Emanuel Alfieri

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Emanuel Alfieri , also Emanuel Adler-Alfieri , (born May 6, 1889 in Bucharest , Kingdom of Romania , † 1964 in Los Angeles , United States ) was a German screenwriter of the silent film era .

Life

Alfieri attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Berlin and then studied law in Berlin, Munich and Heidelberg. After completing his studies, which he completed with a doctorate, he worked in a publishing house and worked in Munich as the head of a concert management. From 1916 to 1918 Alfieri was an army soldier in the First World War .

Alfieri began working in the film industry in 1920. First he worked for the Decla-Bioscop and later worked as a scriptwriter for the Ifa. One of his best-known films is Der Bettler vom Kölner Dom from 1927 and directed by Rolf Randolf .

During the time of National Socialism , Alfieri, who was Jewish, was arrested and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Here he was released in December 1938. His property was confiscated by the state. Alfieri emigrated to New York with his wife, died in Los Angeles in 1964 and was buried in the Forever Hollywood Cemetery. Alfieri was a relative of the Austrian opera singer Georg Alfieri-Adler , who was murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1940.

Filmography

  • 1923: Night storms
  • 1924: Rose Monday
  • 1925: The red mouse
  • 1925: War in Peace
  • 1926: The secret of St. Pauli
  • 1927: The linden landlady on the Rhine
  • 1927: Light cavalry
  • 1927: The beggar from Cologne Cathedral
  • 1928: The greatest love
  • 1928: Vivre
  • 1928: The public prosecutor charges
  • 1928: Mikosch moves in
  • 1929: Women on the brink
  • 1929: Swap faces
  • 1929: The white roses from Ravensberg
  • 1929: The armored car

literature

  • Alfieri (Adler), Dr. Emanuel . In: Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 7.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Juliane Brauer: Music in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Metropol-Verlag, 2007, p. 298.
  2. ↑ Emanuel Alfieri on ancestry.com
personal data
SURNAME Alfieri, Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adler-Alfieri, Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter of the silent film era
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH 1964
Place of death Los Angeles , United States