Heinrich Oberländer (screenwriter)

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Heinrich Oberländer (born April 19, 1909 in Biebrich , † February 22, 2001 in Badenweiler ) was a German screenwriter .

Live and act

The Oberland native from Wiesbaden began his artistic career at the age of 18 as an assistant director and actor at the theater. Since the end of the 20s he worked in these functions, among other things, on the politically left Piscator stage in Berlin . As a result of the Nazi takeover, Oberländer fled to Vienna in 1933. In the same year there was the first script collaboration for a film ( Invisible Opponents ). After the production of Hohe Schule , he returned to the German capital in 1934 and continued his work as a screenwriter there.

After the manuscript for Jenny Jugo's love comedy Die kleine und die Große Liebe , Oberländer emigrated to France. When the war broke out, he was arrested by French authorities as an 'enemy alien' and interned in the Villerbon camp ( Dordogne department ). Since the German troops marched into Paris , Heinrich Oberländer lived there underground and made friends with the author Johannes Wüsten , who was also in hiding , and whose writings he secured against the Nazi occupation forces.

Immediately after the liberation of Paris, Oberland wrote articles for a German-language prisoner of war newspaper. He stayed in the French capital for a while before settling in Freiburg im Breisgau . In the Federal Republic of Germany, Oberländer only worked as a screenwriter once (late 1955). The result was called Frucht ohne Liebe , was a psychological marriage drama (problem film) on the subject of infertility and caused a tangible scandal when it premiered in January 1956.

Since then, Heinrich Oberländer has largely withdrawn from the public eye. In 1997 he moved from Freiburg to Badenweiler, where he died in early 2001.

Filmography (complete)

Remarks

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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. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 598.

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personal data
SURNAME Oberländer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Biebrich
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2001
Place of death Badenweiler