Ernst Nebhut

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Ernst Hermann Johannes Nebhut (born June 26, 1898 in Grünberg , German Empire , † June 4, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German writer , librettist and screenwriter .

Live and act

The son of the butcher and innkeeper Hermann Nebhut had initially worked as a writer and published plays (or operettas as a librettist) such as The Hour Trader , The Forgotten , Beloved Manuela , The Little Herr Nobody , and 13 Horseshoes . Like later with the film, for which Nebhut had started writing scripts shortly before the end of the Second World War , there was regular collaboration with colleague Just Scheu . This had already started while Scheu was working for the radio. Together the two created several musical comedies as a special form of operetta. The Man with the Top Hat , An Angel Called Schmitt , Paris Stories and The Beautiful Liar , which was filmed in 1959 with Romy Schneider in the lead role, were particularly successful . The three-act act is characterized by the fact that they do not require trained voices. All the songs are set in a medium range of voice so that they can be easily mastered by musically gifted actors and actresses. In terms of the number of people, a small cast is always sufficient, also when it comes to the orchestra. The big theaters are therefore not considered suitable venues, but chamber theaters.

Scheu / Nebhut manuscripts, which the team wrote especially for the cinema of the early Adenauer years, were purely entertainment and had no intellectual claim. After all, the two succeeded in 1953 with the Rühmann fun game Don't be afraid of big animals . In 1958, Zarah Leander achieved great success with the musical Madame Scandaleuse based on a text by Nebhut. In later years Ernst Nebhut wrote mainly for television and again for the stage. In the last years of his life, Nebhut became the in-house author of the Frankfurt Volkstheater . In 1971, for example, he wrote the Hessian “folk musical ” Zur Scheene Fraa for its founder, Liesel Christ , on the body, giving this small dialect stage its first major success.

Book publications

  • Ernst Nebhut: Frankfurt streets and squares . 2nd edition, Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-7973-0261-4 . (with drawings by Ferry Ahrlé )

Filmography

Radio plays

Author:

literature

  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, second volume, Bad Münder 1961, p. 1188

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ some older sources such as Glenzdorf's Internationales Film-Lexikon name the year 1890
  2. ↑ life data on rateyourmusic.com
  3. ↑ "The golden girl" on sabinehock.de
personal data
SURNAME Nebhut, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nebhut, Ernst Hermann Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, librettist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünberg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1974
Place of death Frankfurt am Main , Germany