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Otto Eis , also Osso van Eyss , (born March 19, 1903 as Otto Eisler in Budapest , † May 12, 1952 in Hollywood , Los Angeles , United States ) was an Austrian screenwriter .

Life

The son of a building contractor initially wrote newspaper articles, humor, stories and detective novels, some of them in collaboration with his younger brother Egon Eis . At the end of the twenties he followed Egon to Berlin. With the beginning of the sound film era, Eis was involved in four film scripts, always at Egon's side. His last involvement in a German production was the story for Alfred Zeisler's production Der Stern von Valencia , which he produced with Rudolf Katscher .

Following the seizure of power in 1933, the Jewish brothers Otto and Egon went to Vienna . Otto wrote a few plays there. One of them, which he wrote in collaboration with Egon and Gina Kaus , was made into a film in France in 1937 under the title Prison sans barreaux . Another piece of water for Canitoga (1936), written together with Egon and Hans J. Rehfisch , was filmed with Hans Albers in 1938/39 with great success in Germany with Hans Albers without naming the ostracized original authors .

After the annexation of Austria , Otto Eis fled to Paris in 1938 . There he was initially interned in 1940 as an "enemy alien". In the same year, however, together with Oskar Karlweis and his fellow author Friedrich Torberg, he managed to escape to Cuba and the USA via Spain and Portugal, where he arrived in March 1941. Otto Eis had great difficulties finding a job in his traditional profession. In Hollywood he was only allowed to write treatments for films that were never supposed to be shot. Some of them were created in collaboration with Egon. In 1941 Otto Eis provided the story for the B-Picture I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island .

In 1948 there was the only participation in a screenplay in Hollywood, Big Jack , which he wrote under the pseudonym Osso van Eyss with two co-authors. Otto Eis died completely forgotten and largely destitute four years later.

Filmography

only scripts (no story templates)

• 1931: The paw
• 1931: The zinc man
• 1932: Participant does not answer
• 1932: Shot at dawn
• 1949: Big Jack

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date according to filmportal.de, IMDB names January 14th

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. 570.

Web links

• Otto ice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Otto Eis at filmportal.de
• Otto and Egon Eis in the crime dictionary
• Otto and Egon Eis at Thomas Sessler Verlag (PDF; 28 kB)