Kurt Reiss (director)
Kurt Reiss (* 1903 in Zweibrücken , † January 5, 1960 in Hamburg ) was a German director , actor and author .
Life
Kurt Reiss originally came off the stage before he was hired as director of the Münchner Kammerspiele . The works he staged there included:
- Escape of John Galsworthy , EA: August 24th 1928,
- The Uznach School by Carl Sternheim , EA: October 9, 1928,
- Princess Huschewind by Fritz Peter Buch , EA: December 10, 1928 and
- Cousins of Rudolf Schneider-Schelde , EA: January 13, 1929.
At the Kammerspiele he was not particularly respected. The always mocking ensemble of the house, which often expressed itself in a derogatory way, especially to guest directors, called him the rayon boss or the clothing manufacturer because of his somewhat exaggerated elegance . When he slapped his girlfriend at the time, the actress Maria Byk , on Maximilianstrasse one evening , there was a crowd. A policeman took the jealous Reiss with him to the station. The management of the Kammerspiele then took this as an external reason to fire the director for public nuisance.
According to the German Stage Yearbook , he had been an actor since 1923 and then worked at the following theaters:
- 1924: Actor at the National Theater Mannheim
- 1925–1928: Actor and in 1928 also director at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf
- 1928–1929: Director and actor at the Stadttheater Augsburg and the Munich Kammerspiele
- 1932: Director, dramaturge and actor at the New Theater in Frankfurt am Main
- 1948: Director at the Junge Bühne Goslar (as a guest)
- 1956: Director at the Theater im Zimmer , Hamburg
- 1959: Director at the Hamburger Kammerspiele (here under the name Curt Reiß)
Since 1945 he has been working as a freelancer for NWDR Hamburg and its legal successor, Norddeutscher Rundfunk . He wrote numerous scripts for radio plays and partly implemented them as a director. Later he also worked for the Bavarian Radio , the Süddeutscher Rundfunk and Radio Bremen . Occasionally he also worked as an author and director for film productions for the NDR. In an obituary, the Hamburger Abendblatt called him a “pioneer of the modern form of radio play”.
Radio plays (selection)
Director
- 1946: The Dreyfus Affair (Northwest German Broadcasting)
- 1947: Fissel and the double (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1949: The strange adventure of Mr. Bichel (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1950: General Frédéric (Northwest German Broadcasting)
- 1950: Hundred Kronen (Illusion) (Northwest German Broadcasting)
- 1951: Merlette (Northwest German Broadcasting)
- 1951: The Secret of the Yosemite Indians (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1952: The Tiger Jussuf (Northwest German Broadcasting)
- 1954: The thing with Fadenherr (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1954: Master detective Kalle Blomquist (four episodes, Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1955: The nigger on Scharhörn (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1955: The Wega company (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1955: Money does not matter (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
- 1956: File 414: Wilhelm Voigt (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1956: Schloß am Meer (Norddeutscher Rundfunk / Westdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1957: The Gulf Stream Story (Norddeutscher Rundfunk / Westdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1958: A blind man walks through the city (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1959: Brigade mediation (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1959: Alkestis (North German Radio)
- 1959: The carafe (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1959: abandonment of Siena (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1959: Under the Loofah tree (Südwestfunk)
- 1959: The Ware Book (North German Broadcasting)
- 1959: Poland (West German Broadcasting)
- 1959: The Gold Beetle (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1959: The decision (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1959: The robbers of Kardemomme (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1959: The Brothers (Jonas and Bullone) (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
- 1963: marriage school for men (Radio Bremen)
- 1963: Caesar and Cleopatra (Radio Bremen)
script
- 1947: Fissel and the double (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1947: Hello, are you still listening? (Northwest German Broadcasting)
- 1947: The frog on the ladder (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1947: The Witcher (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1948: Eh 'the ears are still ripe (with Dieter Rohkohl , Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1952: The Paradise of the Fat (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1953: Queen Victoria - One Penny (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
- 1953: The match without a head (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
- 1953–1954: Master detective Camel Bluff (seven episodes, Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1954: Texas Romance (Northwest German Broadcasting)
- 1955: Heavenly Romance (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1955: Money does not matter (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
- 1955: Three ladies in a closet (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1956: Da Capo (Süddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1957: Murder on the Matterhorn (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1957: The night before the wedding (Radio Bremen)
- 1958: Event in FD 411 (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
- 1963: marriage school for men (Radio Bremen)
- 1963: Caesar and Cleopatra (Radio Bremen)
- 1965: Is that the possibility (Radio Bremen)
- 1965: Camel Bluff. Experiences of a super detective (six episodes, Radio Bremen)
Filmography (selection)
Director
- 1951: From manuscript to radio play
- 1955: Trial in major
- 1959: Tim and the subservient spirits
script
- 1953: Next, please!
Web links
- Kurt Reiss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kurt Reiss at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Kurt Reiss died at Abendblatt.de, accessed on July 31, 2015
- ^ Wolfgang Petzet: Theater - Die Münchner Kammerspiele 1911 - 1972. Kurt Desch Verlag, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-420-04656-1 , page 193
- ↑ ARD audio game database at dra.de, accessed on July 31, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reiss, Kurt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Go ahead, Curt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, actor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zweibrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 1960 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |