After his military service from 1914 to 1918 Hameister started work as a cameraman at Ripperts scandalous ' customs film ' " Hyenas of Lust " back on. For Rippert he also photographed immediately afterwards one of his most opulent work, the large-scale Renaissance broadsheet " The Plague in Florence".
In the same year 1919 Willy Hameister was involved in one of the most legendary classics of cinema history, the expressionist masterpiece " The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ". Yet they let him since only a short time to photograph high-class occupied dramas and epics, including " Genuine" of Caligari director Robert Wiene, Urban Gad " Christian Wahnschaffe " and Dimitri Buchowetzkis " Peter the Great" with Emil Jannings in the title role.
Soon after Hameisters sank oeuvre in mediocrity. He photographed only a considerable number of simple comedies, farces and farces of the stamp "Princess Trulala ", " No celebration without Meyer " and " The Terror of the garrison ," a handful of melodramas and adventure, equipment and sensational films with Ellen Richter.
From 1933, he received orders usually only for short films, for larger productions had Hameister several times to go abroad (Czechoslovakia and Portugal). Hameister was the summer of 1936 one of several cameramen who had been involved in Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia film.
After he fell seriously ill in May 1937, Willy Hameister withdrew from the film. He died a year later, a few months after his 48th birthday.