Adolf Abter

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Moritz Adolf Abter (born December 1, 1887 in Hanover ; died July 5, 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a German film director , screenwriter and film producer during the silent film era .

Life

Abter, who was born the son of a banker, attended grammar school and initially completed a commercial apprenticeship. After completing his training, he worked as a freelance writer and wrote for the Hamburger Mittagsblatt and the Filmkurier . In January 1913 he married the operetta singer Cilly Lasary .

His first film was the film adaptation of Lessing Miss Sarah Sampson in 1919 with Ethel Orff , Grit Hegesa , Rudolf Hofbauer and Robert Scholz in the leading roles. Abter founded his own production company Abter-Film-Co. GmbH, with whom he made the film The Night and the Corpse in 1920 . Other films, including Two Black Lanterns and The Devil's Elixirs , followed. Abter also wrote the script for some of the films he shot and produced.

During the time of National Socialism , Abter had to take the first name "Israel" (see Name Change Regulation ). He fled to France, where he was arrested and taken to the Drancy assembly camp . From there he was in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on June 30, 1944 deported , where he was killed the following month.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1919: Miss Sarah Sampson
  • 1920: The night and the corpse
  • 1921: The golden scorpion
  • 1921: The great sensation
  • 1921: Two black lanterns
  • 1922: elixirs of the devil
  • 1923: Maud, the great sensation
  • 1925: Breitensträter - Paolino. The German champion's hardest fight

literature

  • Abter, Moritz Adolf . In: Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 5.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hepp (ed.): The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger . Volume 2: Name Register. Walter de Gruyter, 1985, p. 4.
  2. ↑ See entry on Adolf Abter on db.yadvashem.org
personal data
SURNAME Abter, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abter, Moritz Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, screenwriter and film producer during the silent film era
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp