Siegfried Dessauer (1874–1956) was a German

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 ...

.Prawer p.212 As a Jew he was expelled from the Nazi Reich Chamber of Film in 1938. Until February 1945 he lived in

Wittenau Wittenau () is a German locality (''Ortsteil'') within the borough (''Bezirk'') of Reinickendorf, Berlin. History Originally named Dalldorf it was first mentioned in 1332. In 1869 the city of Berlin had acquired land in the Dalldorf in order to ...

, then moved to Hermsdorf. After the Second World War he emigrated to Australia in 1947.

Selected filmography

* ''Hotel Atlantik'' (1920) * ''

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'' (1922) * '' The Captain from Koepenick'' (1926)

References

Bibliography

* Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

* Film people from Berlin 1874 births 1956 deaths 19th-century German Jews German emigrants to Australia {{Germany-film-bio-stub