Ernst Neubach

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Ernst Neubach (born January 3, 1900 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † May 21, 1968 in Munich ) was an Austrian writer , songwriter , screenwriter , film director and film producer .

Life

During the First World War, from 1917 to 1918, Neubach participated in the war. After that he lived as a master of ceremonies in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. He wrote over 2,000 texts for chansons and hits , including the successful titles Ein Lied goes around the world , I lost my heart in Heidelberg (1925) and In a small pastry shop . Successful operetta librettos included Kavalier Jack (1926, music: Carita von Horst), I lost my heart in Heidelberg (1927, music: Fred Raymond , based on the song of the same name) and Hotel Stadt Lemberg (1929, music: Jean Gilbert ).

With the dawn of the sound film age, he began to write scripts , almost all of them for musical comedies. Only his contribution to the biography of the singer Joseph Schmidt in A Song Goes Around the World (The Joseph Schmidt Story) was unusual . After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he mostly stayed on in Vienna. On March 9, 1937, he became a member of the Patriotic Front .

After the so-called Anschluss of Austria , Neubach , who came from a Jewish family, emigrated to France . There he made some contributions as a screenwriter in 1938/39. As a member of the Foreign Legion , he served in North Africa in 1940/41. On September 29, 1942, he fled to Switzerland to escape the threatened deportation. Until three months after the end of the war he stayed in Switzerland as a private internee in a hotel in Zollikon .

In August 1945 he went to France. He worked again as a screenwriter and directed the psychodrama Rote Signals for the first time alone in 1948 . In 1952 he came back to Germany, where he soon made contact with the German film scene as a screenwriter. He founded his Neubach-Film GmbH in Munich, with which he produced his own films from 1955.

Neubach wrote the text for the drinking song In Heaven, There Is No Beer .

Neubach was married to Hertha Helene Langer, who was a Viennese beauty queen, from 1930 until the divorce in July 1945. He had a daughter with his second wife, the Swiss Margarete Jenni.

Filmography (as a screenwriter)

  • Ernst Neubach, Schlager Texts: You are the cutest girl in the world. (1929, music: Werner Richard Heymann), A Burschenlied from Heidelberg (1930, music by Hans May) and Today is the most beautiful day of my life (1936, music by Hans May)
  • Screenplay by Neubach and Hochbaum: Vorstadtvariété (1934)

Literary works

  • Ernst Neubach: drifting sand. Documentary novel of a homeless person. Pan-Verlag, 1945. 436 pp. OCLC 18012147
  • Ernst Neubach: My friend [Albert] Goering. In: Current. Deutsches Wochenmagazin, Munich: Feb. 24, 1962, pp. 20–22 and 27

literature

  • 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. P. 365 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8
  • Neubach, Ernst , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933 - 1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 698

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMDb, filmportal.de and the biography in the lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era ( LexM ) indicate May 21 as the date of death

[Gaps across the Stade de Colombes (Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir) and the French internment camp Meslay-du-Maine (from 23 Sept. 1939; Mayenne department - listed there ).]

personal data
SURNAME Neubach, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, screenwriter, film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1968
Place of death Munich