Friedrich Raff

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Friedrich Raff (born August 25, 1889 in Stuttgart , † March 12, 1947 in Zurich ) was a German writer , journalist and screenwriter .

Life

Friedrich Raff was born in Stuttgart in 1889 as the son of the Jewish banker Arthur Raff (1852–1949) and his wife Rosa Weissenburger (1857–1908). Raff began his professional career as a freelance author and columnist for the Vossische Zeitung and Die Weltbühne . Since the 1920s he has also published works as a writer, including the satirical collection The Splinters of Others (1924), the comedies The Expedition into the Interior (1925), the novel Peter Tingeltangel (1928) and the Schwank Die Laus im Pelz .

He began writing screenplays in the mid-1920s. He often worked with colleagues, especially with the journalist Julius Urgiß , with whom he worked regularly from 1928 to 1932.

As a screenwriter, he took part in both simple comedies and adaptations of serious literature, including Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening and the film 24 hours from the life of a woman based on Stefan Zweig's novella Letter from a Stranger . The silent film star Henny Porten was often the leading actress.

Raff and his family lived in Göppingen and Stuttgart for a long time. He then moved to Berlin around 1930. The rise of the National Socialists to power in 1933 forced Raff to emigrate from Germany. He lived in various places in Western Europe for several years until he settled in Zurich in 1937. Friedrich Raff worked there as a film critic for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and resumed his work as a screenwriter in the early 1940s.

Friedrich Raff died in 1947 as a result of an operation. Friedrich Raff had been married to Fanny Elsas (1884–1966) since 1916. He was thus the son-in-law of John Elsas . Friedrich Raff adopted his son Hans (1913-1993), who came from the first marriage of his wife Fanny to Paul Herz (1883-1913). Their son Herbert Raff (1917–2000) was born in August 1917.

Filmography

Publications

  • Young songs. Strasbourg: Singer 1910 [poetry]
  • The splinters of the others. Satires and sketches [= world kaleidoscope. Sixth picture]. Ludwigsburg: Deutscher Volksverlag 1924
  • Peter Tingeltangel. Novel. Nederlandsche Bewerking door de V. Jr. Amsterdam: Voorwarts 1928 [not published in German]

literature

  • Dorothee Hoppe: The Frankfurt artist John Elsas, Darmstadt 2014.
  • 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. 405.

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personal data
SURNAME Raff, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1947
Place of death Zurich