Marie Luise Droop

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Marie Luise Droop , née Marie Martha Luise Fritsch (born January 15, 1890 in Stettin , German Reich ; † August 22, 1959 in Gengenbach ) was a German author, translator, director and producer who also goes by the pseudonyms Lu Fritsch and Ludwig Fritsch worked.

Life

Marie Luise Droop was born as the daughter of the Szczecin cement manufacturer Karl Georg Fritsch and his wife Emmeline Albertine Elisabeth Conradine Most. After completing secondary school for girls in 1906, she first went to the Anglo-Continental School in Folkestone , England, and then to the Art Academy in Brussels . In 1907 she returned to Stettin and trained as a librarian with Erwin Ackerknecht .

Droop was already an admirer of Karl May as a student . She wrote to him for the first time in 1903 when she was thirteen, and this resulted in years of correspondence. In 1908 she was invited to May's hometown Radebeul and met him personally for the first time. He called her "Lu". She was his inspiration for Merhameh , the main character of his novel of the same name . When Karl May had to defend himself against character assassination in several trials, she supported him and exposed the alleged Mohawk John Ojijatheka Brant Sero, who protested against May's depiction of the Indian, as a straw man paid by May's opponent Lebius. The press therefore called her "Karl May's beautiful spy". There she met the teacher Dr. Know Adolf Droop, who has already published a book about May. They married on October 7, 1912, six months after May's death.

Droop began to write in the style of exoticism and became an editor at Ullstein Verlag . Her story The Maharaja's Favorite Wife was made into a film by Max Mack and was so successful that two sequels were shot. Around 1920 Marie Luise Droop operated as a producer with her production company Ustad-Film, Dr. Droop & Co. the first film adaptations of Karl May works . Most of her screenplays for trivial films were written in the 1920s. Her novel Kwa heri was filmed in 1934 under the title Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika by Herbert Selpin . Droop also worked as a translator from Danish , American and English . B. some crime novels by Edgar Wallace .

Filmography

  • 1916: The Maharaja's Favorite Wife, Part 1 (script, original)
  • 1917: The Maharaja's Favorite Wife, Part 2 (screenplay)
  • 1918: Hofgunst (screenplay, short film)
  • 1918: the sky ship (prologue)
  • 1918: The Seventh Kiss (screenplay)
  • 1918: Winner woman (template)
  • 1919: The Journey to Glücksland (screenplay)
  • 1919: The Rags Princess (screenplay)
  • 1919: The Orphan of Lowood (screenplay)
  • 1919: Little Beate's smile (screenplay)
  • 1919: Lykkelandet (screenplay, Denmark)
  • 1919: The Maharaja's favorite wife. Second part ( Maharadjahens Yndlingshustru II ), (screenplay, Denmark)
  • 1920: The Caravan of Death (screenplay, production)
  • 1920: Die Teufelsanbeter (screenplay, production, direction)
  • 1920: The Festival of the Black Tulip (screenplay, production, direction)
  • 1920: On the Ashes of Paradise (screenplay, production)
  • 1920: The Maharaja's Favorite Wife, Part 3 (screenplay)
  • 1921: Debt of Honor (screenplay)
  • 1921: Prometheus (screenplay)
  • 1922: Mignon (screenplay)
  • 1922: Divan Cats (screenplay)
  • 1922: Die Liebeslaube (screenplay)
  • 1923: To honor a woman (screenplay)
  • 1923: The Seeking Soul (screenplay)
  • 1923: The Rolling Fate (screenplay)
  • 1925: Ash Wednesday (screenplay)
  • 1925: The Man at Midnight (screenplay)
  • 1925: People in Need (screenplay)
  • 1925: The Iron Bride (screenplay)
  • 1925: The old ballroom (screenplay)
  • 1926: Battle of the Sexes (screenplay)
  • 1926: The Wiskottens (screenplay)
  • 1926: Strong in Loyalty (screenplay)
  • 1927: German Women - German Loyalty (screenplay)
  • 1927: The Rider's Daughter (screenplay)
  • 1927: Stolzenfels am Rhein (screenplay)
  • 1927: I stand in gloomy midnight (screenplay)
  • 1927: The girl from Frisco (screenplay)
  • 1929: Once Upon a Time there was a loyal hussar (screenplay)
  • 1929: What's wrong with Nanette? (Script)
  • 1929: The moral judge (§ 218) (script)
  • 1929: Dawn (screenplay)
  • 1929: Girl on the Cross (screenplay)
  • 1930: Storming Three Hearts (screenplay)
  • 1933: Three blue boys - one blonde girl
  • 1934: The Horsemen of German East Africa (screenplay)
  • 1936: The three around Christine (screenplay)

literature

  • Jürgen Seul : Rudolf Lebius - Karl May. The Lu-Fritsch-Affair (= legal series of the Karl-May-Gesellschaft. Vol. 3). 2nd, revised edition. Hansa-Verlag, Husum 2009, ISBN 978-3-920421-98-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hansotto Harzig: The children of Karl May. A tragedy in the May house . In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society. 1993, ISSN  0300-1989 , pp. 41-45.
  2. ↑ Stands Up for Redskin. In: The New York Times , July 1, 1910, (PDF; 60 kB).
  3. ^ Marie Luise Droop at the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Droop, Marie Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fritsch, Marie Martha Luise (maiden name); Fritsch, Lu; Fritsch, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1959
Place of death Gengenbach