Margarete M. Langen

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Margarete Maria Langen , born Margarete Noa (born June 15, 1888 in Berlin , † in the 20th century ) was a German screenwriter .

Life

Born in Berlin, she received commercial training in her father's factory and began writing at the age of 17. After the first published articles, she married the businessman Eduard Jakob Kurt Langen in 1912, two years later she was already a widow. Langen then made contact with the film industry and was able to accommodate a manuscript for a Danny Kaden film. In the same year (1917) she was hired by a film company as deputy head of advertising and the following year, the last year of the war in 1918, she was sent to Denmark with the support of the Foreign Office to review foreign propaganda films.

Back in Germany, Margarete Langen began writing film manuscripts on a regular basis in 1919, initially for Eiko-Film in Berlin. These were mostly less important productions: dramas, melodramas and occasionally also literary adaptations that she wrote alone. In later years she worked mostly with colleagues.

In 1924 she was brought to Munich as a dramaturge by Bavaria Film . In the same year she was allowed to write a script for a production with a top star ( Asta Nielsen ) with Carl Boeses Die Frau im Feuer . She returned to Berlin the following year. In 1926 Margarete Langen was also involved in the manuscript for the first Heinz Rühmann film Das deutsche Mutterherz .

After her only sound film Der Weg nach Rio , the last directorial work of her brother Manfred Noa , at whose side she had started writing continuously in 1919, Margarete Langen ended her work as a screenwriter in 1931. Nothing is currently known about her further life.

Her sister was the actress Charlotte Noa aka Loo Hardy .

Filmography

  • 1919: Modern daughters
  • 1919: Marion Bach's love
  • 1919: love
  • 1919: The girl and the men
  • 1920: hatred
  • 1920: Twilight of the idols / sacrifice of chastity
  • 1920: slide
  • 1921: Sons of the Night, two parts
  • 1923: The regatta prince
  • 1923: The inn in the Spessart
  • 1924. Slaves of love
  • 1924: The woman in the fire
  • 1924: Girls You Don't Marry
  • 1925: The Royal Grenadiers
  • 1925: The three porter girls
  • 1925: The man in the saddle
  • 1926: Circus Renz
  • 1926: The German mother's heart
  • 1926: The provincial uncle
  • 1926: The sunken fleet
  • 1927: The sinner
  • 1928: Modern pirates
  • 1928: The dashing hussar
  • 1928: Casanova's legacy
  • 1931: The way to Rio

Individual evidence

  1. Source: Birth certificate No. 1402 from June 18, 1888, Landesarchiv Berlin.
  2. Source: Marriage certificate No. 681 of September 9, 1912, Landesarchiv Berlin.

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 104

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