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  filmhistoriker.de
Die Bauten von Albin Grau dürfen als wesentliches Stimmungsaggregat nicht unerwähnt bleiben.
Jede Geste, jedes Kostüm (um 1840 herum), jeder Schritt und jede Bewegung muß nach den Gesetzen psychologischer Wirkung auf den Zuschauer abgezirkelt sein.
Grau und Murnau leisten dabei eine beachtenswerte Filigranarbeit, ohne das Großzügige ihres Werkes außer acht zu lassen.
www.filmhistoriker.de /films/nosferatu.htm   (4248 words)

  
  Albin Grau
One example in particular was the cryptic contract that Count Orlock and Knock exchanged, which was filled in Enochian, hermetic and alchemical symbols.
Grau was also a strong influence on Orlock's verminous and emaciated look.
Before Grau and Murnau collaborated on Nosferatu, Grau was planning to create several movies devoted to the occult and supernatural through his studio, Prana Film.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/al/albin_grau.html   (178 words)

  
 Walt Disney Concert Hall - Nosferatu, A Symphony in Silence
Murnau and designer Albin Grau recreated the world as seen by the 19th-century German Romantic painters.
The designer, Albin Grau, was obsessed with the occult and a friend of the master of the fl arts, Alistair Crowley, then dubbed 'the most evil man in the world'.
Grau made frequent use of cabalistic and astrological symbols in the film: the opening title shows an evil eye.
wdch.laphil.com /misc/nosferatu.cfm   (933 words)

  
 SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE
Albin takes a pipe from another man and smokes what's presumably some form of drugs, while we see a needle go into another man's arm, resulting in that man being high from morphine.
Albin and Fritz learn of Murnau's deal with Schreck and don't do anything to stop it or inform Greta, but instead help drug her to make her more compliant for a scene that needs to be shot.
As Henrick and Albin talk about the most wondrous thing they ever saw, the former states that he once saw Greta naked.
www.screenit.com /movies/2000/shadow_of_the_vampire.html   (1639 words)

  
 Albin Grau | DBpedia.org
Grau was also a strong influence on Orlok's verminous and emaciated look.
Before Grau and Murnau collaborated on Nosferatu, Grau was planning to create several movies devoted to the occult and supernatural through his studio, Prana Film.
Since Nosferatu was a loose and unauthorized translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula Prana had to declare bankruptcy in order to evade infringement lawsuits.
dbpedia.org /resource/Albin_Grau   (410 words)

  
 The DVD Journal: Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Murnau and his producer/art director Albin Grau took their cameras and crew to the western Tatras in Slovakia (Czechoslovakia at that time).
The rugged mountain region surrounding remote Orava castle, used for Orlok's lair, is desolate and Lovecraftian, befitting its distorted inhabitant.
Albin Grau's production art, costume designs and sketches are beautifully evocative on their own, and it's easy to see how Murnau was influenced by Grau's work.
www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/n/nosferatu.shtml   (2962 words)

  
 Albin Grau
Der Artikel Albin Grau gehört zur Kategorie: Filmproduzent, Mann, Deutscher, Geboren 1884, Gestorben 1972
Diskussion der Autoren über den Artikel: Albin Grau
Während Graus Tod im KZ Buchenwald häufig im IT sowie in Printmedien zu finden ist, war mir diese Variante noch nie untergekommen.
www.xn--enzyklopdie-s8a.de /Albin_Grau.html   (380 words)

