Marie Harder
Marie Harder , also Marie M. Harder , née Maria Margarethe Harder , pseudonym Käte Kestien (born March 27, 1898 in Schleswig-Holstein , † March 26, 1936 at Popocatépetl , Mexico ) was a German author and film director .
Life
The daughter of a maid and a worker published her first poems in the Low German language in 1920 . She worked in Hamburg as a prison guard and wrote for the Hamburg foreign newspaper .
In 1929 she moved to Berlin and took over the management of the SPD's film and photography service . She was also a member of the federal board of the Arbeiter-Lichtspiel-Bund and published the communications of the film and photography service from 1929 to 1931.
Influenced by the Russian revolutionary film , she drove the expansion of SPD in-house productions. In 1929 she directed the short documentary The Way of a Proletarian for the first time . In 1930 she directed the feature film Lohnbuchhalter Kremke with Hermann Vallentin . It shows the story of an employee who is depressed after losing his job and eventually drives himself to suicide.
Because of “financial misconduct” Harder lost her offices in the film and photography service and the Arbeiter-Lichtspiel-Bund around 1931/32. Under the pseudonym "Käte Kestien" she published the novel When the men in the ditch lay about the living conditions of women during the First World War. She was killed in a plane crash.
Filmography
- 1929: The path of a proletarian
- 1930: Kremke payroll clerk
Web links
- Marie Harder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marie Harder at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harder, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harder, Marie M .; Harder, Maria Margarethe (maiden name); Kestien, Käte (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schleswig-Holstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1936 |
| Place of death | at Popocatépetl , Mexico |