Jürgen von Alten

Jürgen Claus Eugen von Alten (born January 12, 1903 in Hanover ; † February 28, 1994 in Lilienthal ) was a German actor , screenwriter and film director .

family

He came from the old Hanoverian noble family von Alten and was the son of the landlord and lieutenant general Benedix Wilhelm Karl von Alten (1852-1937), landlord on Dunau , and Maria Schmidt von Schwind (1870-1954).

He married Hilde Seipp (1909–1999) in Berlin on May 22, 1937 , the daughter of the master craftsman Wilhelm Seipp and Alma's son.

life and work

Alten broke off his studies and took acting lessons, which he - since his parents did not support this career - had to finance himself. A traineeship at the Städtische Bühnen Hannover , which he began in 1923, was followed by a quick stage career that eventually led him to Berlin. In 1931 he made his debut in Gustav Ucicky's Prussian film Yorck . Even before the " seizure " of the Nazis he was a member of the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization . In 1933 he became director of the Dresden Komödienhaus and from 1935 to 1936 director of the Berlin Schiller Theater . In between, in January 1934, was his most important theater directing work : with Gustaf Gründgens he staged Hermann von Boetticher's Friedrich the Great. Part II: The King at the State Theater in Berlin . He also joined the Reich Association of German Writers (RDS).

Alten began his career as a film director in 1936, when, after an assistant director and first short films, he was entrusted with directing the crime film Stronger than Paragraphs by Berlin-based Minerva-Tonfilm GmbH ; until 1942, an average of two films followed each year, including comedies, homeland films and others Thrillers that were consistently created for smaller film companies. In addition, Alten made countless short films , which the FDF commissioned him with since 1935 and Terra Film from 1938 . He created several television games for the young Berlin TV station Paul Nipkow .

Alten, who described himself as a “naturally grown anti-Semite” in 1935, not only directed the anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda film Togger (1937), but also the militaristic adventure film In Secret Mission (1938), the barracks comedy Das Gewehr über, rich in Nazi ideology ! (1939) and the home front film Six Days Home Leave (1941). After the complete nationalization of the film industry, he was only able to make one film in 1942 before he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

After the end of the war, Alten turned back to theater work and founded the Kammerspiele Hannover and the Hannoversche Drama School. After the theater was closed in 1949 and the school was incorporated into the Academy for Art and Theater, he returned to film in 1950, initially as a director and from 1957 again as an actor. For his performance in the short film Die Geige , he received the Gold Film Ribbon in 1987 .

Jürgen von Alten worked for television in the series Till, the boy next door (1967/68).

Filmography

Motion pictures and television games

1931: Yorck ( Gustav Ucicky ) - actor
1935/36: Mädchenräuber ( Fred Sauer ) - assistant director
1935/36: Kvinderoverne assistant director
1936: Susanne im Bade - director, screenplay
1936: Stronger than paragraphs - directing
1936/37: Togger - director
1937: Homesick - directed
1937: The beaver fur - director
1938: But my dear Mr. Neumann
1938: On a secret mission - direction, screenplay
1938: Nice rest
1938: The deceived caliph
1938: The village barber
1938: family on order
1938: Men shouldn't be left alone
1938: Pitty
1938: Like an egg to the other
1939: A doctor's novel - directed
1939: Parkstrasse 13. Interrogation at midnight - director
1939: The rifle over! - director
1939: Possibly. late marriage not excluded
1939: The hundred marks are gone
1939: Uncle Fridolin
1939/40: Angelika - director
1940: The Funny Vagabonds - director
1939/40: Rote Mühle - director
1941: In the evening on the Heide - director
1941: Six days home leave - director
1941: Sonntagskinder - director
1942/43: Journey into adventure - direction, screenplay
1950/51: Hearts in the Storm - direction, screenplay
1950: The stars don't lie. Mr. Megelein cannot be spoken to - direction, screenplay
1953: The big debt - screenplay, artistic direction
1955: Small town - really big - director
1955: The Lady of the Sölderhof - director, screenplay
1956: Tischlein deck dich - director
1957: The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats - Actor
1959: O these Bavarian actors
1962: Axel Munthe - The Doctor of San Michele - Actor
1967/68: Till, the boy next door (TV series)
1968: Country doctor Dr. Brock ; Episode: The Old Mill (TV series) - Actor
1975: Decided and announced - shots at dawn - performers
1980: Totally icy - Actor
1980/81: Without a return ticket - actors
1981: The King and His Fool
1981: I can confess to you - actors
1983: One Love in Germany - Actor
1984/85: The Death of the White Horse - Actor
1987: Helsinki Napoli - All Night Long - cast member
1988: The Rosenhain - actor

