Hans Jacoby (screenwriter)

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Hans Jacoby (born October 23, 1904 in Breslau ; † October 31, 1963 in Zurich ) was a German screenwriter .

Life

He came to film in the late 1920s when he wrote his first screenplay, Sensation im Wintergarten , with Georg C. Klaren . In the early 1930s he sold some stories to film production companies without being named as an author on film adaptations. He was still at the beginning of his career, he fled to the " seizure " of the Nazis in 1933 from Germany to Spain . There he wrote the screenplay for Doña Francisquita (1934) for fellow emigrant Hans Behrendt . Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish civil war , Jacoby emigrated to Rome and finally to Paris. There he called himself Jean Jacobi or Jean Jacot - the latter pseudonym mainly in films by Gregor Rabinowitsch, who also fled from Germany . The beginning of the Second World War prevented further work in France. In 1941 he managed to escape to the United States , where he got a job with Universal Pictures . He later worked as a co-screenwriter for other film companies, including three Tarzan films. During the period when National Socialism and World War II shaped the image of Germany, he mostly changed his German name “Hans” to “John”.

Hans Jacoby experienced his most successful period after his return to Germany, starting with writing the scripts for several films with Heinz Rühmann between 1957 and 1961. Most recently Jacoby often worked together with his colleague István Békeffy . Hans Jacoby died a month before the premiere of his last film, the comedy It was a pleasure for me .

Filmography (selection)

Selection of films for which Hans Jacoby wrote the script. Films in which Hans Jacoby was the source of ideas or stories but not the scriptwriter are not mentioned, as are those films at the beginning of the 1930s, when Hans Jacoby sold his scripts to various film companies and was not mentioned as a scriptwriter:

literature

  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 259 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

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personal data
SURNAME Jacoby, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1963
Place of death Zurich