Karlheinz Martin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karlheinz Martin

Stage and film director

Date of Birth: 06-May-1886

Place of Birth: Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 13-Jan-1948

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Karlheinz Martin (May 6, 1886 – January 13, 1948) was a German stage and film director, best known for his expressionist productions. After enjoying success with experimental productions in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg, Martin went to Berlin, where he premiered Ernst Toller's anti-war drama, Transfiguration (Die Wandlung) on September 30, 1919.
Performed in a hall seating fewer than 300 spectators, the production used the intimacy of the space to drive home the horrors of Toller's script.
The sets were jagged flats placed against blackness, and lit with harsh white spotlights.
Scenes ended in blackouts not, as was customary at the time, with the curtain falling.
Fritz Kortner became famous for his intense portrayal of the young hero.
Martin turned to film in 1920, when he directed a cinematic adaptation of one of the most celebrated expressionist dramas, Georg Kaiser's From Morn to Midnight (Von morgens bis mitternachts) with actor Ernst Deutsch as the Cashier who embezzles money from a bank and goes on a desperate search for meaning in his life in a nightmarish metropolis.
After World War II, Martin revived Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera in Berlin, and premiered Georg Kaiser's pacifist drama, The Soldier Tanaka (Der Soldat Tanaka).

Abraham Pisarek (1901–1983)
Description	Jewish-German photographer
Date of birth/death	24 December 1901	24 April 1983
Location of birth/death	Przedbórz	West Berlin
Work period	From 1929 on; worked also during WWII; from the end of the 1950s on nearly exclusively theatre photography.
Work location	Berlin
Authority control	: Q330503 VIAF: 54800253 ISNI: 0000 0000 2523 7400 LCCN: n79122828 GND: 11250776X SUDOC: 146380460 WorldCat