Biography Biography Collaborators Workplaces Working method Film style Themes Biography - Extended Carl Theodor Dreyer is the most important director in Danish cinema. In international film history, too, he ranks as one of the greatest artists of all time. Born out of wedlock, Dreyer was adopted… Biography - short Film director, screenwriter, cinema manager. Born Copenhagen, 3 February 1889, died 20 March 1968. Director of 14 features and 8 shorts. Married Ebba Larsen (1888-1977) in 1911. Two children: Gunni… The Silent Dreyer Theme on Danish Silent Film about Dreyer's career and the significance of silent films for the development of his artistic ideas – for better or worse. The aviator Dreyer in his youth was a real daredevil. Obsessed with technology and speed, he was among the first people to fly as a passenger in an aeroplane, when, in June 1910, he made several turns at a… The Journalist Dreyer’s road to film went through journalism. He began his working life as a young reporter in 1909/1910-1915, before going into the film business. Later, in the years 1936-1941, when he had an… The script consultant Before he directed his first film, Dreyer spent five years in Nordisk Film’s script department, assessing submitted manuscripts and also doing some writing himself, mainly intertitles and programme… The Cinema Manager In 1952, when Carl Th. Dreyer took over from Hilmar Clausen as manager of the Dagmar Teateret cinema on Jernbanegade, Copenhagen, he also got his chief assistant, Mrs Inga Jørgensen. They worked… The Dreyer Family In 1982, the film historian Martin Drouzy published the first major biography of Dreyer and his life, Carl Th. Dreyer født Nilsson (Carl Th. Dreyer, born Nilsson). Dreyer’s daughter, Gunni, the… The story of Dreyer’s tuxedo 01. sep 2023. One of the more remarkable prized items in the collections of the Danish Film Institute is Carl Th. Dreyer’s tuxedo from 1926. The tuxedo has been shown off at major events and in the epilogue of a… A piece of Dreyer 10. mar 2021. The tools and possessions of great artists have always attracted interest and fascination. Just think of Hemingway’s typewriter or Dreyer’s tuxedo, of which we offer a thorough account elsewhere on… The Carl Th. Dreyer Award Every year on Dreyer’s birthday, the Carl Th. Dreyer Memorial Fund awards a prize primarily to a young film director, or other artist working in film, in recognition of an outstanding artistic… Bibliography Literature about the life and work of Carl Theodor Dreyer is abundant. The first book about him was publicized in 1940 in Denmark. Since, a great many books about Dreyer's work and life have…
