Karl Heinz Martin (1)

Karl Heinz 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). wiki

Director (16 credits)
1939 Verdacht auf Ursula
1938 The Jumping Jack
1938 Adresse unbekannt
1938 Concert in Tirol
1937 The Happiest Married Couple in Vienna (finished)
1937 Millionäre
1937 La voz del corazón
1936 Thou Art My Joy
1936 The Paris Adventure
1935 Anschlag auf Schweda
1935 Punks Arrives from America
1934 La Paloma. Ein Lied der Kameradschaft
1921 Die Perle des Orients
1921 Das Haus zum Mond
1920 Die Verwandlung
1920 From Morn to Midnight
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