Reichsfilmdramaturg
With the Film Act of February 16, 1934, the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , headed by Joseph Goebbels , was assigned a Reich film dramaturge. The task of the Reichsfilmdramaturge consisted in the preliminary examination of planned film productions.
While the film testing a censorship undertook the already wacky movies, the reichsfilmdramaturg should prevent unpopular films were made at all. The shooting of a film could therefore only begin after the film draft, manuscript and screenplay had been approved by the Reichsfilmdramaturgen. The Reichsfilmdramaturg also prevented filming of the work of politically unpopular writers.
This preliminary examination was entirely in line with the economic interests of the film industry, because it not only represented the first step for the producers to obtain a cheap loan from Filmkreditbank GmbH , but also generally protected them from later censorship damage.
The Reichsfilmdramaturgen were one after the other:
- Willi Krause (known as a writer under the name Peter Hagen ), since early February 1934
- Hans-Jürgen Nierentz (1936–1937)
- Fritz Hippler
- Carl-Dieter von Reichmeister (until 1943)
- Kurt Frowein
- Ewald von Demandowsky
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- ↑ 02/01/1933: Goebbels appoints his Reichsfilmdramaturge. (PDF; 11 kB) on: SWR 2 ZEITWORT. February 1, 2010.
- ↑ AT UFA IT'S THAT IT'S THAT… In: Der Spiegel. 2/1951.
- ↑ The Reichsfilmdramaturg deposed. In: Pariser Tageblatt . Volume 4, 1936, No. 841 April 1, 1936, p. 1, column d.
- ^ Roel Vande Winkel, David Welch (eds.): Cinema and the Swastika, The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema. (PDF; 584 kB) Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke et al. 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-23857-2 .
- ↑ Hans-Christoph Blumenberg: This is where German people speak: "Life goes on" - Ufa's last persistence film 1944/45 (I). In: Der Spiegel. 48/1992.