Max Glass

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Max Glass (born June 12, 1882 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † July 18, 1964 in Paris , France ) was an Austrian writer , screenwriter , film director and film producer .

Life

According to an article under construction, Glass is said to have worked as a tutor for the children of the Austrian imperial family at the age of 17 and, after completing a university degree in history and art history, taught as a university professor at the age of just 22. His first demonstrable activities are those of a novelist. Shortly after the end of the First World War , Glass, who had already provided the template for Joseph Delmont's staging Die Entesselte Menschheit in 1920 , joined German film when the production company Terra Film needed a history expert.

Since 1921, Glass worked there as a producer, director and screenwriter and was also appointed to the Terra board. His first film work was of importance 1922/23 staging the popular Dumas -Stoffes The Man in the Iron Mask with Albert Bassermann and Vladimir Gaidarow in the lead roles. In 1928 Glass began producing films in its own production (Max-Glass-Film GmbH). In 1933 he had to leave Germany because of his Jewish faith and thereupon settled in Paris.

There Glass continued his production for the Flora film. His best-known pre-war works in exile were comedies with Fernandel . In May 1939, Glass left for the United States, but was no longer able to work as a producer and worked as a writer beyond cinematic topics. In exile he also tried, more badly than right, to market his French productions. In between, he is said to have stayed in Brazil, while the glass production companies Flora and Arcadia went bankrupt in Paris under the German occupation. In 1949 Glass returned to Paris and resumed manufacturing. His last work, which he also directed, was the film The Road to Damascus , in which he recounted Saul's conversion to Paul.

Prof. Dr. Max Glass was married to the German silent film actress Helga Molander , who was eleven years his junior .

Filmography

as a producer, production manager or production manager

  • 1923: The man in the iron mask
  • 1923: Bob and Mary (also director)
  • 1925: The humble and the dancer (also script collaboration)
  • 1925: The man who sells himself (also script collaboration)
  • 1925: If you have an aunt (also script)
  • 1925: Countess Mariza (also screenplay)
  • 1925: The Man Without Sleep (also screenplay)
  • 1926: Young Blood (also screenplay)
  • 1926: Vienna-Berlin (also screenplay)
  • 1926: The three Mannequins (also screenplay)
  • 1926: The Sea Cadet (also screenplay)
  • 1926: love trade (also screenplay)
  • 1927: Svengali (also screenplay)
  • 1927: The Tragedy of the Lost One (screenplay)
  • 1927: Bigamy (also screenplay)
  • 1927: Homesickness (also screenplay)
  • 1927: Queen Luise
  • 1928: Leontine's husbands (also screenplay)
  • 1928: Mischief of love (also screenplay)
  • 1929: The Ship of the Lost People
  • 1930: Liebe im Ring (also script collaboration)
  • 1930: two ties
  • 1930: The other
  • 1930: The company gets married (also screenplay)
  • 1931: The floating maiden
  • 1931: The Unknown Guest
  • 1932: Three from the cavalry
  • 1933: morality and love
  • 1934: L'auberge du petit dragon
  • 1935: La rosière des halles
  • 1936: La brigade en jupons
  • 1936: La rein des resquilleuses (also director)
  • 1938: Rasputin (La tragédie impériale)
  • 1938: Entente Cordiale (also screenplay)
  • 1949: Tête blonde
  • 1950: Coq en pâte
  • 1952: The Road to Damascus (Le chemin de Damas) (also directed by the screenplay)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Other sources name the then Austrian Jaroslau in today's Poland
  2. ↑ Structure from January 12, 1940
  3. ^ Glass in Les indépendants du premier siècle

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 277.
  • Kay Less: "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 195 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Glass, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, screenwriter, film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1964
Place of death Paris , France