Peter Francke

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Peter Francke (born February 4, 1897 in Berlin ; † beginning of January 1978 in Munich ; born Kurt Hohoff ) was a German writer and screenwriter .

After his service in the First World War, he made up his Abitur in 1920 and in 1921 became editor of the short-lived anti-Semitic magazine Der Spiegel . He then worked as an office secretary and later office manager for summer stages, as well as for the Berlin Schillertheater .

From 1924 he worked as a dramaturge , theater director and deputy director at the Bamberg City Theater . In 1926 Hohoff came to the Zentral-Theater in Magdeburg , and in the 1927/28 season he was the office manager of the summer directorate at the Wilhelma Theater in Danzig .

In 1928 he quit his theater work, took on the stage name Peter Francke and began to write novels. When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Francke, who was regarded as conforming to the regime, was given the opportunity to write film scripts. His works, often in collaboration with colleagues like Emil Burri , mostly offered non-political cinema entertainment, as was common in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 . After the war he continued his work in German and Austrian films.

Works

  • Because I love you, I have to lie; Avalun Verlag Hellerau near Dresden
  • 1932: What do you know about me -!; Berlin, Oestergard
  • 1934: The woman in a thousand masks. A spy novel; Berlin Ullstein publishing house
  • 1934/35: Longing for the one. Novel; Leipzig, record publisher
  • 1935: Across the rum line. Adventure novel; Berlin, Kulturelle Verlagsges.
  • 1943: A blank slate; Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Die Drehbühne, as a manuscript
  • 1947: God's angels are everywhere ; Erwin Cudek Verlag, Vienna
  • 1972: In Praise of Travel; Sanssouci Verlag , Zurich
  • 1974: In Praise Of The Bicycle Or Need Teaches To Kick; Sanssouci-Verlag, Zurich

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