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| Robert Neppach
1890 - 1939 |
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. The production designer Robert Neppach studied painting and art at the academy of Munich before he got an engagement as a stage designer at the Neues Theater in Frankfurt. There he made first important experiences which inured to the benefit of him for is future film career. In 1919 he created the set for his first movies, among them "Das Glück der Irren" (19) and "Die Frau im Käfig" (19). He became established in this field during the 20s and he was engaged by many famous director of those years. To his most popular works belong "Va banque" (20), "Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin" (20), "Das wandernde Bild" (20), "Die Geliebte Roswolskys" (21), "Das Spiel mit dem Weibe" (22), "Lucrezia Borgia" (22), "Von morgens bis Mitternacht" (22), "Paganini" (23), "Bismarck, 1. Teil" (25), "Am Rande der Welt" (27) and "Der Raub der Sabinerinnen" (28). His last movies as a production designer came at the beginning of the 30s into being with "Er oder ich" (30), "Zwei Herzen im Dreiviertel-Takt" (30), "Der Herr auf Bestellung" (30), "Grock" (31), "Wochenend im Paradies" (31), "Gehetzte Menschen" (32) and "Der Stolz der 3. Kompanie" (32). Afterwards he changed his focus to the production of movies. He founded his own company R.N. Filmproduktion GmbH and realised movies like "Grün ist die Heide" (32), "Kleiner Mann - was nun?" (33), "La Paloma" (34), "Kater Lampe" (36) and "Hilde Petersen postlagernd" (36). When his company was dissolved by command of Goebbels, Robert Neppach retired from the film business and worked again as an architect, a job he already practiced before he started his film career. Besides his activity as a production designer and producer he also created the costumes for some movies, so for "Verlogene Moral" (21), "Der Graf von Charolais" (22), "Lucrezia Borgie" (22), "Von morgens bis Mittenacht" (22), "Bismarck, 1. Teil" (25) and "Am Rande der Welt" (27). Private Robert Neppach was married with the tennis player Nelly Bamberger. She committed suicide in 1933 because she did not have any future as a Jew in Germany. Robert Neppach remarried with the daughter of the conductor Bruno Walter and they lived in Switzerland from 1938. But the isolation from his home country and the estrangement of his wife led to an irrational act and Robert Neppach shot his wife and killed himself afterwards.
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