Eugene Thiele

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Eugen Thiele (born September 27, 1897 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary as Eugen Isersohn , † November 16, 1938 in Baden near Vienna) was an Austrian film director , screenwriter and actor .

Life

The younger brother of the director Wilhelm Thiele gained his first artistic experience at the theater and joined German film in the 1920s . There he initially took on various functions: in 1927, Thiele was production manager at Ramper, der Tiermensch und Ehre Deine Mutter , in 1929 an extra in his brother's production Adieu, Mascotte and actor in Joe May's The Immortal Rascal, as well as dramaturge and assistant director.

With the beginning of the sound film age , Thiele was also able to direct for the first time . Thiele productions were mostly cheerful subjects: romances and comedies. The cheerful everyday story Drei von der Stempelstelle , an allusion to his brother's greatest cinema success, Die Drei von der Gasstelle , hinted at the needs and worries of a society worn down by unemployment and hunger in the late period of the Weimar Republic . The takeover of power by the National Socialists meant the end of his career for the Jew Thiele, who was now banned from work and who then fled to Vienna . A month later, he went to Prague and wrote there, the German dialogues on Otto Kantureks comedy The happiness of Grinzing . The following year, 1934, Thiele was able to direct another film, the German version of a Czech work by director Josef Rovenský (1894–1937).

After no follow-up orders, Eugen Thiele finally returned home to Vienna at the beginning of 1935 and spent his old age there and in nearby Baden under extremely modest circumstances. Eugen Isersohn-Thiele died a few months after the annexation of Austria under unexplained circumstances.

Filmography

as a director

  • 1930: Susanne brings order (also co-script)
  • 1930: television
  • 1931: Dangers of Love (also co-script)
  • 1931: My heart longs for love (also co-script)
  • 1931: A woman must be forgiven for everything
  • 1931: The Feldherrnhügel
  • 1932: Three from the stamp office
  • 1934: Tatra romance

as an actor

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The picture report "Filmarbeit in Joinville" in Mein Film No. 255, p. 8, contains a photo with the film crew. The film, shot in Paramount Studios, was never shown in Germany or Austria.

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. 501.

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personal data
SURNAME Thiele, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isersohn, Eugen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director, screenwriter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1938
Place of death Baden near Vienna, Austria