Friedrich Porges

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Friedrich Porges (born July 14, 1890 in Vienna , † January 24, 1978 in Hollywood , California ) was an Austrian journalist , publicist , editor and screenwriter .

Life

Born as the son of Ludwig Porges and the younger brother of Edmund Porges , he grew up in Vienna- Alsergrund . He studied philosophy and literature in Vienna.

He is said to have published the Allgemeine Theaterzeitung as early as 1912/1913 . He then wrote for the (then) daily newspaper Die Zeit , then for Der Morgen (1924) and was editor-in-chief of the film supplement to the film and theater magazine Die Bühne , before founding Mein Film, his own film magazine, in 1925 , which was one of the longest existing film magazines in Austria and - with interruptions from 1938 to 1945 - appeared until 1957. In addition, he also wrote for the Sunday and Monday newspaper , became the Vienna theater correspondent for the Berliner Zeitung am Mittag and worked as a screenwriter (from 1917) and director (from 1921) for Sascha-Film .

Porges was a member of the PEN Club . As the son of Jewish parents, he emigrated to England via Zurich in 1938 , where he worked as a journalist in London , before moving to the United States in 1943 or 1945 and writing novellas, dramas and screenplays. Among other things, he worked for the exile magazine Aufbau . In the post-war period he worked as a correspondent for numerous media, including an ORF film magazine .

Porges was married to Helene Matzner and had two children. He died in 1978 in Hollywood near Los Angeles and was buried in Hillside Memorial Park.

Filmography

  • 1917: Light and Darkness / The Love of a Blind Man (screenplay; director: Fritz Freisler )
  • 1917: Der neue Tantalus (screenplay; director: n / a; propaganda film for the seventh war loan)
  • 1919: The Detour to Marriage (screenplay; director: Fritz Freisler, Conrad Wiene )
  • 1919: His Highness the Tramps (screenplay; director: Paul L. Stein )
  • 1920: The Unfortunate Legacy (screenplay, director)
  • 1921: Mrs. Tutti Frutti (screenplay; director: Michael Kertész )
  • 1921: The Night of Mary Murton (screenplay, director)
  • 1921: Cherchez la femme (screenplay)
  • 1922: The Brigadier's Daughter (screenplay, director)
  • 1922: The Marquis of Bolibar (screenplay, director)
  • 1923: Adam and Eve (screenplay, director)
  • 1925: The film within the film (screenplay, director)
  • 1927: Everything wants to be a film (director)

literature

  • Nasila Berangy: Friedrich Porges (last accessed April 22, 2011), biography, 2004
  • Rudolf Ulrich: Austrians in Hollywood. New edition, Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2004, p. 374 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Porges: Reform of the happy end. In: The stage. Retrieved May 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Anthon Thaller (Ed.): Austrian Filmography - Volume 1, 1906–1918. Filmarchiv Austria Verlag, Vienna 2010, pp. 324, 334
personal data
SURNAME Porges, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, publicist, editor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1978
Place of death Hollywood , California , United States