Curt Alexander

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Curt Alexander , aka Kurt Rosenbaum , (born November 15, 1900 in Berlin ; † April 4, 1945 in Gröditz ) was a German screenwriter , dramaturge and theater director.

Life

Alexander worked in the 1920s as a dramaturge and director, and there is evidence that he worked at the Stadttheater Heidelberg in 1927/28. With the start of the sound film, he switched to the cinema. Until 1933, Alexander was a sought-after author of light and cheerful materials, often in cooperation with Hermann Kosterlitz and Hans Wilhelm . In the film version of Smetana - opera The Bartered Bride (1932) Alexander first worked with Max Ophuls together. He was also involved in Ophüls' adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Liebelei , which should bring him and his co-author Wilhelm a lot of praise.

In 1933 the Jew Alexander had to leave Germany. Until 1940 he worked as a screenwriter in various European countries, especially in Italy and France . There, there were repeated collaborations with Ophüls (“ A Diva for Everyone”, “Tender Enemy”, “ Without a Tomorrow ”, “ From Mayerling to Sarajewo ”). In the meantime, Alexander also acted as chief dramaturge of the Musso Toeplitz group of companies. In 1939 he wrote the manuscript for the Dutch production “ Boefje ”, the nominally first production by Detlef Sierck while he was emigrating. After the occupation of France by the Wehrmacht , Curt Alexander fled to the initially unoccupied part of the country. It was there in 1942 that the film " Félicie Nanteuil " was made based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France . It would be Alexander's last work as a screenwriter. On March 27, 1944, Kurt Rosenbaum / Curt Alexander von Drancy was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. On March 3, 1945, he ended up in the Flossenbürg concentration camp on a death march. He died on April 4, 1945 in Gröditz, a satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp.

Filmography (complete)

  • 1930: The leap into nowhere
  • 1931: Who takes love seriously?
  • 1932: Five from the jazz band
  • 1932: The Bartered Bride
  • 1932: A city is upside down
  • 1933: love affair
  • 1934: A diva for everyone ( La signora di tutti )
  • 1936: Affectionate enemy ( La tendre ennemie )
  • 1936: Amore
  • 1936: Le scarpe al sole
  • 1937: La fossa degli angeli (also co-director)
  • 1937: I due barbieri
  • 1937: Allgri masnadieri
  • 1938: Raphaël le tatoué
  • 1939: Menaces
  • 1939: buoy
  • 1939: Without a Tomorrow (Sans lendemain)
  • 1940: From Mayerling to Sarajevo (De Mayerling à Sarajevo)
  • 1942: Félicie Nanteuil (premiere: 1945)

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 33.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trapp, Frithjof; Mittenzwei, Werner; Rischbieter, Henning; Schneider, Hansjörg: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933-1945 / Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists. Volume 2, p. 8. Munich 1999
  2. ↑ Trapp, p. 8
  3. ^ Federal Archives Memorial Book. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Alexander, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter, dramaturge and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1945
Place of death Gröditz