Ela Elborg
Ela Elborg , born in Hilde Finkelnburg , (born January 8, 1899 in Wohlau , Silesia , † May 3, 2004 in Munich ) was a German screenwriter , dialogue director and acting agent .
Life
Born in Silesia, Hilde Finkelnburg, with allegedly a Jewish father who worked as a prison director, and a Christian mother, the actress Gerda Melchior, a cousin of Henny Portens . Through this family relationship, she made contact with theater and film circles shortly after the First World War and initially tried rather unsuccessfully to assert herself as an actress . In the 1920s, Finkelnburg studied art history at the Sorbonne in Paris and then tried her hand at various professions, such as a secretary at Vox- Grammophon, a translator for the Schering company in Lisbon, a travel writer at the BZ, and a film interpreter.
The production manager and later artist agent Paul Kohner gave her the position of dramaturge at Deutsche Universal shortly after the start of the sound film era . After the National Socialist seizure of power , Finkelnburg fled to Estoril in Portugal with her partner, a Jewish merchant . While her partner received a visa for the USA and emigrated there, Finkelnburg returned to the German Reich in the late 1930s. With the help of two filmmakers valued by the National Socialist rulers, the screenwriter Thea von Harbou and the actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge , who was once married to Hilde Finkelnburg's mother , as well as a forged “ Aryan ” identity, she was able to work as a Find a scriptwriter . She made her debut as an unnamed co-author of the anti-Semitic inflammatory film Jud Suss . She was employed as a dialogue director for the dubbed version of the Italian film Tragedy of Love (1941) . After the war, Ela Elborg continued to create dialogue versions of foreign language films, including for Marcel Carné's masterpiece Children of Olympus , and worked as an artist agent . In this role she looked after the actor Walter Sedlmayr, among others .
Ela Elborg was an honorary member of the Association of German Film Authors eV She died at the age of 105.
Filmography (selection)
actress
- 1919: The Secret of Holloway Castle
Scripts
- 1940: Jud Süß (unnamed script assistant)
- 1941: mother
- 1941: Clarissa
Dialogue director
- 1942: tragedy of a love
- 1946: Children of Olympus
- 1949: The Charterhouse of Parma
literature
- Hanns-Georg Rodek : Ela fell in love . Report, in: Die Welt , November 16, 2011
- 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. 571.
- Wilhelm van Kampen: Riddle of a biography: Hilde Finkelnburg alias Ela Elborg. In: Berlin in the past and present. Yearbook of the Landesarchiv Berlin 2016, Berlin 2017, pp. 209–238, ISBN 978-3-7861-2769-7
Web links
- Ela Elborg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ela Elborg at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berlin in the past and present at landesarchiv-berlin.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elborg, Ela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Finkelnburg, Hilde (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German screenwriter and acting agent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wohlau , Silesia , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 2004 |
| Place of death | Munich , Germany |