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Ernst Neubach
Ernst Neubach (3 January 1900 – 21 May 1968) was an Austrian screenwriter, producer and director. Biography Of Jewish descent, Neubach was a veteran of World War I, after which he worked as a master of ceremonies in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. He wrote lyrics for songs and over 2,000 hits, including ''I've lost my heart in Heidelberg'' (1925) and '' In Heaven There Is No Beer'' (1956). Successful operetta librettos include ''Gentleman Jack'' (Music: Carita by Horst). With the dawn of the talkie era, he began to write screenplays for musical comedies. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, Neubach lived mostly in Vienna. On 9 March 1937, he became a member of the Patriotic Front. After the Anschluss, Neubach emigrated to France. There, he worked as a screenwriter from 1938 to 1939. As a member of the French Foreign Legion, he served in North Africa from 1940 to 1941. On 29 September 1942, he fled to Switzerland to escape the threat of deportation. He stayed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. Terminology In the silent era, writers now considered screenwriters were denoted by terms such as photoplaywright, photoplay writer, photoplay dramatist and screen playwright.Steven Maras. ''Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice.'' Wallflower Press, 2009. pp. 82–85. Screenwriting historian Steven Maras notes that these early writers were often understood as being the authors of the films as shown and argues that they cannot be precisely equated with present-day screenwriters because they were responsible for a technical product, a brief "scenario", "treatment", or "synopsis" that is a written synopsis of what is to be filmed. Profession Screenwriting is a freelance profession. No education is required to be a professional scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Lost My Heart In Heidelberg (1952 Film)
''I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg'' (german: Ich hab' mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren) is a 1952 West German romantic musical film directed by Ernst Neubach and starring Eva Probst, Adrian Hoven and Paul Hörbiger. The film takes its title from the popular song '' I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg'', whose lyrics Neubach had co-written in the 1920s.Bergfelder, p. 117 It was part of a strong trend towards heimatfilm productions set in romanticised Southern Germany, Austria or Switzerland. It premiered in Heidelberg on 29 October 1952. Although they share the same title, the film is not a remake of I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg from 1926. It was made at the Spandau Studios in Berlin with location shooting at a variety of places included Cuxhaven, Wiesbaden and Heidelberg itself. Cast * Eva Probst as Hella Romberg * Adrian Hoven as Tony de Boers * Paul Hörbiger as Josef Degener * Dorit Kreysler as Pia Biberger * Herbert Hübner as Präsident de Boers * Ruth Stephan as Dietlinde, Stude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak (; 8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of films noirs he made in the 1940s, such as ''The Killers'' (1946). Early life Siodmak was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of Rosa Philippine (née Blum) and Ignatz Siodmak and the brother of Curt, Werner and Roland. His parents were both from Jewish families in Leipzig (the myth of his American birth in Memphis, Tennessee was necessary for him to obtain a visa in Paris during World War II). He worked as a stage director and a banker before becoming editor and scenarist for Curtis Bernhardt in 1925 (Bernhardt directed a film of Siodmak's story ''Conflict'' in 1945). At twenty-six he was hired by his cousin, producer Seymour Nebenzal, to assemble original silent movies from stock footage of old films. Siodmak worked at this for two years before he persuaded Nebenzal to finance his first feature, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man In Search Of His Murderer
''The Man in Search of His Murderer'' (german: Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers and Hans Leibelt.Hardt p. 239 The film is partially lost; of the original 9 acts only five (50 minutes) are left. It was one of the early leading roles for upcoming German star Heinz Rühmann. Co-writer Billy Wilder was at the beginning of his long career. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and premiered at the city's Gloria-Palast. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. It was remade in 1952 as '' You Only Live Once''. Cast See also * ''Tribulations of a Chinaman in China'' (novel by Jules Verne, 1879) * '' Flirting with Fate'' (1916) * ''The Whistler'' (1944) * '' You Only Live Once'' (1952) * '' Five Days'' (1954) * ''Up to His Ears'' (1965) * ''Tulips'' (1981) * ''I Hired a Contract Killer'' (1990) * ''Bulworth'' (1998) * ''Shut Up and Shoot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Boese
Carl Eduard Hermann Boese (; 26 August 1887 – 6 July 1958) was a German film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957. Selected filmography * ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917) * ''Donna Lucia'' (1918) * ''The Stolen Sole'' (1918) - Director * ''Nuri's Curse / Nissami's Song'' (1918) - Director * ''The Geisha and the Samurai'' (1919) * ''The Devil and the Madonna'' (1919) * ''Nocturne of Love (1919 film), Nocturne of Love'' (1919)-Direct. * ''The Golem: How He Came into the World'' (1920) * ''The Dancer Barberina'' (1920) * ''Three Nights'' (1920) * ''The Song of the Puszta'' (1920) * ''Blackmailed (1920 film), Blackmailed'' (1920) * ''The Raft of the Dead'' (1921) * ''The Shadow of Gaby Leed'' (1921) * ''The Terror of the Red Mill'' (1921) * Dolores (1922) - Director * ''The Unwritten Law (1922 film), The Unwritten Law'' (1922) * ''Slave for Life'', director, producer * ''Count Cohn'' (1923) * ''Maciste and the Chinese Chest'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Schönfelder
