Guy Endore

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Guy Endore (born July 4, 1900 in New York , † February 12, 1970 in Los Angeles , California ; actually Samuel Goldstein ) was an American writer and screenwriter. He also worked under the pseudonym "Harry Relis".

Life

He was born Samuel Goldstein to Isidor and Malka Halpern Goldstein and lost his mother at the age of four. She died by suicide, probably because of the insecure circumstances into which Isidor Goldstein repeatedly brought the family - the former coal miner tried to make money as an inventor and with stock market transactions, with extremely changeable success. He had the name changed and initially gave his children to a Methodist orphanage in a small town in Ohio . His father made money again when he was able to sell one of his inventions and sent the children to Vienna to a French Catholic governess to give them a European upbringing. After five years with a Catholic governess, the money was used up and Isidore disappeared, so the family returned to the USA and settled in Pittsburgh . Despite the precarious financial situation, Guy Endore managed to attend Columbia University , occasionally renting out his bed to wealthier students to make ends meet.

He obtained his BA in 1923 and completed his studies with an MA in 1925. He then went to Hollywood with his wife and made a career in the film industry. He worked on such films as The Mark of the Vampire , Mad Love , Carefree by Dr. Flagg , Battle Thunderstorm on Monte Cassino and Lady From Louisiana . He often wrote stories that played with the supernatural, with the werewolf theme or hypnosis , or that completely belonged to the horror genre. Together with Leo Mittler and Victor Trivas , he was also involved in the script of the pro-Soviet film Song of Russia in 1944 . His last film, Fear No Evil (1969), was based on one of his short stories and was about a magic mirror. In 1956 he wrote a novel about the life of Alexandre Dumas the Elder , King of Paris (Eng. The King of Paris ).

As a member of the Communist Party, he stood before the Committee for Un-American Activities in the McCarthy era and was on various black lists for a few years; he simply continued to work as "Harry Relis", under the name of his brother-in-law, and translated books by Egon Erwin Kisch and Hanns Heinz Ewers from German into English. Later he was also involved in the Synanon movement and against racism, particularly with the Scottsboro Boys and the "Sleepy Lagoon" murder. He taught creative writing at the Los Angeles People's Education Center.

Endore, along with his colleagues Leopold Atlas and Philip Stevenson, was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Adapted Screenplay in 1946 for the screenplay for Schlachtgewitter am Monte Cassino .

Works (selection)

prose
  • The Man from Limbo. A novel. Farrar & Rinehart, New York 1930.
  • The werewolf of Paris. Roman ("The Werewolf of Paris", 1933). New edition DTV, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-423-01865-8 .
  • The Sleepy Lagoon Mystery. R & E Research, San Francisco 1972, ISBN 0-88247-187-2 (reprint of the New York 1944 edition).
  • Nightmare. Dell books, New York 1955
  • King of Paris ("King of Paris", 1956). Cotta, Stuttgart 1958
  • Detour at night. A crime-linguistic novel ("Detour at Night", 1958). Goldmann, Munich 1971.
Non-fiction
  • Casanova . His Known and Unknown Life. 3rd ed. Day Publ., New York 1930.
  • The Sword of God. Joan of Arc . Grayson & Grayson, London 1933.
  • Babouk. Monthly Review Press, New York 1991, ISBN 0-85345-759-X (reprinted from London 1935 edition).
  • The Crime at Scottsboro. Hollywood Scottsboro Committee, Los Angeles 1938.
  • The Heart and the Mind. The story of Rousseau and Voltaire . Allen, London 1962.
  • Satan's mass. The vicious life of the Marquis de Sade; a biographical analysis of the infamous Marquis and his sadism based on historical documents ("Satan's Saint", 1965). Heyne Verlag, Munich 1968.
  • Fear has long been abolished. The story of an American self-help group (“Synanon”, 1968). Abendstern Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-9804221-0-0 .
theatre
  • Call Me Shakespeare. A play in two acts. Dramatists Play Service, New York 1966.
Translations
  • Hanns Heinz Ewers: Mandrake. Arno Press, New York 1976, ISBN 0-405-08130-8 (reprint of the New York 1929 edition).
  • Egon Erwin Kisch: Sensation fair. Modern Age Books, New York 1941.

Filmography (selection)

Scripts
literary templates

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Goldmann (Hrsg.): Lexicon of Goldmann pocket books . tape 1000 . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 113 .
  2. ↑ the issue for the United Kingdom was entitled Methinks the Lady
  3. ↑ Biography of a novel about Alexandre Dumas the Younger and Alexandre Dumas the Elder
  4. ↑ The US edition was used for the translation; the UK edition is titled Detour Through Devon .
  5. ↑ (The work Voltaire! Voltaire! Is an identical parallel edition).
personal data
SURNAME Endore, guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldstein, Samuel (real name); Relis, Harry (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1970
Place of death Los Angeles , California