Kurt Bortfeldt

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Kurt Paul Wilhelm Bortfeldt (born April 30, 1907 in Hamburg , † June 9, 1981 in East Berlin ) was a German theater actor , writer and screenwriter .

Live and act

The son of a pastry chef attended high school and then received an acting training. At the age of 20 he played at Hamburg's Thalia Theater, and in the early 1930s Bortfeldt worked at the Würzburg City Theater. In the 1931/32 season, the Hamburg native was committed to the Intimate Theater of the City of Nuremberg, where he worked as a dramaturge and set designer. Afterwards (1933) he returned to the stage and initially belonged to the ensemble of the Prussian Theater of Youth.

Bortfeldt remained listed as an actor until 1938, but in the same decade Bortfeldt began to write plays. In the following decades he published a. a. the works "Fall nach oben", "For your sake", "Shooting gallery figures" and "This is theft". Kurt Bortfeldt managed to gain access to film during the Third Reich. His second work, the Marika Rökk music revue Hab 'mich lieb! , should prove to be a great success with the public. After the war, Bortfeldt initially worked for the German cinema before settling in Berlin-Grünau at the beginning of the 1950s and from then on writing for DEFA .

One of his outstanding works here was the screenplay for the anti-war film "Deceived until Judgment Day", which was released in 1957. It became the first film that DEFA submitted to the Cannes International Film Festival in the competition for the Palme d'Or. Due to protests on the part of the federal government, which insisted on its claim to sole representation in Cannes, the film could ultimately only be shown there in the framework program.

Bortfeldt's early manuscripts for films made by the GDR state company were initially mainly directed by Herbert Ballmann and dealt with various topics. He wrote for fairy tales as well as for music and children's films, but also for contemporary dramas, occasionally productions with a communist-tendentious tenor. Since 1959, his manuscripts have mainly been used in GDR television films. Bortfeldt was also a lecturer at the German Academy for Film Art in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1957 to 1960 .

Filmography

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 167 f.

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Bortfeldt on literaturport.de
personal data
SURNAME Bortfeldt, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bortfeldt, Kurt Paul Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor, writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1981
Place of death GDR