Max chess

Max Schach (born May 2, 1886 as Max Schacherl in Zenta , Austria-Hungary , † in the summer of 1957 in London , Great Britain ) was a journalist , film producer and company manager for German and British film.

Life

Max Schach worked as a journalist at a young age and was a theater and film critic for the Berliner Tageblatt for twelve years . Towards the end of the First World War he went to UFA as a dramaturge and editor of scripts, a little later he was involved in the founding and management of the production companies Emelka and Stern-Film and became general manager of Universal Studios in Europe. Max Schach also personally produced some films by his friend and brother-in-law, the director Karl Grune .

In 1933, the Jewish chess and Grune fled from the Nazis to Britain, where chess between late 1934 and late 1937 produced a total of 18 films for his own short-lived film companies Capitol, Cecil, Trafalgar and Buckingham; primarily costume fabrics and musical romances. It all started with the exotic oriental drama “ The Red Sultan ” with Fritz Kortner, directed by Grune . Two music films with Richard Tauber , " Das singende Land " and " Der Bajazzo ", were also successful. Schach's other productions, which flooded the English film market during this period, turned out to be financial flops. The Austrian brought the financiers into considerable distress with the losses of 1.5 million pounds. As a result, the British government passed a new quota law that has severely restricted immigrants' employment since 1938. As a result, chess could no longer make a single film.

Max Schach died, completely forgotten by the industry, in London-Chelsea in the summer of 1957.

Filmography

1922: The Count of Charolais 1923: Bad weather 1923: The street 1924: Arabella, the novel of a horse 1924: comedians 1925: The city of temptation 1925: jealousy 1928: Waterloo 1935: The Red Sultan (Abdul the Damned) 1935: Moscow Nights 1935: Koenigsmark 1935: When Knights Were Bold 1935: Public Nuisance No. 1

1936: Love in Exile 1936: The Marriage of Corbal 1936: Dishonour Bright 1936: Southern Roses 1936: The Singing Land ( Land Without Music ) 1936: The Bajazzo (Pagliacci) 1936: The love of a stranger ( Love From a Stranger ) 1937: Daydreaming Eyes ( Dreaming Lips ) 1937: For Valor 1937: The Lilac Domino 1937: Jericho 1937: Mademoiselle Docteur 1938: Second Best Bed

literature

• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 438 f.

Web links

• Max Chess in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Max Schach at filmportal.de