Alfred Schirokauer
Alfred Schirokauer (born July 13, 1880 in Breslau , † October 27, 1934 in Vienna ) was a German writer , screenwriter and film director .
Life
Schirokauer received his school education in England, where he gained his first directing experience as an amateur. Then he went to Hamburg and graduated from high school there. He then studied law and completed his studies with a doctorate. After a period as a trainee lawyer, Schirokauer worked as a lawyer for seven years.
At this time he began his writing activity. In 1904 he published his first novel Ilse Isensee . Numerous other works followed, some of which were filmed, including Impossible Love , starring Asta Nielsen in the lead role in 1932 . He wrote fictional biographies on Ferdinand Lassalle , Lord Byron , Napoleon and Lucretia Borgia as well as historical and contemporary novels.
Since 1912 Schirokauer has also frequently written scripts, initially regularly for Moeve-Film in Munich and Emelka, which is also based in Munich . In the 1920s he was one of the most active German screenwriters. He cooperated several times with Reinhold Schünzel . At times he was chairman of the Association of German Film Authors. Occasionally he directed it himself. After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists, the Schirokauer of Jewish origin emigrated to the Netherlands and then to Vienna.
Novels
- 1906: Young people. Fontane, Berlin.
- 1908: Marta Riel. A story of happiness. Fontane, Berlin.
- ca.1910: Messalina. A. Weichert, Berlin 1927.
- 1910: The gray power. (Detective novel)
- 1911: lonely women. Fontane, Berlin.
- 1912: The Song of the Parzen. Bong, Berlin.
- 1912: Some youthful sin. Bong, Berlin.
- 1912: Ferdinand Lassalle. A life for freedom and Love. Bong, Berlin.
- 1914: The seventh great power. Oesterheld, Berlin.
- 1914: Satan. Kronen-Verlag, Berlin.
- 1916: August the Strong. Bong, Berlin.
- 1919: The strikers. Borngräber, Berlin.
- 1920: The wrong ways of love. Uhlmann, Siegmar-Chemnitz.
- 1921: Mirabeau. Bong, Berlin.
- 1922: The little princes. Diplomacy and Love in the Balkans. Eysler, Berlin.
- 1922: The dear young women. A. Weichert, Berlin.
- 1923: Napoleon's first marriage. Hachmeister & Thal, Leipzig.
- 1924: Ilse Isensee. Eysler, Berlin.
- 1925: Lord Byron. The novel of a passionate youth. Oestergaard, Berlin.
- 1925: Lucretia Borgia. Historical novel. R. Bong, Berlin.
- 1926: Behind the world. Engelhorns, Stuttgart.
- 1927: The Colorful Veils. Rhein-Elbe-Verlag, Hamburg.
- 1927: The dance on the globe. Spiegel, Vienna / Berlin.
- 1928: Against man and fate. Working group for culture and construction, Munich.
- 1928: The woman of yesterday and tomorrow. Ullstein, Berlin.
- 1929: Did Hoff do it? Book World, Berlin.
- 1929: The impossible love. Ullstein, Berlin.
- 1929: The dance on the globe (= Glöckner books. Vol. 35). Glöckner-Verlag, Berlin / Vienna.
- 1930: Cleopatra. Roman, Berlin Richard Bong
- 1930: alarm. Goldmann, Leipzig (detective novel).
- 1930: Eight in the jungle. Fates among emigrants. Ullstein, Berlin.
- 1931: Some cry, others wander. Ullstein, Berlin.
- 1932: Don Juan on the run. Ullstein, Berlin.
- 1932: the first man. Novel of a preschooler. Ullstein, Berlin.
- 1932: Shots in Shanghai. (Detective novel)
Films (as a screenwriter)
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Remarks
- ↑ Date and place of death according to Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of the film and alte-krimis.de. IMDb and filmportal.de. on the other hand name Cottbus as the place of birth and May 24, 1954 as the date of death and Baltimore as the place of death . This is obviously a mix-up with the data of the writer Arno Schirokauer .
- ^ "Alfred Schirokauer overleden" obituary. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden , November 3, 1934.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred Schirokauer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Alfred Schirokauer in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Alfred Schirokauer in the Internet Archive
- Alfred Schirokauer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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SURNAME | Schirokauer, Alfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1880 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1934 |
Place of death | Vienna |