Gad Granach (29 March 1915 – 6 January 2011)
/ref> was the son of German actor Alexander Granach
Alexander Granach (April 18, 1890 – March 14, 1945) was a German-Austrian actor in the 1920s and 1930s who emigrated to the United States in 1938.
Life and career
Granach was born Schaje Granoch in Werbowitz (Wierzbowce/Werbiwci) (Austri ...
known for his roles in ''Nosferatu
''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (German: ''Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens'') is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife ...
'', ''Ninotchka
''Ninotchka'' is a 1939 American romantic comedy film made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Walter Reisch, based o ...
'', and ''For Whom the Bell Tolls
''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned ...
''. Gad Granach fled Germany at the age of 21 during the rise of Nazism, immigrating to the then-British Mandate of Palestine in 1936. He published a memoir entitled ''Where is Home? Stories from the Life of a German-Jewish Émigré'' (originally in German: ''Heimat los! Aus dem Leben eines jüdischen Emigranten'') recounting of his early life in Berlin and subsequent life in Israel.
Literature
* Gad Granach: ''Where is Home? Stories from the Life of a German-Jewish Émigré'', Atara Press, Los Angeles 2009,
* Gad Granach: ''Heimat los! Aus dem Leben eines jüdischen Emigranten'', Ölbaum-Verlag, Augsburg 1997, ; Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt 2000, , Random House/Bertlesmann, Munich 2008,
* Alexander Granach: ''Da geht ein Mensch'', Ölbaum-Verlag, Augsburg 2003,
* Alexander Granach: "From the Shtetl to the Stage: The Odyssey of a Wandering Actor" Transaction Publishers, 2010. (New edition of "There Goes an Actor," 1945.)
Film
*'' Israel, Why ( Pourquoi Israel)'', directed by Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann (; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film '' Shoah'' (1985).
Early life
Lanzmann was born on 27 November 1925 in Paris, France, the son of Paulette () and Armand Lanzmann. ...
, France, 1973
*''Granach der Jüngere'', directed by Anke Apelt, Germany, 1997
*''Alexander Granach - Da geht ein Mensch'', directed by Angelika Wittlich, Germany, 2012
Audio recordings
*''Ach So! Gad Granach und Henryk Broder
Henryk Marcin Broder (born 20 August 1946, self-designation Henryk Modest Broder) is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and TV personality.
Broder is known for polemics, columns, and comments in written and audiovisual media. Starting as ...
on Tour'' CD, Ölbaum-Verlag, Augsburg 2000,
References
1915 births
2011 deaths
German memoirists
German male non-fiction writers
German emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
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