Carl Wilhelm

Carl Wilhelm (born 1885 in Germany [Walter Fritz, 1996, p. 302] ; date and place of death unknown) was a prolific German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity.

Life

After his first work, the short documentary film "Ein vergnügter Wintertag im Berliner Grunewald", made for the producer Oskar Messter in 1909, Wilhelm worked for many other Berlin production companies. For example, in the years before World War I, he filmed for "Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH" in Lankwitz and "BB-Film-Fabrikation Bolten-Baeckers" in Steglitz a series of comedies starring the silent film star Leo Peukert.

The two comedies he shot in 1913 and 1914 with Ernst Lubitsch - "Die Firma heiratet" and "Der Stolz der Firma" - were very successful. As late as 1919 a critic could write: "Die Firma heiratet" and "Meyer aus Berlin" are still our best films." [Bobby E. Lüthge im "Film-Kurier", Nr. 15, 22 June 1919]

In 1915, with his company "Cewe-Films", and in 1920/21, with "Carl-Wilhelm-Film GmbH", he also operated as his own producer. In 1917 and 1918 he made a number of films in Hungarian. Carl Wilhelm remained a sought-after director until the end of the silent film period. He then ceased to work almost entirely - he is last heard of as a production assistant in 1935 - and nothing is known of the date or place of his death.

Filmography

As director

* 1909: "Ein vergnügter Wintertag im Berliner Grunewald" – also actor
* 1911: "Leibeigenschaft" (with Leo Peukert)

* 1912: "Der abgeführte Liebhaber"
* 1912: "Brüderchens Heldentat"
* 1912: "Das elfte Gebot: Du sollst nicht stören Deines Nächsten Flitterwochen"
* 1912: "Die Hand des Schicksals" (with Leopoldine Konstantin) – co-director with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
* 1912: "Leo, der Witwenfreund" / "Leo als Witwenfreund" (with Leo Peukert)
* 1912: "Mama: Roman aus dem Leben einer Schauspielerin"
* 1912: "Die Nachbarskinder" – co-director with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers

* 1912/13: "Leo, der schwarze Münchhausen" (with Leo Peukert)
* 1913: "Die Kunstschützin" (with Leo Peukert) – also actor; co-director with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
* 1913: "Der Shylock von Krakau" (with Rudolph Schildkraut); screenplay: Felix Salten) – also actor)
* 1913: "Tangofieber"

* 1913/14: "Die Firma heiratet" (with Ernst Lubitsch, Ressel Orla)
* 1914: "Fräulein Leutnant" / "Fräulein Feldgrau" (also screenplay together with Walter Turszinsky)
* 1914: "Die Marketenderin" (with Else Eckersberg; also screenplay together with Arno Arndt)
* 1914: "Der Stolz der Firma. Die Geschichte eines Lehrlings" (with Ernst Lubitsch)

* 1915: "Der Barbier von Flimersdorf" (with Oscar Sabo) – also screenplay
* 1915: "Berlin im Kriegsjahr" (documentary film produced by Erich Pommer on commission from the "Verein der Zentralstelle für den Fremdenverkehr")
* 1915: "Carl und Carla" (with Lisa Weise)
* 1915: "Frau Annas Pilgerfahrt. Episode aus dem Wien-Berliner Leben 1914/15" – also screenplay together with Julius Wilhelm, and production

* 1916: "Sami, der Seefahrer"
* 1916: "Ein Zirkusmädel"

* 1917: "Albert läßt sich scheiden"
* 1917: "Doktor Lauffen"

* 1917: "Az elátkozott család"
* 1917: "Fabricius úr leánya"
* 1917: "Fekete gyémántok"

* 1918: "A Gazdag szegények"
* 1918: "A Szerelem bolondjai"

* 1919: "Die Himmelskönigin" / "Du meine Himmelskönigin" (with Margarete Schön, Gustav Adolf Semler) – also screenplay
* 1919: "Die Pflicht zu leben"
* 1919: "Prinzessin Tatjana oder Wenn ein Weib den Weg verliert"

