Curth Flatow

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Curth Flatow (* 9. January 1920 in Berlin , † 4 June 2011 ) was a German stage and screenwriter and actor .

Life

The son of the humorist and lecturer Siegmund Flatow and the chanson singer Alwine Kiekebusch completed a commercial apprenticeship in the clothing industry after completing secondary school . He later worked as a salesman and fashion illustrator. In 1945, after a successful appearance at a young matinee, he founded the Berlin cabaret group The Outsiders . Engagements as a cabaret actor ( with Henry Bender , cabaret of comedians ) followed.

He had his first success as a playwright with the revue Melodie der Straße (1947), which Flatow wrote together with Bruno Balz . In the following decades he established himself as a successful representative of the boulevard theater - in Germany there are 24 theaters in 20 cities that specialize in light boulevard comedies, such as the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and the Comedy in Berlin and the Comedy on the Old Town Market in Braunschweig . Flatow wrote more than 20 pieces in this genre. His greatest successes include the folk play Das Fenster zum Flur (1960) with Rudolf Platte and Inge Meysel , written with Horst Pillau , which was performed over 120 times, as well as Father of a Daughter (1966) and The Man Who Doesn't Dare (1973 ) each occupied by Georg Thomalla . His tabloid comedy The Money Is on the Bank (1968) brought it to over 500 performances at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin . "I never wanted to change society, I just wanted to entertain" , Flatow once admitted.

In addition to his theater work, he has been active in the field of film and radio and television since 1950. The television series of the same name with Thekla Carola Wied and Peter Weck on ZDF emerged from his novel I marry a family , which gained popularity in the 1980s. Flatow processed autobiographical elements in it, since he himself had married a mother with several children. After the Second World War, Flatow met Hans Rosenthal at the West Berlin broadcaster RIAS , with whom he became close friends. Flatow wrote for various series of Rosenthals, including Dalli Dalli .

Curth Flatow lived with his second wife Brigitte (birth name: Werner ) in Berlin. He had been president of the Dramatiker Union since 1967 and was a member of GEMA's admissions and works committees for many years . In 1980 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit and in 1992 the Berlin Senate awarded him the title "Professor eh" (honorary). In 2000 he presented his autobiography with Am Kurfürstendamm began . He found his final resting place in the Dahlem forest cemetery . His grave is dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave . His estate is in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Works (selection)

  • The man who doesn't dare. 1973 (theater)
  • Transit. (Theatre)
  • Second violin. 1991 (theater)
  • The window to the hallway (filmed as your most beautiful day and on the ground floor on the left ). (with Horst Pillau ; theater, film adaptation)
  • My daughter and I (father of a daughter). 1966 (theater, film adaptation)
  • No custom marriage. (Theatre)
  • Romeo with gray temples. (Theatre)
  • It started on Kurfürstendamm. Memories from a memory with gaps. Langen Müller, Munich 2000.
  • with Michael Schäbitz, Paul Spiegel : Hans Rosenthal. Germany's unforgettable quiz master; conscious, proud Jew . New Synagogue Foundation Berlin - Centrum Judaicum , Hentrich & Hentrich , Teetz 2004, ISBN 3-933471-73-7 (= Jewish miniatures. Volume 19).

Radio plays

  • 1949: Almost in peace (also speaking role) - Director: Ivo Veit ( RIAS Berlin)

Filmography (as a screenwriter unless otherwise stated)

Awards

  • 1963: Script award from the federal government
  • 1978: Golden Needle of the Dramatists Union
  • 1980: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1984: Golden Camera
  • 1985: Telestar
  • 1990: Heinrich Bolten Baeckers Prize from the GEMA Foundation
  • 1992: Honorary Professor of the City of Berlin
  • 1999: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Curth Flatow . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 46/1994 from November 7, 1994, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 40/2002 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  2. ↑ a b Flatow, Curth . In: Killy, Walter: Literature Lexicon: Authors and works in the German language . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh [et al.] 1989. Vol. 3 (accessed via WBIS Online ).
  3. ↑ Berlin playwright: Curth Flatow, "King of the Boulevard", is dead at morgenpost.de, June 5, 2011 (accessed June 5, 2011).
  4. ↑ Weinreich, Irma: The stage and film author Curth Flatow is 80 years old: From businessman to comedian . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 5, 2000 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  5. ↑ Curth Flatow Archive Inventory overview at the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
personal data
SURNAME Flatow, Curth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2011
Place of death Berlin