Kurt Nachmann

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Kurt Nachmann (born May 13, 1915 in Vienna , † March 4, 1984 in Vienna) was an Austrian screenwriter , director and actor.

Life

After completing his university studies, Nachmann received an acting training from Rudolf Beer . In 1935 he made his theatrical debut at the United German Theaters in Brno . In 1937 he played at the Vienna collective theater. He was a member of the Viennese cabaret Literatur am Naschmarkt and Der liebe Augustin . His work as an author became more and more important. Nachmann proved to be very adept at editing or re-creating cabaret and stage plays.

Kurt Nachmann's grave

After founding the Wiener Werkel cabaret in 1938, he became an unofficial in-house author alongside Fritz Eckhardt as a “ half-Jew ”. Official in-house authors were Rudolf Weys and Franz Paul. Despite its founding as a cabaret close to the NSDAP and “true to the line”, the cabaret proved to be difficult compared to the Reich ideology and its plays were often censored and sometimes banned.

In the film he initially only had inconsequential appearances as an actor, until in 1954 director Franz Antel discovered him as a screenwriter for the Austrian film . The two formed a very successful tandem for about two decades. Nachman delivered, often in cooperation with other authors, a large number of comedies of mistaken identity , romances and comedies , which were filmed by Antel and other directors. Later he successfully ventured into sex comedies such as Antel's Frau-Wirtin series and the story of Josefine Mutzenbacher .

Kurt Nachmann also wrote the lyrics for many films. The best known is probably the Mariandl song from the film Der Hofrat Geiger and its remakes. The film Die Lindenwirtin vom Donaustrand would hardly have been so successful without its song of the same name. Together with Felix Dvorak he wrote the comedy Luftangebote , which premiered in 1983 at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt with Felix Dvorak and Waltraut Haas.

Despite this constant paperwork, Nachmann, whose external trademark were the very distinctive sideburns , still found time to occasionally become active as a film director, film actor, stage actor or television actor.

It rests in an honorary grave in Vienna's central cemetery (group 40, number 121, designed by Leopold Grausam, junior ).

Filmography

presentation

script

Scripts under the pseudonym "Johannes Weiß"

Scripts under the pseudonym "Fred Wagner"

  • 1972: Fiddling also needs to be learned (also directing)

literature

  • Nachmann, Kurt , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933 - 1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 690

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Veigl : Foreword. In: Hans Veigl (Ed.): Bomb mood - Das Wiener Werkel. Cabaret in the Third Reich. , Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00581-7 , p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Nachmann, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian screenwriter, film director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 1984
Place of death Vienna