  
 Fronte del pubblico
Albin Grau nasce a Schönefeld, non lontano da Lipsia, il 13 giugno 1884 e scompare il 27 marzo 1971.
Grau non si dà per vinto e produce un nuovo film, Schatten, con la nuova società di produzione Pan; nonostante il film venga accolto molto favorevolmente dalla critica, non ottiene un successo di pubblico sufficiente a garantire continuità alla società di produzione.
Grau parla di ‘quelle ombre dello schermo che affascinano tutti’ e dice che ‘in futuro esisteranno due forme di cinema: il film sensazionalista che cerca il consenso delle masse e un nuovo tipo di film, con un nuovo stile, la cui natura profonda risiede nel mondo dell’occulto e del fantastico.
www.cinetecadibologna.it /programmi/06pubblico/film/ombre.htm   (1025 words)

  
 last minute Albin_Grau - last-minute-report.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Albin Grau was an artist, architect and occultist, and the producer and production designer for F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.
Albin Grau died in October 1942, at Buchenwald concentration camp; Thuringia, Germany.
Albin Grau was one of the main characters in the fictionalized movie account of the filming of Nosferatu, titled Shadow of the Vampire (2000), directed by American filmmaker E.
www.last-minute-report.com /Albin_Grau   (374 words)

  
 Grau
Rear Admiral Miguel Grau Seminario (July 27, 1834 - October 8, 1879) was a renowned Peruvian naval officer and hero of the Naval Battle of Angamos during the War of the Pacific (1879-1884).
Captain Grau played an important role in the sea campaign by interdicting Chilean lines of communication and supply, damaging, capturing or destroying several enemy vessels and bombarding port installations.
Admiral Grau was killed by an armour-piercing shell fired upon Huáscar, during the Naval Battle of Angamos on October 8 1879.
www.kopete.org /Grau.html   (392 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Grau's faith in the supernatural was demonstrated by his founding of Prana-Film on a paltry 20,000 marks, a pathetic sum even before the German economy was beset by runaway inflation.
Grau's artistic and mystic aspirations made Bram Stoker's Dracula a logical choice, but the novel was still protected by copyright.
Grau himself created a series of atmospheric production sketches to illustrate the sort of imagery he was after and unwittingly guaranteed himself a footnote in cinema history by hiring a tyro director named F. Murnau.
www.lycos.com /info/nosferatu.html   (771 words)

  
 Symbolism in the film, Nosferatu (1922) : Figure 12.
Figure 12: The all-seeing eye, surrounded by an owl, stag, scorpion, hound, lion and presumed hermetic symbols.
The letter from the vampire, Count Orlock, incorporates many hermetic symbols and John Gottowt’s character, Professor Bulwer, is described in the credits as a Paracelsian.
Prana-Film, created by Enrico Dieckmann and Albin Grau in 1921, was intended for a series of films on the mystical and supernatural but went bankrupt, leaving Nosferatu as its only legacy.
freemasonry.bcy.ca /anti-masonry/all_seeing_eye/nosferatu/nosferatu01.html   (158 words)

  
 Le Cinéma Expressionniste Allemand - les décorateurs : Albin GRAU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Grau est l'auteur d'un pamphlet sur l'utilisation de la couleur dans les décors et de l'éclairage dans les films en noir et blanc.
Albin Grau s'est fait connaître par son travail sur le Nosferatu de F. Murnau.
Arthur Robison, Albin Grau, Ernst Moritz Engert», Trafic, n°33, printemps 2000.
cinema.expressionnisme.bifi.fr /reperes/decorateurs/grau.php   (269 words)

  
 WWW.SHROUDEATER.COM - Vampire of Progatza
According to Grau, he was told the following tale in 1916 while he was in Serbia as a soldier.
Grau then quotes a short bit from what is said to be a transcript of the official report about the case:
Our source, Albin Grau, is the artist who designed the set and costumes for Friederich Wilhelm Murnau's vampire film "Nosferatu".
www.shroudeater.com /cprogatz.htm   (493 words)

