Georg Wilhelm Pabst

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Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Born August 27 1885(1885-08-27)
Image:Austria-Hungary flag 1869-1918.svg  Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic)
Died May 29 1967 (aged 81)
Vienna, Austria
Years active 1901 - 1957
Spouse(s) Gertrude Hennings 1924 - 1967

Georg Wilhelm Pabst (August 25, 1885 - May 29, 1967) was an Austrian film director. Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (today's Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic), the son of a railroad employee.

Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began. He was interned there near Brest until 1919.

Some of his most famous films concern the plight of women in German society, including Joyless Street (1925) with Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen, The Loves of Jeanne Ney (1927) with Brigitte Helm, Pandora's Box (1928), and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), the last two starring American actress Louise Brooks. He also co-directed with Arnold Fanck a mountain film entitled The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) starring Leni Riefenstahl.

After the coming of sound he made a trilogy of films that secured his reputation Westfront 1918 (1930), The Threepenny Opera (1931) (based on the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical), and Kameradschaft (1931). Pabst also filmed three versions of Pierre Benoit's novel L'Atlantide in 1932, in German, English, and French, titled Die Herrin von Atlantis, The Mistress of Atlantis, and L'Atlantide, respectively. In 1933, Pabst directed Don Quixote in three versions, once again, German, English, and French.

After making A Modern Hero (1934) in the U.S. and Mademoiselle Docteur (1936) in France, Pabst returned to Austria and Germany in 1938, he later claimed, to take care of family business. He made two films during the Nazi period, Komödianten (1941) and Paracelsus (1943).

In 1953, Pabst directed four opera productions in Italy: La forza del destino for the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence (conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos, the cast included Renata Tebaldi, Fedora Barbieri, Mario del Monaco, Aldo Protti, Cesare Siepi), and a few weeks later, for the Arena di Verona Festival, a spectacular Aïda, with Maria Callas in the title role (conducted by Tullio Serafin, with del Monaco), Il trovatore and again La forza del destino.[1]

Pabst died in Vienna, Austria and was interred at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna.

Contents

[edit] Filmography, as director, includes

  • Der Schatz (1923)
  • Gräfin Donelli (1924)
  • Die freudlose Gasse (1925)
  • Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (1926)
  • Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926)
  • Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927)
  • Abwege (1928)
  • Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü (1929)
  • Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1929)
  • Die Büchse der Pandora (1929), aka Pandora's Box, aka Lulu
  • Skandal um Eva (1930)
  • Westfront 1918 (1930)
  • Kameradschaft (1931)
  • Die 3groschenoper (1931)
  • Die Herrin von Atlantis (1932) three versions, German, French, and English
  • Du haut en bas (1933)
  • Don Quixote (1933) three versions, German, French, and English; music by Jacques Ibert
  • A Modern Hero (1934)
  • Mademoiselle Docteur (1936)
  • Le Drame de Shanghaï (1938)
  • Jeunes filles en détresse (1939)
  • Komödianten (1941)
  • Paracelsus (1943)
  • Der Fall Molander (1945)
  • Der Prozeß (1948)
  • Geheimnisvolle Tiefe (1949)
  • Cose da pazzi (1953)
  • La voce del silenzio (1953)
  • Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr (1954)
  • Es geschah am 20. Juli (1955)
  • Der letzte Akt (1955)
  • Durch die Wälder, durch die Auen (1956)
  • Rosen für Bettina (1956)

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,818661,00.html Time Magazin Article about Pabst's Aida for the Arena di Verona, August 10, 1953

[edit] Further Reading

  • PABST, Georg Wilhelm, « Servitude et grandeur de Hollywood », Le rôle intellectuel du cinéma, Paris, SDN-Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle, 1937, pp.251-255.
  • AMENGUAL, Barthélémy, G.W. Pabst, Paris, Seghers, 1966
  • ATWELL, Lee, G.W. Pabst, Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1977
  • MITRY, Jean, Histoire du cinéma. Art et industrie, 5 volumes, Paris, Editions Universitaires - J.P. Delarge, 1967-1980
  • KRACAUER, Siegfried, De Caligari à Hitler. Une histoire psychologique du cinéma allemand, Paris, Flammarion, 1987²
  • The Films of G.W. Pabst. An extraterritorial cinema, edited by Eric Rentschler, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1990
  • BAXTER, John, "G.W. Pabst" in International Directory of Films and Filmmakers, Chicago, 1990, pp.376-378
  • G.W. Pabst, herausgegeben von Wolfgang Jacobsen, Berlin, Argen, 1997
  • GROPPALI, Enrico, Georg W. Pabst, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1983
  • VANDEN BERGHE, Marc, La mémoire impossible. Westfront 1918 de G.W. Pabst. Grande Guerre, soldats, automates. Le film et sa problématique vus par la 'Petite Illustration' (1931), Bruxelles, 2001 - this text is available online on www.art-chitecture.net/publications.php[1]

[edit] External links

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