Short feature films

1932: Well, wonderful! - Actor
1935: The Gift - Director
1936: How do I impress my wife - director
1936: A bet for a kiss - director
1936: registry office 10.15 a.m. - director
1936: Specialist for everything - directing
1936: Potpourri - director
1936: The Locomotive Bride - Director
1935/36: Horch ', horch', die Lerch 'in the ether blue - director
1936: Marriage Office Fortuna - director
1935/36: Die Hasenpfote - director
1935/36: Better man seeks connection - director
1936: Good evening - good night - director
1936: Five people are looking for a union - director (screenplay by Marta Wolter )
1936: Hit-and-run director
1936: Der Dickschädel - director
1936: District representatives wanted - director
1935/36: "Here Schiller is wrong ..." - director
1935/36: The last greetings from Marie. A criminal case from 1931 - directed
1936: The ox menu - director
1936: The Silver Spoon - Director
1936: The theater director - directing
1937: The lucky finder - director
1938: Like peas in another - director
1938: dreams are foams - director
1938: Pitty - director, screenplay
1938: Men shouldn't be left alone - director
1938: A Song of Love - directed
1938: Little Intermezzo - director
1938: quartered at Klawunde - director
1938: The Conceited Sick - Director
1938: The Deceived Caliph - director
1938: Pleasant rest - director
1938: But my dear Mr. Neumann - director
1938: The Lost Smile - director, screenplay
1938: Die Moritat vom Biedermann - director
1938: Ida - director
1938: who are you? - Director, screenplay
1938: The Boccherini Minuet - direction, screenplay
1938: The Wrong Admiral - director, screenplay
1938: Half the way. 33 minutes in Grüneberg - direction, screenplay
1938: The Sword of Damocles - director, screenplay
1938: Family made to order - directed
1938: The village barber - director
1938: Haydn's last visitor - director, screenplay
1938: Dear Visitor - director
1939: The Stilett - Director
1939: Uncle Fridolin - director
1938/39: The hundred marks are gone - director
1939: Possibly. later marriage not excluded - director
1939: Die Brezel - director, screenplay
1949/50: Luck comes overnight - director
1982: Foxi (written and directed by Eberhard Weißbarth )
1985: The violin (director: Rudolf Ruzicka) - actor

About Jürgen von Alten

1996: "Documentary about Jürgen von Alten" Nobility obliges "by Jürgen Karl Klauss

literature

Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume XV, page 36, volume 71 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1979, ISSN 0435-2408 .
Rolf Aurich, Susanne Fuhrmann, Pamela Müller (Red.): Dreams of film. Cinema in Hanover 1896–1991. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Theater am Aegi from October 6 to November 24, 1991. Society for Film Studies, Hanover 1991, p. 144f.
CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Film, Lg. 28. Munich: edition text + kritik 1996.

Web links

Jürgen von Alten in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

^ ^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. 14.
↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society. With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Alten, von, Jürgen, S. 15 .
↑ Uwe Klöckner-Draga : Renate Müller: Your life a tightrope act; a German film star who was not allowed to love a Jew! Verlag Kern, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 978-3-939478-01-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Alten, Jürgen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Alten, Jürgen Claus Eugen von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor, screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	February 28, 1994
Place of death	Lilienthal near Bremen

[Klee14-1] 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. 14.

[2] Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society. With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Alten, von, Jürgen, S. 15 .

[Klöckner-Draga14-3] Uwe Klöckner-Draga : Renate Müller: Your life a tightrope act; a German film star who was not allowed to love a Jew! Verlag Kern, Bayreuth 2006, ISBN 978-3-939478-01-0 .