Hans Karl Breslauer

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Hans Karl Breslauer (born June 2, 1888 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary as Johann Karl Breslauer , † April 15, 1965 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian actor , film director , screenwriter and writer .

Live and act

Beginning of acting career

Hans Karl Breslauer was the son of a coffee house owner. Instead of taking over his father's coffeehouse , he decided on a career as an actor. He received his first engagements in Cologne , Wiesbaden and Vienna. From 1910, Breslauer worked as a screenwriter in Berlin . He wrote around 40 film manuscripts for the film companies Duskes , Meßter , Vitascope , Mutoscope and Biograph . As early as 1914, he is said to have accepted his first directorial work at Sascha-Film in Vienna, but this has been called into question due to the lack of evidence for directing work in those years. However, there is evidence of an acting role in the Viennese Regent film production Too Late Atoned (1916).

Career as a film director

Breslauer's first proven directorial work was in 1918 the Sascha-Film-Produktion your best role .

After the First World War , Breslauer worked as a director for the Leyka and Biehl films. In 1919/1920 he was Vice President of the Austrian Film Directors Club. From 1921 onwards, Breslauer worked regularly for Mondial-Film , under whose roof he founded his own film production company, HKB-Film . Her first films were Lieb 'mich, und die Welt ist mein (1924) and Strandgut (1924), which he shot in Corsica and the Riviera in 1923 . He was also responsible for the script for some productions, such as Oh, du dear Augustin (1922).

At the end of 1923, Breslauer began filming Hugo Bettauer's successful novel Die Stadt ohne Juden . Both the book and the film can be read today like a premonition of events in Europe from 1933 onwards, but were intended for entertainment and a broad reception. Breslauer changed some details during the filming, which meant that Bettauer deliberately used allusions and references to reality. The most striking example of this approach is the change in the name of the city in which the action takes place from “Vienna” to “Utopia”. These deviations from the novel were intended to reduce the film's political explosiveness. Nevertheless, incidents with National Socialists occurred during some screenings of the film, which was not quite as successful as the book. The surviving film offers today's viewer an interesting insight into the "normality" of anti-Semitism in the 1920s.

In October 1925, Breslauer married the actress Anna Milety , who appeared in many of his films as the leading actress. After The City Without Jews , no other film work by Breslau is known. Although the film magazine Mein Film reported on a directorial work for the Sascha film production The Flying Main Hit , it apparently never came about; there is no mention in Paimann's film lists . One possible explanation for Breslauer's withdrawal from the film business is the European film crisis triggered by Hollywood , which at that time put most film nations in Europe in dire straits and also left only a few film production companies in Austria to survive.

Activity as a writer

From the 1930s onwards, there is evidence of a lively literary activity in Breslau. From 1931 to 1944 he occasionally wrote short stories for the Simplicissimus . He was a member of the Reichsschrifttumskammer and published under the pseudonym Bastian Schneider . From 1934 to 1939 he regularly wrote entertaining articles for the Pressburger Grenzbote , from 1936 to 1942 also for Das kleine Blatt in Vienna and from 1938 to 1944 for the Viennese Kleine Volks-Zeitung . From 1940 he wrote feature articles for newspapers and magazines throughout the German Reich , for example for the Breslauer Neuesten Nachrichten , the Essener Allgemeine Zeitung and the Leipziger Tageszeitung . In the same year he also joined the NSDAP .

After the end of the Second World War, Breslauer moved with his wife to Loibichl near Mondsee in Upper Austria , where he rented a guest house. He continued to publish, now also under the pseudonyms "Jenny Romberg" and "James O'Cleaner". He was denied renewed success. Hans Karl Breslauer died impoverished on April 15, 1965 in the Salzburg State Hospital.

