Peter Goldbaum

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Peter Goldbaum (born February 19, 1916 in Danzig , Prussia ; † September 4, 1981 ) was a German producer, director and screenwriter.

Life

Goldbaum was born in Gdansk. He came from a Jewish family whose name goes back to David Goldbaum, an inn owner from Grabow . Peter Goldmann was the third of five children from the marriage of lawyer Wenzel Goldbaum and his wife Marie Alexander-Katz. The family emigrated to Paris in 1933 , and his parents and their two youngest children went on to Ecuador in 1936 .

Peter Goldbaum first went to England and then to the United States , where he worked as a screenwriter, including for Walt Disney Productions . During the Second World War he joined the US armed forces in November 1941 .

In 1955 Goldbaum returned to Germany, where he worked as a theater agent in Berlin . He worked as a director and writer for many years and had founded his own production company in Munich . In 1958, his intention to produce a "true-to-original film adaptation of the Jud-Süß novel" by Lion Feuchtwanger with OW Fischer caused a sensation . He had already acquired the rights to film. The project remained unrealized. The film Helden received the German Film Prize 1959 in the category “best German feature film” and the Golden Bowl challenge . Goldbaum wrote some of his German arrangements for the stage and for television.

A daughter emerged from his marriage to the Swiss actress Elvira Schalcher (* 1926).

Filmography

Stage plays

Overview:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Danny, Noemí and Dor Goldbaum: The history of the Goldbaum family , based on a summary of the family history by Heinz Goldbaum (1912-2005), Israel, 2005.
  2. ^ Peter Goldbaum: Army Enlistment Record from World War II , World War 2 US Army Enlistment Archive.
  3. ↑ A chamber play . In: Der Spiegel 30/1958, July 23, 1958.
  4. ^ Oppenheimer affair . In: Der Spiegel 38/1965, September 15, 1965.
  5. ^ Peter Goldbaum , sales office and publishing house for German stage writers and stage composers .
personal data
SURNAME Goldbaum, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German producer, director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig , Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1981