Gyula Trebitsch

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Gyula (Julius) Trebitsch (born November 3, 1914 in Budapest ; † December 12, 2005 in Hamburg ) was a German-Hungarian film producer with great success in German film.

Gyula Trebitsch 1985 in Travemünde

Life

Trebitsch, who was of Jewish faith, learned the film trade from July 1932 at the Budapest UFA : as usher , recording and theater manager , and in 1937 he completed his training as a royal Hungarian cinema projectionist .

At the age of 22 he financed the UFA production in Budapest in 1936 with loans I entrust you my wife ( Rád bízom a feleségem ) and became a co-founder and co-owner of the Hungarian company Objekt-Film , which produced nine more productions. In Hungary he was drafted into labor service in 1942 because the Jews were not allowed to do military service; Among other things, he had to build positions and clear mines on the Eastern Front. He was later forced to work in the Bor copper mines in German-occupied Serbia and was eventually deported to the Sachsenhausen , Barth (near Rostock) and Wöbbelin (near Ludwigslust) concentration camps. His brothers were murdered during the Holocaust , his parents survived in Budapest and emigrated to Israel after the war .

Memorial in memory of victims of National Socialism

After his liberation from the Wöbbelin concentration camp, he was taken care of by the British military in Itzehoe . In 1946 Gyula Trebitsch was one of the initiators of the erection of the first memorial in Germany to commemorate the victims of National Socialism . The design came from the Hamburg architect Fritz Höger . The memorial is now in the center of Itzehoe.

Trebitsch received a license to operate two cinemas from the military government. He did not return to Hungary because he had fallen in love with the costume designer Erna Sander ; the couple married in 1947.

1947 built Gyula Trebitsch and his partner Walter coupling the live action and the Studio Hamburg in Hamburg-Tonndorf the largest service center for film and television in northern Germany and one of the largest media centers in Europe.

As a first film after the war he produced in 1949 , the last night with Margarete Haagen and Carl-Heinz Schroth . After a few comedies, such as Not Afraid of Big Animals (1953) with Heinz Rühmann , Des Teufels General (1955) by Helmut Käutner with Curd Jürgens and Viktor de Kowa was an early success for the producer.

In 1957, Trebitsch even hoped for an Oscar in the category of best foreign language film with Der Hauptmann von Köpenick . But this went to The Nights of Cabiria ( Le Notti di Cabiria ) by Federico Fellini .

Many successful films followed, such as Die Zürcher Verlobung (1957) with Liselotte Pulver , Dr. Crippen lives (1958) with Elisabeth Müller and Peter van Eyck , Der Schinderhannes (1958) with Curd Jürgens or Mrs. Warrens Gewerbe (1960) with Lilli Palmer .

But his company also oversaw popular productions for television, such as Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox (1961) with Günter Pfitzmann , Ellen Schwiers and Paul Edwin Roth , Hafenpolizei (1963) by John Olden , police radio calls with Josef Dahmen and Karl-Heinz Hess (1965), Hamburg Transit with Karl-Heinz Hess and Eckart Dux , (1970) Gertrud Stranitzki (1966) and Ida Rogalski (1969), both with Inge Meysel and the music of Martin Böttcher . The most successful productions by Trebitsch's Studio Hamburg were Die Bertinis , These Drombuschs and Hafenkrankenhaus with Anneli Granget .

Since 1951 Trebitsch was a member of the Jewish community in Hamburg, for which he was also financially committed until his death. In 1992, although he was a long-time member of the SPD, he received the CDU Hamburg Citizens Prize . The Hamburg Senate awarded him the Mayor Stolten Medal in 1994 . Trebitsch had already been recognized as an honor lock keeper in 1985.

He had three children with his wife Erna, who died in 1991: Katharina Trebitsch (* 1949), Markus Trebitsch (* 1950), both of whom became television producers, and Ulrike.

A school in Hamburg-Tonndorf is called Gyula Trebitsch Schule Tonndorf .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Itzehoer memorial for the victims of the Nazi regime: Built, displaced, rediscovered

literature

Fonts

  • Gyula Trebitsch (editor): Documentation 3rd Hamburg authors' seminar on the creation of scripts . Studio-Hamburg-Atelier, 1981

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Trebitsch, Gyula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trebitsch, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2005
Place of death Hamburg