Karl Hasselmann Explained

Karl Hasselmann
Birth Date:	8 May 1883
Birth Place:	Hanover, Lower Saxony German Empire
Death Place:	West Berlin, West Germany
Occupation:	Cinematographer
Yearsactive:	1906–1952

Karl Hasselmann (8 May 1883 – 8 June 1966) was a German cinematographer who worked on over a hundred films during a long career. He collaborated with Ewald André Dupont on a number of productions for Gloria Film such as Whitechapel. He worked on eleven films with Karl Grune.^[1]

Hasselmann was born on 8 May 1883 in Hanover; he died at the age of 83 on 8 June 1966 in West Berlin.

Selected filmography

• The White Roses of Ravensberg (1919)
• Alkohol (1919)
• Whitechapel (1920)
• Hearts are Trumps (1920)
• The White Peacock (1920)
• The Vulture Wally (1921)
• The Conspiracy in Genoa (1921)
• Murder Without Cause (1921)
• Man Overboard (1921)
• Night and No Morning (1921)
• The Hunt for the Truth (1921)
• Othello (1922)
• A Dying Nation (1922)
• The Earl of Essex (1922)
• The Street (1923)
• Arabella (1924)
• Garragan (1924)
• Op Hoop van Zegen (1924)
• Jealousy (1925)
• Slums of Berlin (1925)
• The Iron Bride (1925)
• Comedians (1925)
• The Brothers Schellenberg (1926)
• Children of No Importance (1926)
• People to Each Other (1926)
• Sister Veronika (1927)
• The Catwalk (1927)
• Sir or Madam (1928)
• Lemke's Widow (1928)
• Under the Lantern (1928)
• Eva in Silk (1928)
• Katharina Knie (1929)
• The Convict from Istanbul (1929)
• Painted Youth (1929)
• Children of the Street (1929)
• The Man with the Frog (1929)
• Checkmate (1931)
• Between Night and Dawn (1931)
• Different Morals (1931)
• Trenck (1932)
• The Roberts Case (1933)
• What Men Know (1933)
• The Legacy of Pretoria (1934)
• The Brenken Case (1934)
• Inspector of the Red Cars (1935)
• The Hour of Temptation (1936)
• The Accusing Song (1936)
• Madame Bovary (1937)
• The Secret Lie (1938)
• Men, Animals and Sensations (1938)
• Woman in the River (1939)
• The Girl at the Reception (1940)
• Clarissa (1941)
• Wild Bird (1943)
• Quartet of Five (1949)

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

Notes and References

1. Bergfelder & Bock p. 175