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| Gotthardt Wolf
1887 - 1947 |
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. The cinematographer Gotthardt Wolf first learnt the education of a photographer before he began as a cinematographer in 1910. The young film business became very popular in no time and Gotthardt Wolf became a demanded cinematographer. He filmed the movies "Wer ist der Täter?" (13), "Das geheimnisvolle Zeichen" (14), "Fräulein Piccolo" (15), "U-Boote heraus" (17) and "Höllenzauber" (19). His career became interrupted during World War I and he worked for the Kaiserliches Bild- und Filmamt and was sent to Finland among other destinations. His height of his career followed in the 20s and especially during his collaboration with the action star and director Harry Piel he developd new effects continuously which accentuated the stunts on the big screen. To his most popular works of those years belong "Über den Wolken" (20), "Judith Trachtenberg" (20), "Der Flug in den Tod" (21), "Die Tigerin" (22), "Menschen und Masken" (24), "Der Mann ohne Nerven" (24), "Der schwarze Pierrot" (26), "Achtung Harry! Augen auf!" (26), "Sein grösster Bluff" (27), "Panik" (28), "Mann gegen Mann" (28) and "Sein bester Freund" (29). Gotthardt Wolf was only involved in few more cinematical works during the 30s, afterwards he dedicated to the industry and commercial shorts, often for the company Siemens. To his last works belong "Die grosse Attraktion" (31), the color film "Wäsche - Waschen - Wohlergehen" (32) directed by Johannes Guter and the short movie "Karneval" (36).
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