Otto Heinz Jahn

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Otto Heinz Jahn , also known as Ottoheinz Jahn (* 1906 ; † September 1953 near Hamburg ), was a German journalist , film functional , film dramaturge , radio editor and screenwriter .

Live and act

Little is known about Jahn's origins and his early years. He began his professional career as a journalist. He quickly made a career in the Third Reich. He spoke the commentary on the 54-minute propaganda documentary film Hands at Work , which was published in 1935 and was commissioned by the Reich Propaganda Management of the NSDAP , and in 1937 was promoted to chief dramaturge of their film-making group at this department. In 1938 Jahn was commissioned with the production of documentary Nazi propaganda films , for example on the connection with Austria ( word and deed ), and was assistant director for two other documentaries at the beginning of the Second World War . As a result of the forced resignation (1940) of the cinematic dilettante Ernst Leichtenstern, he was promoted to head of production at UFA , before he was even brought to the board of this company a little later. During this time, Jahn continued to work as a journalist and wrote, for example, the work “About the young actors” published in 1942 (in the publication “Der deutsche Film. Zeitschrift für Filmkunst und Filmwirtschaft”, issue 1, Berlin July 1942). In 1943 Otto Heinz Jahn became head of production at Berlin-Film .

Immediately after the war, Otto Heinz Jahn became artistic director of the Berlin CCC-Film of the Jewish Holocaust survivor Artur Brauner, despite his recent top career in Nazi film , where he also worked on the production of a Holocaust film ( Morituri ). Then Jahn settled in Hamburg and found a job as a lecturer at the NWDR . At the same time he began to write screenplays again for two Holocaust survivors ( Gyula Trebitsch and Walter Koppel from Real-Film ) - in 1952 he was the focus of a plagiarism allegation with the railway melodrama Lockende Sterne - until he was accused of plagiarism in 1953 was killed near the Hanseatic city. At this point he had just drafted a script for the Schnulze The man of my life , drawn by the critics as "joyless" and "morally pissed off". His script for Ännchen von Tharau , an extremely soulful love film “with everything that goes with it: heart, pain, folk songs, traditional costumes, ideal area”, was only implemented after his death. Otto Heinz Jahn was in a relationship with the actress Maria Milde until the very end.

Filmography

As a screenwriter unless otherwise stated

literature

  • Glenzdorfs Internationales Film-Lexikon, second volume, Bad Münder 1961, p. 749

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ People's voice: Simply the force . Article in Der Spiegel 3/1950
  2. ↑ Elke Fröhlich (ed.): "The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels"
  3. ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945 . A complete overview. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 305
  4. ↑ At UFA it was done like this ... Cinema - The great dream business . In: Der Spiegel , edition 3/1951 of January 17, 1951, p. 21
  5. ↑ Andrea Schuster: Decay or Change of Culture? , Wiesbaden 1999
  6. ↑ People close to the abyss. Article in Der Spiegel 40/1948
  7. ↑ Ideas: "Eight Authors, One Thought" . Report in Der Spiegel 26/1953
  8. ↑ The man of my life on newfilmkritik.de
  9. ↑ Short criticism in Der Spiegel 35/1986
  10. ^ Obituary Maria Milde on pnn.de.

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personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Otto Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahn, Ottoheinz; Jahn, Otto-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, film dramaturge, film manager and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
DATE OF DEATH September 1953
Place of death near Hamburg , Germany