Alfred Schirokauer

Alfred Schirokauer (born July 13, 1880 in Breslau , † October 27, 1934 in Vienna ) was a German writer , screenwriter and film director .

Life

Schirokauer received his school education in England, where he gained his first directing experience as an amateur. Then he went to Hamburg and graduated from high school there. He then studied law and completed his studies with a doctorate. After a period as a trainee lawyer, Schirokauer worked as a lawyer for seven years.

At this time he began his writing activity. In 1904 he published his first novel Ilse Isensee . Numerous other works followed, some of which were filmed, including Impossible Love , starring Asta Nielsen in the lead role in 1932 . He wrote fictional biographies on Ferdinand Lassalle , Lord Byron , Napoleon and Lucretia Borgia as well as historical and contemporary novels.

Since 1912 Schirokauer has also frequently written scripts, initially regularly for Moeve-Film in Munich and Emelka, which is also based in Munich . In the 1920s he was one of the most active German screenwriters. He cooperated several times with Reinhold Schünzel . At times he was chairman of the Association of German Film Authors. Occasionally he directed it himself. After the “ seizure of power ” by the National Socialists, the Schirokauer of Jewish origin emigrated to the Netherlands and then to Vienna.

Novels

• 1906: Young people. Fontane, Berlin.
• 1908: Marta Riel. A story of happiness. Fontane, Berlin.
• ca.1910: Messalina. A. Weichert, Berlin 1927.
• 1910: The gray power. (Detective novel)
• 1911: lonely women. Fontane, Berlin.
• 1912: The Song of the Parzen. Bong, Berlin.
• 1912: Some youthful sin. Bong, Berlin.
• 1912: Ferdinand Lassalle. A life for freedom and Love. Bong, Berlin.
• 1914: The seventh great power. Oesterheld, Berlin.
• 1914: Satan. Kronen-Verlag, Berlin.
• 1916: August the Strong. Bong, Berlin.
• 1919: The strikers. Borngräber, Berlin.
• 1920: The wrong ways of love. Uhlmann, Siegmar-Chemnitz.
• 1921: Mirabeau. Bong, Berlin.
• 1922: The little princes. Diplomacy and Love in the Balkans. Eysler, Berlin.
• 1922: The dear young women. A. Weichert, Berlin.
• 1923: Napoleon's first marriage. Hachmeister & Thal, Leipzig.
• 1924: Ilse Isensee. Eysler, Berlin.
• 1925: Lord Byron. The novel of a passionate youth. Oestergaard, Berlin.
• 1925: Lucretia Borgia. Historical novel. R. Bong, Berlin.
• 1926: Behind the world. Engelhorns, Stuttgart.
• 1927: The Colorful Veils. Rhein-Elbe-Verlag, Hamburg.
• 1927: The dance on the globe. Spiegel, Vienna / Berlin.
• 1928: Against man and fate. Working group for culture and construction, Munich.
• 1928: The woman of yesterday and tomorrow. Ullstein, Berlin.
• 1929: Did Hoff do it? Book World, Berlin.
• 1929: The impossible love. Ullstein, Berlin.
• 1929: The dance on the globe (= Glöckner books. Vol. 35). Glöckner-Verlag, Berlin / Vienna.
• 1930: Cleopatra. Roman, Berlin Richard Bong
• 1930: alarm. Goldmann, Leipzig (detective novel).
• 1930: Eight in the jungle. Fates among emigrants. Ullstein, Berlin.
• 1931: Some cry, others wander. Ullstein, Berlin.
• 1932: Don Juan on the run. Ullstein, Berlin.
• 1932: the first man. Novel of a preschooler. Ullstein, Berlin.
• 1932: Shots in Shanghai. (Detective novel)

Films (as a screenwriter)

1913: The veiled image of Groß-Kleindorf 1915: The Van Dola's Adventure 1916: Werner Krafft 1919: Shattered on a woman 1919: The death of Phaleria 1920: The leap into the dark 1920: The night of the decision 1920: Fame of women 1920: George Bully 1920: the skull 1921: The great boss 1921: Camera obscura 1921: The fountain of madness 1921: Die Faust des Schicksals (also directed) 1921/22: women's confession (three parts) 1922: The experiences of a chambermaid 1922: The Queen's Favorite 1922: The revenge of the Marquis Dokama 1923: sacrifice of love 1923: The gray power 1924: The way to God / The fate of Thomas Balt 1924: mother and son (also director) 1925: The rooster in the basket 1925: The flower woman from Potsdamer Platz 1925: The woman for 24 hours 1926: The stupid August of the Romanelli Circus

1926: Five o'clock tea on Ackerstrasse 1926: Fiaker No. 13 1926: The escape into the night 1927: primary love 1927: The hunt for the bride 1927: Colonial scandal ( love while intoxicated ) 1927: The island of forbidden kisses 1927: The girl without a home 1927: The Orlov 1927: Always practice faithfulness and honesty 1927: A day of roses in August ... 1927: Heaven on Earth (only direction) 1928: Adam and Eve 1928: Hercules Maier 1929: Storm surge of love 1929: Bus No. 2 1929: Priscilla's drive into happiness ( The Runaway Princess ) 1929: Miss Ensign 1930: be a student when the violets bloom 1930: The experience of one night 1930: name marriage 1931: The fall of the General Staff Colonel Redl 1931: Elisabeth of Austria 1931: Cadets 1932: a car and no money 1935: De familie van mijn vrouw

Remarks

1. ↑ Date and place of death according to Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of the film and alte-krimis.de. IMDb and filmportal.de. on the other hand name Cottbus as the place of birth and May 24, 1954 as the date of death and Baltimore as the place of death . This is obviously a mix-up with the data of the writer Arno Schirokauer .
2. ^ "Alfred Schirokauer overleden" obituary. Nieuwsblad van het Noorden , November 3, 1934.

Web links

Wikisource: Alfred Schirokauer  - Sources and full texts

Commons : Alfred Schirokauer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Alfred Schirokauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by Alfred Schirokauer in the Gutenberg-DE project
• Alfred Schirokauer in the Internet Archive
• Alfred Schirokauer in the Internet Movie Database (English)