Works

Movies

Wroclaw's film work as a director, unless otherwise stated:

  • 1916: Atoned for too late (play; director: Franz Ferdinand Bertram )
  • 1918: the baby (fragment)
  • 1918: your best role
  • 1918: Little Evchen
  • 1918: Lene or Lena
  • 1919: A visit to the Wiener Werkstätte (drama)
  • 1919: Little Pitsch as a master detective
  • 1919: At the lake of redemption
  • 1919: Uncle Toni's bridal trip
  • 1920: Jou Jou
  • 1920: Miss Cowboy
  • 1921: The Foundling of Happiness (also screenplay)
  • 1921: The Secret of the Night
  • 1921: thunderstorm approaching
  • 1921: tragedy of an ugly man
  • 1922: On the edge of the abyss
  • 1922: The Molitor House (also screenplay)
  • 1922: Oh, you dear Augustin (also screenplay)
  • 1922: Faded times
  • 1924: love me, and the world is mine (also script)
  • 1924: Strandgut (also screenplay)
  • 1924: The city without Jews (also script)

The completion of the films Pelikan (1922) and The Flying Main Hit (1926) announced in contemporary sources is not certain.

Books

  • 1941: The thirty-pfennig novel: The Egg of Columbus (crime novel)
  • 1943: love, thieves (short stories)
  • 1951: Erdball-Romane Volume 77: A little dove feather (short novel)
  • 1952: Today it is filmed in Bellevue
  • 1952: Kelter Romane Volume 132: Dr. Scarron's dark point (short novel)
  • 1952: The Jackdaw Count (as Jenny Romberg)
  • 1953: The stabbed mummy
  • 1953: Get married and don't despair
  • 1953: In the Vortex of Fate (as Jenny Romberg)
  • 1954: the most beautiful of all (romance novel)
  • 1954: The leap into the unknown (detective novel)
  • 1955: I can't forget you (short novel)
  • 1955: Longing for home (fateful novel, short novel)
  • 1956: The Heart Can Be Wrong (short novel, as Jenny Romberg)
  • 1957: Güldensee novels Volume 123: The girl from Rütihof (short novel)
  • 1957: Wolfgang Marken's novel friend Volume 134: The victim of Aglaja (short novel)
  • 1957: Wolfgang Marken's novel friend Volume 141: Playing with love (short novel)
  • 1957: Wolfgang Marken's novel friend Volume 144: The servant of his excellence (short novel)
  • 1960: The curse of the Sürch-Alp (short novel, as Jenny Romberg)
  • 1961: Familienfreund-Roman-Sheets No. 17: The Last Concert (short novel)
  • 1961: Lorelei romance novels: Where does happiness live (short novel)
  • 1963: Linden novel No. 165: Love spring in the Achental (short novel)
  • 1964: Ursel and the impostor (short novel)

literature

  • Armin Loacker: Johann Karl Breslauer. In: Guntram Geser, Armin Loacker (eds.): The city without Jews (= Edition Film and Text; 3, 2). Verlag Filmarchiv Austria , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-901932-08-9 , pp. 169-171.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ludwig Gesek (Ed.): Small Lexicon of Austrian Films. Vienna 1959, encyclopedia p. 5
  2. ^ Armin Loacker: Johann Karl Breslauer. In: Guntram Geser, Armin Loacker (ed.): The city without Jews. Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2000, pp. 169–171.
    Also in: Elisabeth Büttner, Christian Derwald, Armin Loacker: Filmhimmel Österreich 06. (pdf; 393 kB) March 2, 2005, pp. 12–14 , archived from the original on September 26, 2007 ; accessed on July 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Peter W. Marx: City without Jews: Anti-Semitism as a topic in the entertainment film of the 1920s. Brief review of Geser / Loacker “The city without Jews”, 2002.
  4. ^ Federal Archives Berlin , Files Hans Karl Breslauer.
  5. ↑ Die Stadt ohne Juden , 2000, pp. 171–173.
personal data
SURNAME Breslauer, Hans Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breslauer, HK; Breslauer, Johann Karl; Schneider, Bastian; Romberg, Jenny; O'Cleaner, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1965
Place of death Salzburg