  
 Home Theater & Sound -- DVD Review -- Shadow of the Vampire -- ***1/2
His producer, Albin Grau (Udo Kier), wishes he would shoot within the confines of a studio rather than the more costly and distant location of Czechoslovakia.
Unlike the spit-polished persona of an aristocratic Count Dracula, Katz’s vampire isn’t living high on the blood of mortals; he is a lonely ghoul, longing for the warmth of the sun and forced to suck on the lifeblood of small vermin.
In one scene, a drunken Albin witnesses Shreck’s feral nature as he violently pulls a bat from flight and viciously feeds on its blood.
www.hometheatersound.com /dvd/shadowofthevampire.htm   (933 words)

  
 Saturn Gnosis - Saturngnosis - Gregor A. Gregorius - Albin Grau - Eugen Grosche
Saturn Gnosis - Saturngnosis - Gregor A. Gregorius - Albin Grau - Eugen Grosche
Sie enthalten nicht nur anspruchsvolle Aufsätze, auch von Nichtmitgliedern - beispielsweise auch einen Aufsatz von Crowley - sondern auch sehr schöne Graphiken, unter anderem des bekannten Ufa-Bühnenbildners und Bildhauers Albin Grau (Fra.
Albin Grau war Mitglied in der Fraternitas Saturni (Fra.
www.fraternitas.de /kunst/03.htm   (367 words)

  
 Albin Grau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Discuss this name with other users on IMDb message board for Albin Grau
Find where Albin Grau is credited alongside another name
You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0336057   (150 words)

  
 Fraternitas Saturni -- Eugen Grosche, Gregor A Gregorius, Pansophia, Albin Grau, Guido Wolther, Walter Jantschik, GOTOS
Fraternitas Saturni -- Eugen Grosche, Gregor A Gregorius, Pansophia, Albin Grau, Guido Wolther, Walter Jantschik, GOTOS
A lot of unveiling documents and photographs about the Fraternitas Saturni can be found at Pictures + Documents
Albin Grau: Liber I Das Buch der Null-Stunde, 1928
user.cyberlink.ch /~koenig/saturn.htm   (770 words)

  
 Movies - Albin Grau
One example in particular was the cryptic contract that Count Orlok and Knock exchanged, which was filled in Enochian, hermetic and alchemical symbols.
Grau was also a strong influence on Orlok's verminous and emaciated look.
Albin Grau died in October 1942, at Buchenwald concentration camp; Thuringia, Germany.
listing-index.ebay.com /movies/Albin_Grau.html   (258 words)

  
 Nosferatu
Dispatched to a remote village as part of what he describes as "a vermin-extermination commando", he's billeted with an old peasant who tells him the story of his father who, killed in a blood-feud, was buried without sacraments and haunted the village as a vampire.
The peasant even shows Grau an official paper about his father's disinterment in 1884, where the body is discovered perfectly preserved except for two front teeth now protruding over the lower lip.
Albin Grau may link Murnau with Alfred Kubin and such Prague Gothic writers as Gustav Meyrink and Franz Kafka, but he was an outsider to the film industry, while Galeen and Wagner belonged to one or other of the production units that existed at Ufa under Erich Pommer.
personal.uncc.edu /rrussi/courses/fall2002/germanfilm/nosferatu2.htm   (3769 words)

  
 Nosferatu
Nosferatu was the brainstorm of "ardent spiritualist", Albin Grau, whose entirely recognizable adaption of the famous story intended to evade this copyright.
Her lawsuit almost succeeded in driving a fatal stake through the heart of Nosferatu, as she demanded (unsuccessfully) every print be destroyed.
Grau's production designs lavished attention on details like the arcane symbols used in a letter Count Orlock uses as an oracle, as well as the vampire's make-up.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDNosferatu.htm   (1072 words)

  
 Nosferatu:  Harmony of Horror
Eighty years and the development of technologies cannot diminish the powers of Count Orlok, the vampire-- the shadow of Nosferatu still weaves its spell over the audience.
Albin Grau, a founder and backer of the company, was an artist/designer/architect with a personal background in spiritualism and the occult.
Grau’s vision contributed greatly to the production of Nosferatu, to the story, the set and the appearance of the vampire Orlok.
www.creaturescape.com /godsandmonsters/nosferatu.htm   (1332 words)

