Jacques Bachrach

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Jacques Bachrach (born October 11, 1892 in Vienna , † June 1954 in Melbourne , State of Victoria , Australia ) was an Austrian screenwriter .

Live and act

Little is known about Bachrach's early years. At the beginning of the 1920s he came across films in his hometown of Vienna and began to write scripts, often in collaboration with colleagues. Bachrach preferred to work with the director Max Neufeld . Several times he was involved in lavish and costumed productions with a historical background. During these years Bachrach was also a board member of the Filmbund .

At the end of 1928, just before the age of talkies, Jacques Bachrach moved to Berlin, where he continued his career in German film. His last two cinema works (1931/32) again supplied productions to Neufeld. As a Jew, Bachrach had to flee into exile from the National Socialists in 1933 (first Prague, then Poland). He hardly found employment in Great Britain, merely providing the story of Friedrich Zelnik's early exile director Happy (1933) and in 1935 the idea for the Jan Kiepura vocal film Schenk uns die Nacht . Interned as an " enemy alien " after the outbreak of war in 1939, British agencies deported Bachrach to Australia in 1940 with the HMT Dunera .

There he was initially interned in Tatura . In 1942 fellow prisoner Theodor Engel von Bachrach made a drawing. After the war, he decided to stay in Australia. Most recently, he lived as Jack Bachrach in the greater Melbourne area, without working again for the film. Bachrach died there in June 1954 at the age of 61. His funeral took place on June 28, 1954 in the Jewish section of the Fawkner Memorial Park.

Filmography

only as a screenwriter

  • 1922: The culprits
  • 1924: Hotel Potemkin
  • 1925: A waltz by Strauss
  • 1926: Your Highness waltzes
  • 1926: The arsonists of Europe
  • 1926: The Ballet Duke
  • 1927: Café Elektric
  • 1927: The route
  • 1927: Schwejk in civilian clothes
  • 1928: The White Sonata
  • 1928: A small advance on bliss
  • 1929: The trees bloom again in the Prater
  • 1930: Only on the Rhine
  • 1931: Opera redoubt
  • 1931: a sweet secret
  • 1932: The Orlow / The Tsar's Diamond

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. 564.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait of Bachrach
  2. ↑ Bachrach in heavenaddress.com ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heavenaddress.com

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personal data
SURNAME Bachrach, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachrach, Jack (only in Australia)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 1954
Place of death Melbourne , Victoria (Australia)