Biography
Willy Hameister (3 December 1889 – 13 February 1938) was a German cinematographer. He began working for Deutsche Bioscop in 1904, initially filming actualities, and moved to feature films from 1912, often collaborating early in his career with director Otto Rippert.
Hameister is best known for his work on The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Genuine (1920). His other credits include The Plague of Florence (1919), Peter the Great (1922) and, uncredited, Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia (1938). From the mid-1930s he worked mainly on short films. He died in Berlin after a long illness.
