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Fritz Peter Johannes Buch (born December 21, 1894 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † November 6, 1964 in Vienna ) was a German writer , translator and director .

Life and movies

Fritz Peter Buch studied literature and art history and was hired in 1921 as a dramaturge at the Deutsche Theater in Berlin , headed by Max Reinhardt . He then worked as a playwright and director. From 1924 to 1933 he was senior director at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt , after which he staged at various other stages. He was dismissed without notice in 1933 in Frankfurt am Main due to an intrigue by the chief dramaturge and deputy director Friedrich Bethge. At that time it was about his play Treaty of Karakat . This process ultimately led him to the film industry and opened up new successes for him there.

When the film industry urgently needed young talent after the Nazis came to power in order to compensate for the personnel losses it had suffered from emigration and professional bans, Ufa in Berlin offered him in 1935 to direct the film “Liebeslied”. The co-director was the editor and assistant director Herbert B. Fredersdorf , for whom this was also the first independent director in a feature film. Carola Höhn and the Italian tenor Alessandro Ziliani played the main roles in this sentimental singer film about a young woman who renounced her love for an aspiring young composer out of consideration for a sibling who was born shortly before her mother's death . In the following year, Fritz Peter Buch staged the triangular drama “Waldwinter” (with Hansi Knoteck , Hans Zesch-Ballot and Viktor Staal ) and the love tragedy “Annemarie” (with Gisela Uhlen and Victor von Zitzewitz ) produced by Georg Witt-Film GmbH in Berlin . “Annemarie”, the story of the love of a young villager for a volunteer who died in World War I , was the first of Fritz Peter Buch's films to contain clear Nazi propaganda . The following film - "The Warsaw Citadel" (1937) - combined the story of a Polish freedom fighter ( Werner Hinz ) with massive anti-Soviet propaganda. The film “Der Katzensteg”, made in the same year, which - with Hannes Stelzer and Brigitte Horney in the leading roles - portrayed an episode from the Prussian war of liberation against Napoleon , is now one of the Nazi propaganda films .

In 1938 Fritz Peter Buch wrote and directed the crime film “Der Fall Deruga”, which - with Geraldine Katt and Willy Birgel in the leading roles - tells the story of a young amateur criminalist who tries to exonerate her beloved uncle from a murder charge. The following year he turned back to the genre of women and marriage films. "Detours to happiness" was a jealous drama starring Lil Dagover and Ewald Balser ; “A whole guy” is about a capable young landlady ( Heidemarie Hatheyer ) who tries to bind her lost employer ( Albert Matterstock ) “to the clod” and at the same time to loyalty.

In 1941, Fritz Peter Buch directed the youth film “ Jakko ” for the Berlin Tobis , which - with Norbert Rohringer in the leading role - tells the story of an orphaned circus boy who finds a sense of duty and order in the Hitler Youth . The film, from the film testing the predicates received "state politically valuable," "folksy valuable" and "youth worth" is as reserved film the audience limited today accessible. Immediately afterwards Fritz Peter Buch directed the propaganda film “People in the Storm”, which describes the fate of a group of ethnic Germans who are harassed by the Serbian soldiers in Yugoslavia. The main roles in this contemporary film were played by Olga Chekhova and Siegfried Breuer . “People in the Storm” was Fritz Peter Buch's last propaganda film, until the end of the war he only directed women's films such as the legal drama “The Black Robe” (1944), which tells the story of a lawyer ( Lotte Koch ) whom her husband's former lover in defended a murder case in court, although the other from the affair even has a child.

After the war, Fritz Peter Buch directed the cabaret “Die Hinterbliebenen”, wrote several other scripts and devoted himself to translating plays from the pen of Agatha Christie . He only directed once after 1945: in the Zarah Leander film “Cuba Cubana” (1952).

Filmography

Stage work

For Lübeck, the comedy Ein Ganzer Kerl has been proven for the 1938/39 season , which was based on the film script of the same name (see above p. 2). In 1940 the drama Treaty of Karakat (see above p. 1) was performed here.

Books by Fritz Peter Buch (selection)

  • Princess Huschewind , Christmas fairy tale in 6 acts with illustrations by Hans Baluschek , published: 1922, Verlaganstalt für Literatur und Kunst Hermann Klemm, Berlin
  • The May night, comedy in 3 acts, Berlin 1943
  • Quite a guy, 5-act comedy
  • Josefa and the millionaire, comedy in 5 acts

Web links

  1. ↑ Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck theater world." The city theater during the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . P. 205. On Bethge cf. P. 226f.
  2. ↑ Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck theater world." The city theater during the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . Pp. 563, 205f.

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME Book, Fritz Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buch, Fritz Peter Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1964
Place of death Vienna