Hans H. Zerlett

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Hans Heinz Zerlett (born October 17, 1892 in Wiesbaden ; † July 6, 1949 in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald ) was a German screenwriter and director . As a lyricist, he used the pseudonym Hans Hannes .

Life

Hans H. Zerlett was the son of a music director and a brother of the screenwriter Walter Zerlett-Olfenius .

Hans H. Zerlett initially worked as a theater actor. He was a soldier in World War I , but was discharged prematurely from military service due to illness. After the war, he gradually switched from portrayal to work as a dramaturge in the field of the author and wrote revues , hit texts and for cabaret . He sold his first film script in 1927.

During the Nazi era , he directed 25 films. He was a member of the NSDAP and a close friend of the NS cultural politician Hans Hinkel .

In 1934, Zerlett made his debut as a film director with the Karl Valentin short film Im Schallplattenladen and the comedy There was something wrong with Viktor de Kowa and Adele Sandrock . Zerlett's greatest successes were in 1936 the medical drama Doctor Out of Passion and in 1938 the revue film The Stars Shine , with La Jana . From July 1937 he was head of production at Tobis for one year . In the period that followed, Zerlett also made propaganda films , such as the anti-Semitic music film Robert and Bertram in 1939 and the film Venus on trial (1941), which was directed against so-called “ degenerate art ” .

At the end of the 1930s, Hans Zerlett maintained friendly contacts with prominent athletes such as Gustav Jaenecke , Gottfried von Cramm , Rudolf Caracciola , Max Schmeling , the actor Hans Albers and the singer Michael Bohnen , with whom he regularly met at a Berlin regulars' table in the "Roxy- Sportbar "in Joachimstaler Strasse. In the fall of 1938, however, this burst after a heated debate about the imminent danger of war. Due to a denunciation from the circle of friends, the Gestapo found out about it and arrested the landlady of the bar and the actor Rolf von Goth the next day . Shortly before the Second World War , the UFA director settled in Bad Saarow near Berlin and bought the villa of his friend Max Schmeling there. With Schmeling and his wife Anny Ondra he had made the feature film Knockout - A young girl, a young man in 1935 . In 1936, Zerlett was also the director of the documentary Max Schmeling's Sieg - A German Victory .

On January 23, 1946, he was arrested and interned by the Soviet NKVD in Bad Saarow . In the special camp Jamlitz he belonged to the culture group . He performed a similar function after a prisoner transport from spring 1947 in the Soviet special camp Mühlberg , where he was able to stage his play Man in the Moon in the Kultura . He died of tuberculosis in 1949 after being transported again to the Buchenwald special camp as a result of the prison conditions .

Stage plays (selection)

  • 1921: My wife, the young lady
  • 1922: The ban on love
  • 1922: The first night
  • 1924: My bride ... your bride
  • 1924: The radio girl
  • 1924: The Molly scandal
  • 1926: The light Isabell
  • 1926: The dancing fräuleins
  • 1927: Pit Pit

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 681.
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 680.
  3. ↑ http://www.cinegraph.de/kongress/02/k15_04.html
  4. ↑ cf. Almond, Jessica: Of eternal friendships and an evil informer [...] . In: Die Welt of October 12, 2005, Sport, p. 25
  5. ↑ cf. Flames destroy Schmeling Villa . In: Berliner Zeitung, August 15, 2001, Local
  6. ↑ Andreas Weigelt: There are no retraining camps. On the history of the Soviet special camp No. 6 in Jamlitz 1945–1947 . Brandenburg State Center for Civic Education, Potsdam 2001, ISBN 3-932502-29-9 , p. 76 ( PDF file, 1.46 MB ( memento of the original from September 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politische-bildung-brandenburg.de
  7. ↑ Kilian, Achim: Mühlberg: 1939-1948. Böhlau publishing house. Cologne. Weimar. 2001, ISBN 3-412-10201-6 p. 318
personal data
SURNAME Zerlett, Hans H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zerlett, Hans Heinz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1949
Place of death Special camp No. 2 Buchenwald