Kurt Heuser (23 November 1903 – 20 June 1975) was a German screenwriter.[1]
Kurt Heuser | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 November 1903 |
| Died | 20 June 1975 (aged 71) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Years active | 1934-1967 (film & TV) |
Early in his career he wrote Schlußakkord (Final Accord or better Final Chord), a German film melodrama of the Nazi period.[2] After 1945, Heuser continued to work as a screenwriter. He was in contact with many German-speaking filmmakers and writers and took part in the meetings of Group 47. His last work, “Malabella,” was unable to live up to his first successes as an author, although it did, for example, B. was highly praised by Christa Rotzoll in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.[3]
Selected filmography
edit- Love, Death and the Devil (1934)
- One Too Many on Board (1935)
- Schlußakkord (1936)
- Port Arthur (1936)
- A Strange Guest (1936)
- Condottieri (1937)
- To New Shores (1937)
- Red Orchids (1938)
- Liberated Hands (1939)
- Midsummer Night's Fire (1939)
- The Three Codonas (1940)
- The Girl from Fano (1941)
- Rembrandt (1942)
- Paracelsus (1943)
- The Trial (1948)
- Maresi (1948)
- Bonus on Death (1950)
- Call Over the Air (1951)
- The Sergeant's Daughter (1952)
- The Great Temptation (1952)
- Alraune (1952)
- A Life for Do (1954)
- André and Ursula (1955)
- Before God and Man (1955)
- I Was All His (1958)
- The Forests Sing Forever (1959)
- Every Day Isn't Sunday (1959)
- Carnival Confession (1960)
- Girl from Hong Kong (1961)
- Our House in Cameroon (1961)
- Via Mala (1961)
- The Gentlemen (1965)
References
edit- ^ Rentschler p.180
- ^ Sabine Hake, Popular Cinema of the Third Reich, Austin: University of Texas, 2001, ISBN 9780292734579, p. 246, note 4: the title "refers to a musical term" whereas that of Sierck's 1939 French-language Accord Final can also mean "concluding agreement".
- ^ "Verlagsgruppe Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH". Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
Bibliography
edit- Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.
External links
edit- Kurt Heuser at IMDb
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