Heinz Herald

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Heinz Herald (born October 24, 1890 in Birnbaum , Posen , today Poland ; † July 22, 1964 in Kreuth , Bavaria ; actually Georg Pinner ) was a German theater director , dramaturge , publicist , director and screenwriter .

Life

Heinz Herald was born in Posen in 1890 as the son of Henriette (née Drucker) and Moritz Pinner, a Jewish merchant . His brother Felix Pinner later became a business journalist. After studying in Berlin , Heinz Herald worked as a dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater from 1910 . In 1915 he published a book on Max Reinhardt's theatrical art under the title Max Reinhardt: An Attempt on the Nature of Modern Direction . Two years later, Herald was a co-founder of the theater company “Das Junge Deutschland”, for which he was secretary until 1920. In 1919 he was one of the founders of the literary cabaret Schall und Rauch, along with Reinhardt . From 1920 to 1924 he was editor-in-chief of the theater magazine Blätter des Deutsches Theater . In the early 1920s, he also directed four German silent films , including Brennendes Land with Maximiliane Ackers , who also wrote the screenplay for this film. From 1926 to 1929 Herald was director of performances and guest performances at the Reinhardt-Bühnen , then director of the Berlin theater and finally artistic director of the German theater. In 1933 he lost his post due to the racial ideology of the NSDAP and was forced to emigrate to the United States via Paris and London .

From 1935 he worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and was a member of the Screen Writers Guild . For the biopic The Life of Emile Zola ( The Life of Emile Zola , 1937) with Paul Muni , he received two nominations for the Oscar in the categories of Best Original Story and Best Adapted Screenplay for which he and Norman Reilly Raine and Geza Herczeg awarded ultimately has been. In 1941 he was nominated for the biopic Paul Ehrlich - A Life for Research ( Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ) again for the Oscar in the category Best Original Screenplay together with Norman Burnstine and John Huston . Together with Herczeg, he later wrote The Burning Bush (1947), a play in three acts. In 1953 he returned to Germany and then worked as an artistic advisor to the Münchner Kammerspiele and as a radio employee and lecturer.

From 1956 to 1960 he lived again in the United States, but then returned to Germany, where he died in 1964 at the age of 73. His grave is in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles , where his children Marlene (1932–1995) and Peter V. Herald (1920–2007) were also buried. Herald was married to Lucia Bab from 1918 to 1924. His marriage to Annemarie Grandke , an artist agent , lasted from 1953 to 1955.

Works (selection)

Fonts
  • Max Reinhardt: An attempt on the essence of modern direction , 1915
  • Is Faust a Grateful Role? , 1918 (together with Eduard von Winterstein )
  • Schall und Rauch , 1919 (together with Kurt Tucholsky and Hans von Wolzüge )
  • Reinhardt and his stage , 1919 (together with Ernst Stern )
  • The Great Playhouse , 1920
  • Max Reinhardt, Portrait of a Theater Man , 1953
Stage plays

Filmography

Director
  • 1921: Burning Land
  • 1922: The black chess lady
  • 1922: The Pearls of Lady Harrison
  • 1922: The political carpet
  • 1951: Mission in Austria (short film)
script

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 18: Phil – Samu. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-22698-4 , p. 62.
  2. ^ Frithjof Trapp: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 . Volumes 1-2, Saur, 1999, p. 405.
personal data
SURNAME Herald, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinner, Georg (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, dramaturge, publicist, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Pear Tree , Poznan
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1964
Place of death Kreuth , Bavaria