Alfred Deutsch-German (1870–1943) was an

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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. ...

, and

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

. From 1913 he worked for the

Wiener Kunstfilm Wiener Kunstfilm, in full Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie (English language, English: "Vienna Art Film Industry"), was the first major Austrian film production company. Founded in 1910 in film, 1910 as the Erste österreichische Kinofilms-Industrie, it ...

company as a screenwriter.

Kay Weniger Kay Weniger (born in Berlin in 1966) is an Austrian writer of books on media issues. He published an eight-volume encyclopaedia on international film people. Biography Weniger is the son of the German stage and film actress and the Austria ...

: '' Das große Personenlexikon des Films. Die Schauspieler, Regisseure, Kameraleute, Produzenten, Komponisten, Drehbuchautoren, Filmarchitekten, Ausstatter, Kostümbildner, Cutter, Tontechniker, Maskenbildner und Special Effects Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, . Between 1922 and 1934 he directed eight films. Deutsch-German worked in the Austrian film industry until the

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of 1938, but with less direct involvement in the production of films towards the end. After the so-called Anschluss of Austria to Germany, he went into exile in Nice in order to escape persecution by the National Socialists as a Jew. There he was interned in the Drancy collection camp and deported to Auschwitz on October 28, 1943, where he was gassed a short time later.

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takeover, the

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Deutsch-German went into exile in

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. He was later arrested during the

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and held at the

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. He was later sent to

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where he was killed.Weniger p.137-38

Filmography

Screenwriter

* ''

Bogdan Stimoff ''Bogdan Stimoff'' is a 1916 silent drama film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Georg Reimers, Lotte Medelsky, and Carl Goetz. It was made as a co-production between Bulgaria, Germany and the Austrian Empire, the allied Central Powers of t ...

'' (1916) * '' The Last Dawn'' (1917) * ''

The Eye of the Buddha ''The Eye of the Buddha'' (German: ''Das Auge des Buddha'') is a 1919 Austrian silent film directed by Maurice Armand Mondet and starring Fritz Kortner, Franz Herterich and Nelly Hochwald.Bock & Bergfelder p.256 Cast * Fritz Kortner as indische ...

'' (1919) * ''

Ludwig II Ludwig II (Ludwig Otto Friedrich Wilhelm; 25 August 1845 – 13 June 1886) was King of Bavaria from 1864 until his death in 1886. He is sometimes called the Swan King or ('the Fairy Tale King'). He also held the titles of Count Palatine of the ...

'' (1922) * ''

Vienna, City of Song ''Vienna, City of Song'' (German: ''Wien, du Stadt der Lieder'') is a 1930 German musical comedy film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Charlotte Ander, Paul Morgan and Igo Sym.Prawer p.9 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. ...

'' (1923) * '' Franz Lehar, der Operettenkönig'' (1925) * ''

Archduke John Archduke John of Austria (german: Erzherzog Johann Baptist Joseph Fabian Sebastian von Österreich; 20 January 1782 – 11 May 1859), a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, was an Austrian field marshal and imperial regent (''Reichsverwese ...

'' (1929)

Director

* ''

'' (1923) * '' Franz Lehar, der Operettenkönig'' (1925) * '' Frau Braier aus Gaya'' (1926) * ''

The Deed of Andreas Harmer ''The Deed of Andreas Harmer'' (German: ''Die Tat des Andreas Harmer'') is a 1930 Austrian silent crime film directed by Alfred Deutsch-German and starring Oskar Marion, Tala Birell and Attila Hörbiger.Von Dassanowsky p.40 The film's sets were ...

'' (1930) * '' Der Musikant von Eisenstadt'' (1934)

References

Bibliography

* Weniger, Kay. Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben ...' Lexikon der aus Deutschland und Österreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945''. ACABUS Verlag, 2011.

External links

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