Edgar Kahn
Edgar Kahn (born January 22, 1903 in Kehrenbach , † 1955 in Hamburg ) was a German stage writer , screenwriter and dramaturge .
Live and act
Kahn had worked as a publishing director in Berlin-Lichterfelde and with the beginning of the Nazi regime also wrote his own stage plays with German-national, but above all with comedic content. Some of them were later also made into a film ( How the Rabbit Runs, Sparrows in God's Hand, The Inheritance from America ). Also active as a screenwriter since 1936, he soon advanced to the position of chief dramaturge at Tobis . Edgar Kahn wrote the manuscripts on cheerful subjects until 1945, but with Mein Sohn, der Minister Minister (co-author: Karl Georg Külb ) in 1937 he also participated in an explicit Nazi propaganda piece that satirized parliamentarism in the democracies. For the crime film The Defender Has the Word , he only provided the idea in 1943. After the Second World War, Kahn was rarely active as a screenwriter. In addition to other comedy manuscripts, in 1951 he also provided the (repeatedly rewritten) script for the crime film Poison im Zoo, which was accompanied by all sorts of quarrels about the intended director Wolfgang Staudte .
Filmography (complete, without ideas)
- 1936: How the hare goes
- 1937: My son, the Minister
- 1938: Little man - really big
- 1939: The voice from the ether
- 1939: who kisses Madeleine?
- 1942: White laundry
- 1942: Flea in the ear
- 1945: Mystery of the Night
- 1950: happiness from Ohio
- 1951: Poison in the zoo
- 1952: It can happen to anyone
- 1954: roses from the south
- 1954: The Spanish fly
Publications
- 1933: Langemarck (acting)
- 1934: Sparrows in God's hand (comedy, with Ludwig Bender)
- 1936: How the Hare Runs (People's Comedy)
- 1937: Foreign exchange from Cape Town (comedy)
- 1938: The thing with Gustchen (Volksstück)
- 1943: The Eternal Chain - Director: Lutz Heinle ( Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar )
literature
- Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, second volume, Klagenfurt a. Vienna 1960, p. 942
Individual evidence
- ↑ See also the mirror report Des Müller's lust in: Der Spiegel , edition 50/1951
Web links
- Edgar Kahn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Edgar Kahn at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kahn, Edgar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German stage writer, screenwriter and dramaturge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kehrenbach , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1955 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |