Frederick Gotfurt
Frederick Gotfurt (born Fritz Manne Gottfurcht, August 8, 1901 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; died in early 1973 in London-Paddington ) was a German-British screenwriter.
Life
Fritz Gottfurcht was one of the editors of the short-lived expressionist magazine Der Feuerreiter in 1921 . Sheets for poetry and criticism . He published three novels under the pseudonym Anselm Goth. He married Dorothea Frank , a divorced Berliner. After coming to power in 1933, they emigrated to France and in 1935 to Great Britain. Both were expatriated from the German Reich in 1939 . In London, he and Egon Larsen wrote texts for the cabaret 24 Schwarze Schafe and its successor, The Small Stage of the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain . In 1940 the ensemble, which stood under his own and that of Annemarie Hase and Erich Freund , played two one-act plays by JM Barrie , staged by Josef Almas , translated by him and edited for the stage. In 1943 Heinz Wolfgang Litten took over the management of the stage.
Frederick Gotfurt also worked as a screenwriter in England. In 1937 he wrote the script for a (further) film adaptation of the German operetta Die chaste Susanne under the title The Girl in the Taxi . Under the head of production Robert Clark, he worked primarily for British International Pictures in the 1950s . In his scripts, however, he struggled with the English language, which was criticized by actor Richard Attenborough .
After the war, Dorothea Gotfurt translated novels by Agatha Christie for the German book market. Frederick Gotfurt died at the age of 71 in the first quarter of 1973 in Paddington, London.
Works (selection)
- Anselm Goth: The 5th question . Novel. Zeitschriftenverlags Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin 1934
- Anselm Goth: The year without end . Novel. Verlag der Zeit-Romane, Berlin 1931
- Anselm Goth: Daring game . Serial novel in the Libauschen newspaper no. 38 to no. 92 /1933
literature
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 1 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 404
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Gottfurcht in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frederick Gotfurt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fritz Gottfurcht at the British Film Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gotfurt ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on findmypast.co.uk
- ↑ Michael Hepp (ed.): The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger , Volume 1: Lists in chronological order . Munich: De Gruyter, 1985, p. 191
- ↑ Gabriele Tergit: The Exile Situation in England , in: Manfred Durzak (Hrsg.): Die deutsche Exilliteratur. 1933-1945 . Reclam, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-15-010225-1 , p. 142
- ^ Vincent Porter: Outsiders in England The films of the Associated British Picture Corporation, 1949-58 , in: Justine Ashby; Andrew Higson: British Cinema, Past and Present . Abingdon: Routledge, 2000, p. 153 [citation not verified]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gotfurt, Frederick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fritz Manne Gottfurcht (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-British script car |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | between January 1973 and March 1973 |
| Place of death | London Paddington |