Artur Berger

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Artur Semyonovich Berger (

set designer.[1]
He was active in Austria between 1920 and 1936, during which time he worked on about 30 feature films.

In 1936 Arthur Berger emigrated to the Soviet Union, where he continued to work on films until the early 1970s.[2]

Biography

Born Arthur Berger in

Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Wien, where he was trained in architecture by the highly respected Jugendstil architects Josef Hoffmann and Oskar Strnad
.

At first Berger worked with his brother Josef Berger and with Martin Ziegler on the residential building programme of

Die Sklavenkönigin (1924) and Salammbô (1924). He often worked with Emil Stepanek and Julius von Borsody. From the mid-1920s however he was involved almost entirely with undistinguished melodramas and light entertainment films. In 1926 he was responsible for the sets on Die Pratermizzi, and in 1927 for the scenery and buildings of the enormously successful Café Elektric directed by Gustav Ucicky. In 1931 he and Siegfried Bernfeld collaborated on the screenplay for Die große Liebe, the first film directed by Otto Preminger
.

In 1932, Berger created the sets for Die vom 17er Haus, an election advertising film on behalf of the

Austrian Fascist
government.

In 1933, Berger was co-founder of the Lehrinstitut für Tonfilmkunst ("Teaching Institute of Sound Film") in Vienna, where he also taught. He was also a member of the Österreichischer Werkbund ("Austrian Labour Union") and of the Bund österreichischer Künstler otherwise known as the Kunstschau/Sonderbund deutschösterreichischer Künstler ("Union of Austrian Artists"). In 1936, when under economic and political pressure from Nazi Germany the German prohibition against Jews and persons of Jewish descent working in the film industry was also adopted in Austria, Berger immigrated, via Prague and Paris, to Moscow, where he continued his career with Mosfilm as Artur Semyonovich Berger into the 1970s.

He died in Moscow in 1981.

Berger had two sons, Peter (died 2001) and Sascha (living in Moscow) who both worked as architects, in Austria and Russia (Moscow), and also two daughters, Marianne, (died 2009) and Vera, (died in October 2020 at age 102) in Wörgl, Tirol, Austria.

Filmography

Awards

  • 1968: Meritorious Artist of the
    Russian SFSR

References

  1. ISBN 978-1442268425
    .
  2. ^ Artur Berger, Kinorium, retrieved 10 April 2024

External links

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