Kurt Heuser (screenwriter)

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Kurt Heuser (born December 23, 1903 in Strasbourg , † June 20, 1975 in Ebersberg ) was a German screenwriter and writer.

Life

His father Ernst Heuser died on the night of March 20, 1918 as a major on the staff of Army High Command A. The Heuser family opted for Berlin from what was then Alsace-Lorraine . Kurt Heuser's stepfather, bank director Johann Baptist Rath ("Onkel Bat") made it possible for Kurt Heuser to visit the elite Arndt-Gymnasium in Berlin-Dahlem between 1919 and 1922. At the Arndt-Gymnasium, Kurt Heuser was in its theater group and in the “Literary Association” ". After an apprenticeship in a bank and a law degree, Heuser was to pursue a banking career like his stepfather. However, he decided to train as a tropical farmer at the German colonial school in Witzenhausen and went to Portuguese East Africa in the second half of the 1920s . As a cotton planter , he found writing there. His experiences in the colony gave him the material for several novels and stories. These included ivory for Felicitas (1928), The Journey into the Interior (1931), the Bush War and the allegorical social novel, written at home beyond Africa, Adventure in Vineta (1932). In 1974, the Africa novel Malabella - the story of a plantation - was written as a life's work . His best-known text is the lyrics for So oder So life is in the UFA film Love, Death and the Devil .

In 1930 Heuser returned from Africa and was warmly welcomed by the publishing house and the Fischer family . The Neue Rundschau had already printed some works during his time in the colony. Heuser then began a career as a screenwriter under National Socialism, which quickly made him popular. His attitude towards National Socialism is described as negative. B. by Carl Zuckmayer in his " Secret Report " and Gottfried B. Fischer. Kurt Heuser helped the Jewish Fischer family to escape and rejected Joseph Goebbels ' offer to write the screenplay for Jud Suss . Marcel Reich-Ranicki calls this a "historical no" in his obituary for Heuser. The fact that his texts had a connection with National Socialism is shown on the one hand by his success in the Nazi film business with propaganda films such as "Attention! The enemy is listening" and on the other hand by his work "Campaign against England", which was reissued for the Wehrmacht. Together with his co-author Harald Bratt , Heuser wrote the role of Ohm Krüger in the Nazi propaganda film of the same name for the actor Emil Jannings according to his ideas, which Jannings denied, in contradiction to Joseph Goebbels' notes. New research by Janos Riesz suggests that Goebbels changed the script so decisively that it only came to his anti-British propaganda, which Heuser had never intended. This emerges from a justification by Heuser, although it can be added that the fabric tradition in Germany at that time already had anti-British potential.

After 1945 Heuser continued to work as a screenwriter. He was in contact with many German-speaking filmmakers and writers and took part in Group 47 conferences. His last work "Malabella" could not follow up on his first successes as an author. B. was highly praised by Christa Rotzoll in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Scripts

Radio play music

Exhibitions

  • 2018: Kurt Heuser - Life and Work , Gallery in the Town Hall, Ebersberg

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 663.
  • Schoepp, Sebastian: The journey into the interior, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Landkreise, Ebersberg, January 4, 1997, p. 2.
  • Bermann Fischer, Gottfried: Obituary for Kurt Heuser (died June 27, 1975), in: Die Neue Rundschau 86, 3, 1975, p. 543.

Individual evidence

  • Article by Kaspar Heuser in the Ebersberger Zeitung from 9./10. July 2005
  • FAZ, June 27, 1975 (quote from the obituary by Marcel Reich-Ranicki)
  1. ^ Catalog of the German National Library http://d-nb.info/gnd/133374386
  2. ^ City of Ebersberg: Death certificate of March 29, 1918 of the Army Doctor Army Dept. A in AHQu.
  3. ↑ Kurt Heuser - Life and Work (1903 - 1975) Catalog for the exhibition in the town hall Ebersberg 28.09.-30.11.2018 - documents and materials on the life and work of Kurt Heuser - presented and explained by János Riesz (ed.), János Riesz , Verlag Lutz Garnies, Haar / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-926163-97-4 , page 8
  4. ↑ Kurt Heuser - Life and Work (1903 - 1975) Catalog for the exhibition in the town hall Ebersberg 28.09.-30.11.2018 - documents and materials on the life and work of Kurt Heuser - presented and explained by János Riesz (ed.), János Riesz , Verlag Lutz Garnies, Haar / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-926163-97-4 , page 8
  5. ↑ Kurt Heuser - Life and Work (1903 - 1975) Catalog for the exhibition in the town hall Ebersberg 28.09.-30.11.2018 - documents and materials on the life and work of Kurt Heuser - presented and explained by János Riesz (ed.), János Riesz , Verlag Lutz Garnies, Haar / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-926163-97-4 , page 8
  6. ↑ Cf. Bermann Fischer, Gottfried: Threatened - Preserved. The way of a publisher, Frankfurt a. M .: Fischer 1971, p. 73.
  7. ↑ See Reich-Ranicki, Marcel: Historisches No. Kurt Heuser died, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 145 of June 27, 1975, p. 21.
  8. ↑ Cf. Ebner, Timm: National Socialist Colonial Literature. Colonial and anti-Semitic traitor figures “behind the scenes of the world theater”, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2016 (Genozid und Gedächtnis), pp. 248–249.
  9. ↑ See Riesz, János (ed.): Kurt Heuser. Life and Work (1903–1975), Munich: Verlag Lutz Garnies 2018, pp. 131–133.
  10. ↑ Cf. Parr, Rolf: The foreign as home. Heimatkunst, colonialism, expeditions, Konstanz: Konstanz University Press 2014, pp. 108–114.
  11. ↑ Cf. Rotzoll, Christa: With swing and color. Kurt Heuser's novel “Malabella”, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 281 of December 4, 1974, p. 26.
  12. ↑ https://www.ebersberg.de/deutsch/kultur-geschichte/galerien-im-rathaus.html
  13. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/ebersberg/vernissage-am-donnerstag-ein-schatz-ist-gehoben-1.4140178
  14. ↑ Kurt Heuser - Life and Work (1903 - 1975) Catalog for the exhibition in the town hall Ebersberg 28.09.-30.11.2018 - documents and materials on the life and work of Kurt Heuser - presented and explained by János Riesz (ed.), János Riesz , Verlag Lutz Garnies, Haar / Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-926163-97-4

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personal data
SURNAME Heuser, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1975
Place of death Ebersberg