* 1919/20: "Der gelbe Tod – 1. Teil" (with Gustav Adolf Semler, Rosa Valetti)
* 1919/20: "Der gelbe Tod – 2. Teil" (with Ernst Deutsch, Margarete Schön, Gustav Adolf Semler)
* 1920: "Anständige Frauen"
* 1920: "Die Augen der Welt" (with Conrad Veidt) – also screenplay together with Ruth Goetz, and production
* 1920: "Das Götzenbild der Wahrheit"
* 1920: "Der langsame Tod" / "Die nach Liebe schmachten" (with Lucie Höflich, Eduard von Winterstein) – also screenplay together with Ruth Goetz, production
* 1920: "Die Sippschaft" - also screenplay together with Ruth Goetz, production
* 1920/21: "Das Haus der Qualen" – also screenplay and production
* 1921: "Das gestohlene Millionenrezept" – also production
* 1921: "Landstraße und Großstadt" / "Musikanten des Lebens" (with Carola Toelle, Fritz Kortner, Conrad Veidt) – also production
* 1921: "Der Liebling der Frauen" – also production
* 1921: "Perlen bedeuten Tränen" / "Tragische Abenteuer des Japaners Dr. Rao" (with Albert Steinrück, Aud Egede-Nissen)
* 1921: "Unrecht Gut"

* 1921/22: "Menschenopfer" (with Hans Albers)
* 1922: "Lumpaci Vagabundus" / "Der böse Geist Lumpaci Vagabundus" (with Hans Albers) – also screenplay

* 1924: "Soll und Haben" (with Theodor Loos, Olga Tschechowa) - also screenplay, together with Karl Figdor based on the novel by Gustav Freytag

* 1925: "Nick, der König der Chauffeure"
* 1925: "Die vertauschte Braut" (with Ida Wüst)

* 1926: "Die dritte Eskadron" (with Claire Rommer, Ralph Arthur Roberts, Camilla Spira) – also screenplay together with Bobby E. Lüthge
* 1926: "Mikoschs letztes Abenteuer" – also screenplay
* 1926: "Wenn der junge Wein blüht" – also screenplay, together with Max Jungk based on a story by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

* 1927: "Es zogen drei Burschen …" / "Drei Seelen – ein Gedanke" / "Eine verliebte Garnison" (with Hans Albers, Hertha von Walther)
* 1927: "Die Pflicht zu schweigen" (with Gustav Fröhlich, Kurt Gerron) – also screenplay

* 1928: "Kaczmarek"

* 1928/29: "Der Zigeunerprimas" – also screenplay

* 1929: "Drei machen ihr Glück" / "Teure Heimat" (with Renate Müller, Hans Brausewetter, Hans Albers, Lotte Werkmeister) - produced by Erich Engels
* 1929: "Ruhiges Heim mit Küchenbenutzung" / "Das Mädel von der Operette" (with Henry Bender, Ida Wüst, Albert Paulig) – also screenplay, together with Bobby E. Lüthge

* 1930: "Die Firma heiratet" (with Ralph Arthur Roberts, Charlotte Ander, Oskar Karlweis, Ida Wüst, Theo Lingen, Julius Falkenstein, Trude Westerberg)

Other

* 1910: "Hexenlied" (with Henny Porten; directed by Franz Porten) – actor
* 1910: "Die Vernunft des Herzens" (directed by Charles Decroix) – actor
* 1910: "Pro patria. Ein Unterseebootsfilm" (with Leo Peukert; directed by Charles Decroix) – director's assistant
* 1910/11: "Vater und Sohn" (directed by Walter Schmidthässler) – actor
* 1911: "Das Herz einer Gattin" (directed by Charles Decroix) – actor
* 1913/14: "Eine venezianische Nacht" (directed by Max Reinhardt) – director's assistant

* 1932: "Im Bann des Eulenspiegels" (directed by Frank Wisbar) – "collective direction", together with Herbert Ephraim
* 1935: "J'aime toutes les femmes" (directed by Carl Lamač) – production assistant

Notes

External links

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* [http://www.cinegraph.de/etc/ateliers/muto.html Short article about the "Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH" ("Muto")] incl photo of Carl Wilhelm
* [http://www.deutsches-filminstitut.de/dt2tp0071.htm Deutsches Filminstitut: photo of Carl Wilhelm]

ources

* Fritz, Walter, 1996. "Im Kino erlebe ich die Welt – 100 Jahre Kino und Film in Österreich." Verlag Christian Brandstätter: Vienna. ISBN 3-85447-661-2