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The mute Isar cowboys from Harthausen

2022-04-16T08:06:31.105Z


The mute Isar cowboys from Harthausen Created: 04/16/2022, 10:00 am By: Bert Brosch The Schilling Inn became the “Capitol Cinema” for the filming of a Simmel novel. © Katzendobler When "Black Jack" trotted across the prairie near Harthausen, he received puzzled looks. During the silent film era, Westerns were filmed in the village, it was important for the German film industry. Harthausen – T


The mute Isar cowboys from Harthausen

Created: 04/16/2022, 10:00 am

By: Bert Brosch

The Schilling Inn became the “Capitol Cinema” for the filming of a Simmel novel.

© Katzendobler

When "Black Jack" trotted across the prairie near Harthausen, he received puzzled looks.

During the silent film era, Westerns were filmed in the village, it was important for the German film industry.

Harthausen

– The story of the southern Fortwirt is closely linked to the “film town” of Harthausen, which also includes the Möschenfeld estate and the forester and which today has a little over 1,000 inhabitants.

The property was built in 1862 by Georg and Theresia Zellermayr.

Son Dominikus operated a forest and steam saw and in 1863 received the license to serve beer and to operate the tavern.

Today, Lukas and Hanna, the fifth generation of the Zellermayr family, work as innkeepers at the forester's, where a hotel has also been run since 1992.

Camera technology pioneers

Born in Austria in 1898, August Arnold was a pioneer in the field of camera technology.

He had the technical know-how, his school friend Robert Richter provided the necessary finances for the company “Arnold & Richter” (Arri), which was founded in Munich in 1917.

In 1914, the two of them converted a hand-operated cinema projector to an electric motor and added a home-made arc lamp as a light source.

With the film pioneer Martin Kopp, they were allowed to work as copiers and shoot themselves.

In 1915 they met Peter Ostermayr, where they learned the technique of making feature films.

Neither of them were of legal age when they founded their company in 1917, initially for "filming" and "running a photo and film chemical laboratory".

Money was earned through camera and mechanical work as well as film screenings.

They built their first copying machine to finally be able to copy films themselves.

They tinkered with cameras to make them handier.

As freelance cameramen, they used these cameras to film so-called “Isar westerns” around Munich, in the Mangfall and Isar valleys and near Harthausen.

The silent films enthralled audiences and bore martial titles such as “The Black Jack”, “Revenge in the Gold Valley” or “The Death Cowboy”.

Quite a few walkers were shocked when the fully costumed extras crossed the street with their horses.

"Arri" became known through the development of the mirror shutter in film cameras, first presented in 1937 in the "Arriflex", which over the decades became "the" film camera worldwide.

The forester's estate in 1959: view of the north-east side.

In front the road to Harthausen.

In the background today's state road to Putzbrunn.

© mm

In 1922, August Arnold bought a piece of forest and meadow land from the forester, which is still Arri's property today.

The previous owners, a Schwabing family, were paid by him in dollars.

For several years, as Bruno Zellermayr senior remembers, traffic instructional films were made.

"August sat in our kitchen for hours every Saturday, that was the central meeting point in the house at the time," reports Zellermayr.

Arnold lived with his family because they were bombed out in Schwabing, with the forester in a wooden house that still stands today.

A film warehouse was built on the Arri site when the war began in 1939. Valuable contemporary documentaries were stored there, as were parts of the Reichsfilmarchiv (RFA) from Berlin-Babelsberg.

A planned large film depot in the forest prevented the events of the war.

For the Simmel film adaptation, the water tower became the Wimpy Snack Bar and Restaurant in 1982.

© Katzendobler

Decades later, in 1982 and 1983, Harthausen once again became the focus of the film industry.

The Bavaria Filmstudios filmed the Simmel novel “Hurra, wir nochleben” for ZDF.

For director Peter Zadek, Harthausen, among other places, offered the ideal setting: the water tower became the "Wimpy - Snack Bar", a cottage garden was laid out in front of the "Balthuber" property on the main street, the Dinglreiter-Hof right next to it became a "Beat- scales".

The former "Gasthaus Schilling", now a bed and breakfast, was made into the "Capitol cinema".

The film ran under the title "That 50's Show".

Source: merkur

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