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Walter Ruttmann

Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941)[1] was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger. He is best known for directing the semi-documentary 'city symphony' silent film, with orchestral score by Edmund Meisel, in 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis. His audio montage Wochenende (Weekend) (1930) is considered a major contribution in the development of audio plays.

Walter Ruttmann

(1887-12-28)28 December 1887

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

15 July 1941(1941-07-15) (aged 53)

Berlin, Germany

Film director

1921–1941

Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt

Culture and Media[edit]

Segments from Ruttmann's experimental films Lichtspiel: Opus II (1923) and Lichtspiel: Opus IV (1925) are used in the credits of the German neo-noir television series Babylon Berlin.[10] Soundtracks to sped-up versions of Lichtspiel: Opus I[11] and Opus IV[12] have been proposed in 2023.

Lichtspiel: Opus I (1920)[14][15][16][17]

[13]

Der Sieger (1922)

Das Wunder (1922)

Lichtspiel: Opus II (1922)[3][19]

[18]

Lichtspiel: Opus III (1924, with Lore Leudesdorff)[21][22][16]

[20]

Lichtspiel: (1925, with Lore Leudesdorff)[20][23][16]

Opus IV

Das wiedergefundene Paradies (1925)

Der Aufstieg (1926)

Spiel der Wellen (1926)

Dort wo der Rhein... (1927)

(1927)[16]

Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt

(Melodie der Welt) (1929)[16]

Melody of the World

(1930) [an experimental film with sound only, no image]

Wochenende

(1931)

Feind im Blut

(1931)

In der Nacht

(1933)

Steel

Blut und Boden - Grundlagen zum neuen Reich

(1934)

Altgermanische Bauernkultur

(1935)

Metall des Himmels

(1936)

Schiff in Not

(1937)

Mannesmann

(1938)

Henkel, ein deutsches Werk in seiner Arbeit

(1940)

Waffenkammern Deutschlands

(1940)

Deutsche Panzer

Krebs (1941)

Cowan, Michael. Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-garde-Advertising-Modernity. Amsterdam, NL: Amsterdam University Press, 2014.  9789089645852

ISBN

Dombrug, Adrianus van. Walter Ruttmann in het beginsel. Purmerend, NL: J. Muusses, 1956.

Goergen, Jeanpaul. Walter Ruttmann: Eine Dokumentation. Berlin: Freunde der deutschen Kinemathek, 1989.  9783927876002

ISBN

Rogers, Holly and Jeremy Barham The Music and Sound of Experimental Film. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.  9780190469900

ISBN

Quaresima, Leonard, editor. Walter Ruttmann: Cinema, pittura, ars acustica. Calliano (Trento), Italy: Manfrini, 1994.  9788870245035

ISBN

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