Adolf Schütz (screenwriter)

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Adolf Schütz , also George Roland , George Martens , Per Schytte , Per Skytte and A. Paul (born September 22, 1895 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † November 11, 1974 in Stockholm , Sweden ) was an Austrian actor , writer , screenwriter , Director and theater manager .

Live and act

From 1906/1907 Schütz attended the Austro-Hungarian State School in Vienna VI. and from 1913 received all-round artistic training at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts until he was drafted into military service in 1915. Back in civilian life in 1918, Schütz began his artistic career as a theater actor. One of his early engagements in the early 1920s was a commitment to the Neue Wiener Bühne under Emil Geyer's artistic director . Here he got to know GW Pabst and played alongside well-known colleagues such as Gustav Diessl , Bruno Hübner and Leo Reuss .

Schütz soon began to be interested in other artistic fields of activity: he served as director of the Karlsbad State Theater , and as a screenwriter he participated in the 1921/22 film Verklungene Zeiten by HK Breslauer . Schütz made a name for himself in the 20s and early 30s as an author of comedies and operettas, including the dictatorship of women , Dixie , Hotel Vaudeville and, above all, with Axel at Heaven's Door . The latter comedy was filmed in 1966 for German television with Vico Torriani and Ruth Maria Kubitschek . As early as 1932, his play The Great Bluff received a cinema version in Germany.

In November 1938 Adolf Schütz first emigrated to Finland and in January 1940 went to Sweden . Here he was particularly active as a screenwriter for various films during the Second World War . He often worked now with his Austrian colleague Paul Baudisch (1899–1977). With Baudisch he also wrote the template for the 1948 film by Ernst Neubach in France, Reisser Rote Signals with Erich von Stroheim in the lead role.

After the end of the war, Schütz stayed in Stockholm until his death, but in the 1950s he kept providing German entertainment films with his own scripts. In 1959 he came up with the idea for the revue film The night before the premiere with Marika Rökk . In 1961 he made Günter Pfitzmann popular with the comedic TV crime series Gestatten, my name is Cox , which ran very successfully on the ARD evening program .

Filmography

as a screenwriter

literature

  • 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. 607.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1562.

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personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roland, George (pseudonym); Martens, George (pseudonym); Schytte, Per (pseudonym); Skytte, Per (pseudonym); Paul, A. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, director, theater director, screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1974
Place of death Stockholm