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Ewald Daub
1889 - 1946 |
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. The cinematographer Ewald Daub didn't have an easy childhood as an orphan. He finished a commercial apprenticeship after the school and also made an education as a photographer. After a professional detour to Brazil where he worked as a commercial employee in Blumenau he returned to Berlin in 1911 and got a job by Tesch & Geyer. There he was among others introduced to the world of cinema. But he didn't make his first experiences as a cinematographer for the cinema but as a war correspondent during World War I. After the end of the war he came to a decision to continue his professional life as a cinematographer. To his first movies belong "Das Nachttelegramm" (19) and "Alfreds Techtelmechtel" (19). He became established in his profession during the 20s and he was responsible for the camera for productions like "Der Bagnosträfling" (21), "Dämon Liebe" (21), "Lucifer" (22), "Martin Luther" (23), "Das Wirtshaus im Spessart" (23), "Helena" (24), "Der Mann im Sattel" (25), "Unsere Emden" (26), "Gauner im Frack" (27), "Feme" (27), "Panik" (28), "Unmoral" (28) and "Sein bester Freund" (29). His engagement for the film business remained undiminished in the 30s and many of his works came into being with the actor and director Harry Piel with whom he worked together since 1928. At the same time he also shot numerous short movies from the middle of the 30s. To his well-known works of those years belong "Schatten der Unterwelt" (31), "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" (31), "Gehetzte Menschen" (32), "Ganovenehre" (33), "Ein Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt" (33), "Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs" (34), "Der Herr der Welt" (34), "Endstation" (35), "Der Kurier des Zaren" (36), "Der Tiger von Eschnapur" (38), "Das indische Grabmal" (38), "8 Millionen suchen einen Erben" (38), "Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan" (38) and "Maria Ilona" (39). His last cinematical works came during World War II into being, among them "Der Weg zu Isabel" (40), "Kleider machen Leute" (40), "Andreas Schlüter" (42), "Die Feuerzangenbowle" (44) with Heinz Rühmann and "Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel" (44). After the war he worked as a photographer and he shot the documentary about the opera "Eugen Onegin" (46). Shortly afterwards he died as a consequence of a kidney operation. The movie "Quax in Afrika" (47) was broadcasted in the cinema posthumous in 1947. The movie was already shot during World War II. Other
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