Otto Lehmann

Otto Lehmann (22 January 1889 in Berlin – 28 April 1968 in Munich) was a German movie producer.

Career

Lehmann studied to be a teacher at the Lutheran seminary in Neuzelle. Upon graduation, he taught at primary and middle schools.

1925 Born in Berlin, joined as production manager for film and worked in that capacity, among other things for Gerhard Lamprecht's elaborate history paintings arc Old Fritz, the early Conrad Veidt-talkies The man who committed the murder and I and the Empress, the musical blockbuster Walzerkrieg from the hand of Ludwig Berger, Reinhold Schünzel's divine comedy Amphitryon and most recently, in 1936, directed by Johannes Meyer, again for a cinematic homage to the Prussian King Frederick the Great, Fridericus.

In 1936, he became popular in the popular play The Violet of Potsdamer Platz to the production manager from 1938 until the war ended Lehmann worked for the Terra as a manufacturing or production group leader. In this capacity he was also responsible for the production of Jud Süß, the most notorious anti-Semitic film of the Third Reich.

After the war, Lehmann acted for the East German DEFA as joint manager of the dubbing division of the old Tobis. His work as a production manager in 1947 he put away for a variety of West German firms, 1952-1955 exclusively for Carlton-film of the Munich-based producer Günther Stapenhorst.

At the age of 70, Lehmann ended his career in film production and worked until the fall of 1967 as production manager for television. He also occupied an official post, he was sometimes the first Chairperson of the Association of German production manager eV.

He is not to be confused with another Otto Lehmann, who briefly worked during the Second World War, as an actor in Swiss films.

Filmography

1936: Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz 1937: Meiseken 1937: An Enemy of the People 1937: Tango Notturno 1938: Secret Code LB 17 1938: Freight from Baltimore 1938: Liebelei und Liebe 1939: Escape in the Dark 1939: Central Rio 1939: Kornblumenblau 1939: Uproar in Damascus 1940: Jud Süß 1941: Leichte Muse 1941: Sein Sohn 1942: Front Theatre 1942/43: Music in Salzburg (UA: 1944) 1943/44: Seinerzeit zu meiner Zeit 1944: The Green Salon 1944: Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen (unfinished film) 1947/48: Frauen, Masken und Dämonen (Documentary film) 1949: After the Rain Comes Sunshine 1950: Two Times Lotte 1951: Bluebeard 1952: The Forester's Daughter 1952: Alraune 1952: The White Horse Inn 1953: The Immortal Vagabond 1953: The Last Waltz 1954: Cabaret 1955: Königswalzer 1956: Between Time and Eternity 1957: 1958: Ist Mama nicht fabelhaft? 1959: Liebe, Luft und lauter Lügen