Georg Zoch

Georg Zoch (born September 2, 1902 in Danzig , †  March 31, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German screenwriter , film director and author of plays.

Zoch started as an actor and got his first engagement in 1926 at the City Theater of Gdansk. He later played in Bielitz, Poland .

Since 1932 he wrote film scripts. His subjects were very diverse, mostly comedies, but also romances, adventure films and melodramas. Westward with submarines! and Menschen im Sturm , he provided the scripts for two Nazi propaganda films . He directed twelve feature films and a few short films himself. He also wrote plays, of which Jenny and the gentleman in tails was also filmed.

Stage plays

• 1940: Jenny and the gentleman in tails. 3 acts of crime comedy
• 1942: goose you stole the fox! A peasant comedy in 3 acts
• 1942: a man for my wife. A serious comedy in 3 acts
• 1943: A clock struck three times. Detective piece in 3 acts

Filmography (as a screenwriter)

• 1933: Welle 4711 (short film, also director, also actor)
• 1933: The Tsarevich
• 1933: Happy journey
• 1933: Black Forest Girl (only direction)
• 1934: Love wins (also director)
• 1934: Pipin the short one
• 1934: I was happy to kiss the women
• 1934: A waltz for you (also director)
• 1934: The cousin from Dingsda (also director)
• 1935: Everything listens to my command (also direction)
• 1935: Every day is not a Sunday
• 1935: Heaven on earth
• 1936: The merry women
• 1936: An order is an order
• 1936: stowaways
• 1936: The Last Voyage of the Santa Margareta (only direction)
• 1936: A song accuses (also director)
• 1936: The Laughing Third (also director)
• 1937: his best friend
• 1937: Marriage Institute Ida & Co
• 1937: Pat and Patachon in paradise
• 1937: music for you
• 1938: The best cannot live in peace
• 1938: Nanon
• 1939: Inspector Warren tries
• 1939: Longing for Africa (also director)
• 1939: Up and down
• 1939: The police radio reports
• 1939: twelve minutes past twelve
• 1939: The curtain falls
• 1940: World record in fling (also directing)
• 1940: When Men Travel (also director)
• 1940: The Dark Point (also director)
• 1940: the last lap
• 1941: U-boats westward!
• 1941: Jenny and the gentleman in tails
• 1941: people in the storm
• 1942: What a fruit
• 1943: Kohlhiesel's daughters
• 1943: a man for my wife
• 1944: The Degenhardts
• 1944: happiness with women
• 1947: detours to you

literature

• Kay Less : Das Großes Personenlexikon des Films , Volume 8, S. 549, Berlin 2001

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Zoch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Zoch in the Internet Movie Database (English)