Jane Beß

Jane Beß , also Jane Bess , (born November 28, 1894 , † after 1937) was a German screenwriter .

Life

According to her own statements, she attended university and graduated with a dissertation, which, however, has not been proven. According to her, she had been working in film since 1912. Her name appeared as a screenwriter from 1919.

Jane Beß turned out to be an extremely productive silent film writer. She mainly wrote the material for crime and adventure films , as well as melodramas and comedies . According to her own account, she wrote the scripts for 128 films by 1926. However, only a good half of these are detectable. Beß delivered her scripts to various film companies and also worked as a dramaturge for one of them, Ima-Film. In this role, she worked on the submitted ideas.

Jane Beß had been married to the director of Ima-Film Alfons Fruchter since November 28, 1921 and had had a daughter since the mid-1920s. After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, she emigrated to the Netherlands. There she wrote her last screenplay in 1935. In 1937 her name reappeared in the Berlin address book with the occupation "Writer". Nothing is known about her further life.

Filmography

• 1919: In the claws of the vampire / A woman's beauty under the dissecting knife
• 1920: The death mask
• 1920: The green poster
• 1920: The secret of the midnight hour
• 1920: The Plan of Three
• 1920: The man in the trap
• 1920: The spy
• 1920: The Unknown
• 1920: human hyenas
• 1920: The secret of the Sebastopol gambling den
• 1920: The black guest
• 1920: In the gold fields of Nevada
• 1920: Apache's revenge
• 1920: Rafaello, the riddle of Copenhagen
• 1920: The horror of the millionaires
• 1921: City girls. 1st chapter
• 1921: hands up (2 parts)
• 1921: rats of the big city
• 1921: City girls. Part 2
• 1921: Lola, the Apache Bride (2 parts)
• 1921: The hunt for villains / The eight-penny girl (2 parts)
• 1921: City girls 3rd part
• 1921: Crimes on 13 Wall Street
• 1921: The criminal's son
• 1921: The child of the street (2 parts)
• 1921: The Brillantenmieze (2 parts)
• 1921: The harbor lorry (2 parts)
• 1921: The little midinette. Heard from the clothing
• 1921: raid
• 1921: morass
• 1921: Yellow Star
• 1922: fratricide
• 1922: shame
• 1922: Shameless souls or a girl trafficking
• 1922: Bummellotte
• 1922: The novel of a half-world lady
• 1922: Kaschemmengräfin
• 1922: The marriage fraud
• 1922: The cigarette countess
• 1922: In the glow of the senses (2 parts)
• 1922: The Princess of the Ocean Shipyard
• 1924: The heart of Lilian Thorland
• 1924: The rise of little Lilian
• 1925: The Morale of the Alley
• 1926: The golden butterfly
• 1926: braid and sword
• 1926: The divorced woman
• 1926: Public Prosecutor Jordan
• 1926: The laughing husband
• 1926: Dagfin
• 1926: The queen of the world bath
• 1926: Single daughters
• 1927: Babette Boberling's grooms
• 1927: radio magic
• 1927: The woman with the world record
• 1927: The leap into happiness
• 1928: Who invented cutting
• 1928: His Highness' s mistress
• 1928: The queen of his heart
• 1928: Gynecologist Dr. shepherd
• 1928: Playing with love / Harry and the impostor
• 1928: Lillebil from USA / A girl with a temper
• 1928: Alluring poison
• 1928: The Abenteuer GmbH
• 1928: The circus princess
• 1929: The woman in the gown
• 1930: Burglary in the Reichenbach bank
• 1931: The dancing hussar
• 1931: Help! Raid!
• 1932: Hasenklein can't help it
• 1935: De Kribbebijter

literature

• Hans-Michael Bock (HMB): Jane Beß - screenwriter , in CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film , volume 24 (1994), with an essay by Jürgen Kasten , volume 18 (1991)
• 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. 565.

Web links

• Jane Beß at filmportal.de
• Jane Bess in the Internet Movie Database (English)