  
 Shadow of the Vampire - Movie Preview
I was given a great deal of freedom in terms of whom I should hire and the way the film would look and feel.”
And, in a wonderful instance of casting against type, he also hired Udo Kier, who has played nightmare figures in any number of recent movies (arthouse regulars will remember his sadist aboard the Russian boat in Breaking the Waves), to be the apparently straightest man on the set of Nosferatu, Murnau’s producer Albin Grau.
Before long, however, Kier had discovered that even Grau may not have been as straight as he seemed.
www.preview-online.com /july_august00/feature_articles/shadowofthevampire/shadow3.html   (438 words)

  
 Nosferatu page
Grau's abilities as an artist may be open to conjecture, but as a producer there is no doubt he was an idiot.
Grau labored over the document, filling it with obscure symbols and occult formulae incomprehensible to all but a few of his fellow thaumaturgists.
Worse, Grau can not be excused as being too artistically involved to be concerned about whether his source material might belong to someone else.
www.silentsaregolden.com /featurefolder4/Nosferatucommentary.html   (1654 words)

  
 nosferatu
Albin Grau, Produced by Enrico Dieckmann and Albin Grau,
While drawing on popular Vampire lore Murnau and Albin Grau also relied heavily and without permission on Stoker's novel.
They apparently had no intention of paying any royalties for their use of the novel as the basis for their screenplay.
www.massdist.com /dme/Nosferatu%20page.htm   (382 words)

  
 SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE
The film's producer, Albin Grau (Kier), is displeased by being kept out of the loop, but as long as they keep on time and budget he agrees to go along with Murnau's plan.
Greta (McCormack) and Gustav (Izzard), the lead actors, are also unhappy with the location and their roles, but Murnau is considered the best in the business, a man obsessed with creating a new film language, so they go along as well.
They believed Max was just an actor who took his role way too seriously, they had no idea they were on the brink of losing their lives.
crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsS/f_shadow_vampire.html   (1020 words)

  
 Schatten
Screenplay: Arthur Robison and Rudolf Schneider, from an idea by Albin Grau; photography: Fritz Arno Wagner; editor: Arthur Robison; production designer: Albin Grau; original accompanying score: Ernst Riege; costume designer: Albin Grau.
Schatten combines with great power and unity of purpose the talents of painter Albin Grau, the film's originator who also designed the sets and costumes, the cameraman Fritz Arno Wagner, and the director-scriptwriter Arthur Robison.
The action of the film is compressed to one evening and, apart from an introductory title and an explanation in the middle, the story is told in entirely visual terms.
www.filmreference.com /Films-Ro-Se/Schatten.html   (720 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Albin Grau": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
See all pages with references to "Albin Grau".
315 Vampires ALBIN GRAU (1921) J T HAPPENED DURING the war, in Serbia, in the winter of 1916.
Besides Grosche, who would go on to publish occult books (and doesnt that make one a celebrity?), another member, Albin Grau, was involved with UFA Productions.
amazon.com /phrase/Albin-Grau   (359 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Entertainment Guide
He demands that the film crew shoot at various locales including Czechoslovakia, to convey an external sense of doom and gloom.
And to the chagrin of his producer, Albin Grau (Udo Kier), he's extremely secretive about the actor who'll play the part of Count Orlock.
At that point, producer Albin speaks quietly to the director.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/entertainment/movies/reviews/shadowofthevampirehowe.htm   (759 words)

  
 blog.myspace.com/chith
He was largely responsible for the look and spirit of the film, including the sets, costumes, storyboards and promotional materials.
One example in particular was the cryptic contract that Count Orlok and Knock exchanged, which was filled in Enochian, hermetic and alchemical symbols.
If anyone has any further information or resources about either of these subjects would be greatly appreciated.
blog.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=10092533&blogID=155623916   (816 words)

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