Heinz Goldberg (screenwriter)

Heinz Goldberg (born May 30, 1891 in Königsberg ; † July 2, 1969 in Berlin ) was a German theater director and screenwriter .

Life

After studying and doing his doctorate, Goldberg began an acting career in 1913 at the Rhein-Mainischer Verbandstheater in Frankfurt am Main . From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War.

In 1919 he returned to the stage at the Fantastic Theater Berlin. In 1920 he became director of the New People's Theater together with Emil Berisch. In 1922 he went to the Renaissance Theater as a director , and in 1925 he became director and dramaturge at the Lessing Theater .

In 1922 he wrote and directed the artist biography Paganini for the film with Conrad Veidt as the title hero. In the following years Goldberg participated as an author or co-writer on numerous screenplays. His oeuvre is very diverse, in addition to comedies and horror stories such as Eerie Stories , he also wrote the politically explosive subjects Dreyfus and 1914, the last days before the world fire .

Because of his Jewish origins, he had to leave Germany after the Nazis " seizure of power " in 1933 and went to Vienna . His last film script was written there in 1935. In 1936/37 he was briefly in the Soviet Union , where he worked on a Heine project with Walter Haenisch, who was murdered a short time later, but returned to Vienna at the time of the annexation of Austria . Goldberg was able to escape to London via Switzerland and France in 1939 . In the emigration there, you only heard of attempts to return to work in the theater sector. In 1956 Goldberg returned to Germany and settled in West Berlin.

His uncles were the opera singer Albert Goldberg and the actor Jacques Goldberg .

Filmography

1923: Paganini (also director) 1923: Der Geldteufel (also director) 1925: Elegant pack 1924: rags and silk 1925: The general manager 1928: A woman of stature 1928: The little slave 1929: Children of the street 1930: The last company 1930: Dreyfus 1930: 1914, the last days before the world fire 1930: The man who committed the murder 1931: Danton

1931: As poor as a church mouse 1932: What does Uncle Emil say about it? 1932: Lies on Rügen 1932: Chauffeur Antoinette 1932: Holzapfel knows everything 1932: Eerie stories 1933: crooks honor 1933: A song goes around the world 1933: The Flower of Hawaii 1935: last love 1936: Today is the best day of my life 1936: Merijntje Gijzen's Jeugd

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. 200.

Web links

• Heinz Goldberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Heinz Goldberg at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Today is the best day of my life!" In:  Neue Freie Presse , May 28, 1936, p. 12 (online at ANNO ).