Biography
Paul Holzki was a German cinematographer. He trained as a photographer before entering the film industry around 1913 as a camera operator. His career was interrupted by service in the First World War from 1916 to 1918, after which he worked as a chief cameraman on numerous silent feature films, often in collaboration with director Friedrich Zelnik.
In the late 1920s Holzki contributed to early German sound films, including the experimental documentary Melodie der Welt (1929). He later focused on documentaries and was one of the cinematographers on Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia (1938), the official film of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, released in two parts as Festival of the Nations and Festival of Beauty.
