Johannes Brandt (screenwriter)

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Johannes Brandt (born October 31, 1884 in Vienna ; † February 20, 1955 there ) was an Austrian author of the stage , screenplay and radio play , songwriter and film director .

Life

Brandt studied German and musicology and obtained a doctorate in both subjects. He began to write as a theater critic and was appointed editor-in-chief of the specialist magazine Filmkurier after the First World War .

From then on he also wrote scripts and sometimes directed it himself. As a freelance writer, he has created several operetta libretti and comedies, including Der liebe, gute Florian ; Marja ; The carousel of love ; Little adventure ; Over and over again love and bobby's last night . He wrote texts for songs by the composers Otto Stransky ( When you lose your heart ) and Nikolaus Brodszky ( girl, that's you ; what can be as beautiful as your love ). He was temporarily chief dramaturge at the Vienna Theater in the Josefstadt .

After the so-called seizure of power by the National Socialists, Brandt left Germany. When war broke out in 1939, he was interned in France. In the post-war period he worked, among other things, as a radio play author. In 1953, he won third prize in a Vienna operetta competition with the libretto for his operetta The Great Comedian .

Filmography (as a screenwriter)

  • 1919: Miss Sarah Sampson
  • 1919: The dead return - Enoch Arden
  • 1920: Dawning nights
  • 1920: The Three Dances of Mary Wilford
  • 1920: The adventurer of Paris
  • 1920: The hunt for death
  • 1920: The blood of the ancestors
  • 1920: Puppets of the Devil (Director)
  • 1920: The Seven Faces (Director)
  • 1921: The black face
  • 1921: Ash Wednesday
  • 1921: The red witch
  • 1921: Ebbe und Flut (director) - Vera-Filmwerke
  • 1921: The house of Dr. Gaudeamus
  • 1922: The Call of Fate
  • 1922: Felicitas Grolandin
  • 1923: The Woman King
  • 1926: The blatant fox
  • 1926: Trude, the sixteen year old
  • 1926: I had a comrade
  • 1927: The standard bearer of Sedan (also director)
  • 1927: In camera
  • 1927: hotel rats
  • 1927: What the children keep from their parents
  • 1929: The white roses from Ravensberg
  • 1929: Women on the brink
  • 1930: The other
  • 1931: your boy
  • 1931: The Song of Nations
  • 1931: street hit
  • 1931: Hurray - a boy!
  • 1932: Under a false flag
  • 1932: Gitta discovers her heart
  • 1932: They - or none
  • 1933: The Leuthen Choral

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. P. 112, ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Kay Less: The large personal dictionary of the film . IMDb, however, gives March 10, 1955 as the date of death.
  2. ↑ When you lose your heart. Song u. Tango ad Gitta Alpár sound film the Froelich film “Die oder keine” (Otto Stransky - Dr. Johannes Brandt) Gitta Alpár with Odeon artist orchestra. Lead Kapellmstr. Otto Dobrindt . Odeon O-11706 a (mx. Be 10032-2). 1932, to be heard on youtube
  3. ↑ Girl, that's you. Foxtrot ad Carl Froelich Film “Gitta discovers her heart” (music: N.Brodzsky, text: Dr. Joh. Brandt) Eric Harden with s. Dance orchestra, with singing: Max Mensing. Gloria GO10 286 b (mx.Bi 604), up. 1932, to be heard on youtube
  4. ↑ What can be as beautiful as your love. Song u. Along. Waltz from the sound film “Gitta discovers her heart” (Nikolaus Brodszky - Joh.Brandt) Gitta Alpar with orchestra under the direction of Frieder Weissmann . Parlophone B.48176-I (mx. 133.476), open. 1932, to be heard on youtube
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian playwright, scriptwriter and radio play author, songwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1955
Place of death Vienna