Erich Schönfelder (1885–1933) was a German screenwriter, actor, and film director of the silent film, silent and early sound film, sound eras. Early in his career he worked frequently with Ernst Lubitsch. Selected filmography Writer * ''Shoe Palace Pinkus'' (1916) * ''When Four Do the Same'' (1917) * ''My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * ''Meyer from Berlin'' (1919) * ''Love at the Wheel'' (1921) Actor * ''The Golem and the Dancing Girl'' (1917) *''The Toboggan Cavalier'' (1918) * ''Ruth's Two Husbands'' (1919) * ''Hunted Men'' (1924) * ''Struggle for the Soil'' (1925) * ''Fight of the Tertia (1929 film), Fight of the Tertia'' (1929) * ''The Copper (1930 film), The Copper'' (1930) Director * ''The Bull of Olivera'' (1921) * ''Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * ''In the Name of the King (1924 film), In the Name of the King'' (1924) * ''Women of Luxury'' (1925) * ''The Woman with That Certain Something'' (1925) * ''Princess Trulala'' (1926) * ''Grandstand for General Staff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tender Relatives
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl (10 May 1899 – 29 August 1978) was an Austrian film director. Life Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda. As a production manager, he in the 1920s accompanied Korda to Berlin, until in 1926 he returned to Vienna to work for his former class-mate director Gustav Ucicky. From 1930 he worked for Universum Film AG (UFA) and debuted as director of ''Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg'' ("A Fraternity Song from Heidelberg") starring Hans Brausewetter and Willi Forst, with young Billy Wilder as a screenwriter. Together with Luis Trenker he directed the ''Gebirgsjäger'' drama ''Berge in Flammen'' ("Mountains in Flames") in 1931. He then experimented with other genres, for example the comedy ''Die Gräfin von Monte Cristo'' ("The Countess of Monte Cristo") (1932) with Brigitte Helm and Gustaf Gründgens, and in the same year achieved his final b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Wilhelm (screenwriter)
Hans Wilhelm (18 October 1904 – 23 December 1980) was a German screenwriter. Wilhelm was of Jewish heritage,Prawer p.212 and was forced to emigrate following the Nazi takeover in 1933. After going into exile he worked in a variety of countries including Britain, France, and Turkey before eventually settling in the United States. He later returned to work in West Germany following the Second World War. Selected filmography * ''Nick, King of the Chauffeurs'' (dir. Carl Wilhelm, 1925) * '' My Aunt, Your Aunt'' (1927) * '' Violantha'' (dir. Carl Froelich, 1928) * ''The Fourth from the Right'' (dir. Conrad Wiene, 1929) * ''German Wine'' (dir. Carl Froelich, 1929) * ''The Last Fort'' (dir. Curtis Bernhardt, 1929) * ''Diary of a Coquette'' (dir. Constantin J. David, 1929) * ''Sinful and Sweet'' (dir. Karel Lamač, 1929) * ''The Last Company'' (dir. Curtis Bernhardt, 1930) * ''A Student's Song of Heidelberg'' (dir. Karl Hartl, 1930) * '' Queen of the Night'' (dir. Fritz Wendhausen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Student's Song Of Heidelberg
''A Student's Song of Heidelberg'' (German: ''Ein Burschenlied aus Heidelberg'') is a 1930 German musical film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Brausewetter, Betty Bird and Willi Forst. It marked Hartl's directoral debut.Bock & Bergfelder p.185 The film is in the tradition of the nostalgic Old Heidelberg. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth. Cast * Hans Brausewetter as Bornemann jun * Betty Bird as Elinor Miller * Willi Forst as Robert Dahlberg * Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur as John Miller * Albert Paulig as Bornemann sen. * Carl Balhaus as Bornemanns Leibfuchs * Erwin Kalser as Dr. Zinker * Ida Wüst as Wirtin * Hermann Blaß as Sam Mayer * Paul Biensfeldt as Klubdiener * Ernst Behmer * Rudolf Biebrach * Julius E. Herrmann * Erich Kestin * Robert Klein-Lörk * Philipp Manning * Erik Ode * Karl Platen * Klaus Pohl * Ludwig Stössel * Bruno Ziener * Josef Bun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Oswald
Richard Oswald (5 November 1880 – 11 September 1963) was an Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter, and father of German-American film director Gerd Oswald. Early career Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, began his career as an actor on the Viennese stage. He made his film directorial debut at age 34 with ''The Iron Cross'' (1914) and worked a number of times for Jules Greenbaum. In 1916, Oswald set up his own production company in Germany, writing and directing most of his films himself. His pre-1920 efforts include such literary adaptations as ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1917), '' Peer Gynt'' (1919), the once scandalous ''Different from the Others'' (1919) and ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1919). Oswald directed nearly 100 films. Some critics have suggested that Oswald was more prolific than talented, but such films as his horror film '' Unheimliche Geschichten'' (1932), produced by no less than Gabriel Pascal, would seem to refute thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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