Eugen Scharin-Serenyi

Eugen Scharin-Serenyi , in the USA as Eugen Sharin (born August 21, 1904 in Slawonisch-Brod , Austria-Hungary (now Croatia ); † February 16, 1969 in New York City , United States ), was an Austro-Hungarian filmmaker .

Live and act

Scharin-Serenyi, who comes from today's Croatian Brod, initially worked in the press department of the German RKO branch in Berlin. As a Jew he had to leave Germany after the seizure of power and moved to the United States on June 27, 1937. There he was employed under the Americanization of his name Eugen Sharin in 1942/43 as a technical advisor and dialogue writer for a number of anti-Nazi propaganda films such as Hitler's Children and Alfred Hitchcock's Das Rettungsboot , when it was a matter of using the German passages of the film and the German dialogues in a credible manner . Immediately after the end of the war, Eugen Sharin traveled to war-torn Berlin on behalf of the State Department at the end of 1945. In May / June 1946, there is evidence of such a business trip to Vienna , where he served as a film officer for the US Army . Immediately afterwards, Scharin-Serenyi / Sharin produced short and documentary films; in this capacity he traveled to England, Switzerland and the Netherlands until 1950 .

Filmography

• 1942: There were once honeymoon (Once Upon a Honeymoon)
• 1942: Hunted by Agents (Journey Into Fear)
• 1943: Hitler's Children
• 1943: The lifeboat
• 1950: Grimm's Fairy Tales
• 1950: Vienna Choir Boys

Web links

• Eugen Scharin-Serenyi in the Internet Movie Database (English)

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. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 605.