Harald Braun

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Harald Braun (born April 26, 1901 in Berlin ; † September 24, 1960 in Xanten ) was a German director , film producer and screenwriter .

Life

The son of the Berlin pastor Max Braun (* 1859, † 1925) studied German literature , philosophy and art history in Freiburg and Berlin and received his doctorate for Dr. phil. He became a member of the Freiburg and Berlin Wingolf . At first he worked as a businessman . In 1924 Harald Braun began working in the Evangelical Press Association for Germany in Berlin. His field of activity was the Eckart Verlag affiliated there, whose authors included Hermann Hesse , Gottfried Benn , Alfred Döblin , Albrecht Goes , Ernst Jünger , Jochen Klepper and Franz Werfel . From 1924 to 1932 he was the editor in charge of the literary monthly magazine "Eckart - Blätter für Evangelische Geisteskultur, organ of the central office for the promotion of public and youth welfare, publisher August Hinderer ". From 1933 to 1936 he worked as a radio play editor and took over the management of the "Kulturelles Wort" department at the Berliner Funkstunde.

He came to UFA through Carl Froelich in 1937 and initially worked as a writer and assistant director . In 1942 he directed Between Heaven and Earth for the first time. He directed a wide variety of films, including the revue film Hab 'mich lieb with Marika Rökk and the Schumann biography Träumerei . After the end of the Second World War , Harald Braun was director of the Heidelberger Kammerspiele from 1946 . He then came to Radio Munich as a radio play director , where he directed Bertolt Brecht's Das Verhör des Lukullus (1949), among others .

In 1947 he founded his own film company, the New German Film Company (ndF), with the screenwriter Jacob Geis . At the same time he continued to work as a director and screenwriter. Braun's best-known films from the post-war period are Nachtwache , which deals with the conversion of a doctor who has become an unbeliever, "The Falling Star" (1950) and Herz der Welt (1952), a film about the life of the pacifist Bertha von Suttner , for which he 1953 was awarded the German Film Prize. Braun's other films, which made several references to literature, often revolve around ethical and moral issues.

Braun was for some time the second chairman of the Association of German Film Directors and from 1955 a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . He was the father of Michael Braun , who later became known as a director of successful television productions.

Harald Braun's resting place was in the cemetery of the Upper Bavarian community of Graefelfing , district of Munich , until it was dissolved .

Awards

Filmography

bibliography

  • Liliencron and Naturalism . Berlin (Univ., Diss.) 1923
  • Zeitdichtung , in: Carl Schweitzer (ed.): The religious Germany of the present 2: The Christian circle. Berlin 1929, 400-421
  • Poetry belief. Voices of Religious Experience , ed. by Harald Braun. Berlin-Steglitz (Eckart-Verlag) 1931, 2nd edition 1932
  • Night watch . Narrative. Ebenhausen b. Munich (Langewiesche-Brandt) 1950
  • Heart of the world . Berlin (Evangelical Publishing House) 1954

literature

  • Harald Braun. A book of remembrance . Witten (Eckart-Verlag) 1961

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gräfelfing cemetery administration (exact date of birth)
  2. ↑ Zirlewagen, Marc in: Biographic-bibliographic church encyclopedia . Founded and edited by Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz †. Continued by Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen, 1905, keyword Braun, Max , p. 130; ISBN 3-88309-332-7
  3. ↑ Simone Höckele: August Hinderer, road and work of a pioneer Protestant journalism, Erlangen 2001, page 122, ISBN 3-933992-02-8
  4. ^ Hans Hafenbrack: History of the Evangelical Press Service, Bielefeld 2004, page 138, ISBN 3-7858-0488-1
  5. ^ Fritz Schlawe: Literary Journals Part II, Stuttgart 1962, Metzler Collection, page 99
  6. ^ Roland Rosenstock: Evangelical press in the 20th century, Stuttgart, Zurich 2002, page 485, ISBN 3-7831-2052-7
  7. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Harald Braun
  8. ↑ Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Bavaria . Munich 2000, p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1960
Place of death Xanten