Georg Muschner Explained

Georg Muschner
Birth Date:	12 June 1885
Death Place:	West Berlin, West Germany
Occupation:	Cinematographer
Yearsactive:	1920–1939

Georg Muschner (12 June 1885 – 17 May 1971) was a German cinematographer. He worked on over sixty productions during his career in the Weimar Republic, Austria, and Nazi Germany. Muschner originally worked as a portrait photographer, before entering the film industry during the silent era. He worked on several Harry Piel films, including His Greatest Bluff.^[1] During the 1930s he often worked with the director Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla.

Selected filmography

• The Flying Car (1920)
• The Lost House (1922)
• Rivals (1923)
• Judith (1923)
• The Last Battle (1923)
• Women's Morals (1923)
• Dangerous Clues (1924)
• The Fake Emir (1924)
• By Order of Pompadour (1924)
• The Man Without Nerves (1924)
• A Dangerous Game (1924)
• Zigano (1925)
• Adventure on the Night Express (1925)
• The Dealer from Amsterdam (1925)
• Swifter Than Death (1925)
• Eyes Open, Harry! (1926)
• The Black Pierrot (1926)
• His Greatest Bluff (1927)
• Night of Mystery (1927)
• The Girl Without a Homeland (1927)
• What a Woman Dreams of in Springtime (1929)
• Flachsmann the Educator (1930)
• Rag Ball (1930)
• The Citadel of Warsaw (1930)
• Pension Schöller (1930)
• Such a Greyhound (1931)
• Errant Husbands (1931)
• The Battle of Bademunde (1931)
• Mrs. Lehmann's Daughters (1932)
• Our Emperor (1933)
• Dance Music (1935)
• Blood Brothers (1935)
• Across the Desert (1936)
• The Violet of Potsdamer Platz (1936)
• The Mysterious Mister X (1936)
• Meiseken (1937)

Bibliography

• Chandler, Charlotte. Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography. Simon and Schuster, 2011.

Notes and References

1. Chandler p.272