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- Birth nameEmil Wilhelm Hermann Schünemann
- Emil Schünemann was born on April 18, 1882 in Berlin, Germany. He was a cinematographer and composer, known for Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924), Ein Walzer im Schlafcoupé (1930) and Die Insel der verbotenen Küsse (1927). He died on May 26, 1964 in Rangsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany.
- After World War II he earned his living again as a photographer with his own photo studio before he was active again as a cinematographer for few productions of the DEFA.
- His career diminished slowly with the rise of the sound film. At the beginning he was engaged for popular movies like "Der Mann im Dunkel" (1930), afterwards followed only few more movies with "Skandal um die Fledermaus" (1936) and "Hände hoch" (1942).
- The cinematographer Emil Schünemann was a skilled photographer when he made his first cinematical experiences as a cinematographer from 1903.
- Emil Schünemann remained a busy cinematographer in the 20s and he took part in well-known movies.
- He realised his first movies as a chief cinematographer with "Herzensdieb" (1909), the Titanic-Drama "In Nacht und Eis" (1912) and after a longer interruption by World War I where he was active as a cinematographer in the front line - followed "Die Pest in Florenz" (1919) and the two productions directed by Fritz Lang "Halbblut" (1919) and "Die Spinnen" (1919).
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