Richard Schneider-Edenkoben

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Richard Schneider-Edenkoben , born Richard Schneider , (born June 25, 1899 in Edenkoben , † September 23, 1986 in Nindorf ) was a German writer , screenwriter , director and painter .

Life

The South Palatinate teacher's son Richard Schneider first tried his hand at writing and in 1930 published the historicizing novel Tarakanova - Story of an Adventurer , published by Reclam Verlag in Leipzig . In the same year he chose the name of his place of birth Edenkoben as a name affix indicating his origin and added it to his birth name so as not to be confused with other Richard Schneider's. Almost at the same time he was able to establish contact with the film industry for the first time and participated in the script for Max Reichmann's singer-romance The big attraction with star tenor Richard Tauber in the lead role.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , Schneider-Edenkoben and 87 other writers signed a pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler in October 1933 . In the same year he published the blood-and-soil drama You shall not desire . His script draft Kain , a modern adaptation of the Old Testament material, which he wrote almost at the same time for the UFA , was also realized in 1933 in the Mecklenburg province under the title You shall not desire , at the same time his first production. The debut work, shot far from all studio-like artificiality, was praised by its home paper , the Edenkobener Zeitung , because of the “strong visual quality ” and the “lively rhythm” of the language. Schneider-Edenkobens directorial debut brought him no luck: the Reichsbauernführer Walther Darré rejected the work resolutely (he called for the title to be changed to “Blood and Clod” and “New Earth”); likewise later the allied military authorities , who immediately put the pathetic epic on the list of bans after the war .

From then on Schneider-Edenkoben limited itself to pure entertainment. In the winter of 1934/35 he shot, also for UFA, a lively provincial farce about small town morality, class arrogance and neighborhood gossip, The Foolish Virgin , and in the spring of 1936 the game of mistaken identity Incognito . After the world war and espionage melodrama Signal in der Nacht and the Volksstück with old Berlin flair As once in May (both 1937), Richard Schneider-Edenkoben was only able to realize one work, the episodic, psychological study of New Year's Eve at Alexanderplatz , which took place in the milieu of the Ambulance service plays. Although this work, which was made at the end of 1938 (like all of his films), was not a definite box-office success, the criticism was all in all very friendly this time.

Schneider-Edenkoben settled in Wewelsfleth in Schleswig-Holstein and in 1938 bought the former ferry house in Störort , an artists' settlement on the banks of the Stör , in the neighborhood of the artist Karl Leipold . Because of his close relatives to Hans Frank - Schneider-Edenkoben was a cousin of Brigitte Frank , the wife of the Governor General of Poland who was executed in 1946 - the film director was appointed as a film expert for the Government General after the occupation of Poland in 1939 . In this role, Schneider-Edenkoben achieved little more than the creation of a four-page memorandum. His last movie was 1943 contribution to participate in the idea of Carl Boese's comedy Easy blood are. After submitting a brief memorandum, he disappeared without a trace in 1943. A friend who had apparently learned that Schneider had fallen out of favor had advised him to do so.

Schneider-Edenkoben was considered deserted and hid for two years. After the war he returned to Wewelsfleth, where he led an isolated life with his third wife and earned his living as a painter and gallery owner. Above all he worked as a " portraitist ". He painted numerous portraits of villagers and other guests, whom he called in as models , and around 300 oil paintings. Otherwise Schneider-Edenkoben had hardly any contacts, he never received uninvited guests and did not make any acquaintances locally. After his house had to be demolished in the 1970s due to the construction of a disturbance barrier , he moved to a neighboring town, where he died ten years later at the age of 87. He never got over the loss of his house.

Schneider's son from his first marriage was the director and cameraman Wolf Schneider . His grandson Jörg Schneider also works as a director. His second wife, with whom he lived from 1938 to 1943, was the Norwegian actress Ellinor Hamsun (1916–1987) (German film role in 1939 in Die unheimlichen Wünsche ), a daughter of the Norwegian writer and Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun .

Filmography (as a director and screenwriter)

  • 1931: The big attraction (only script collaboration)
  • 1933: You should not desire
  • 1934: Visit to the detention center (short film, only direction)
  • 1934/35: The Foolish Virgin (only direction)
  • 1936: incognito
  • 1937: As once in May (only direction)
  • 1937: Signal in the night
  • 1938: New Year's Eve at Alexanderplatz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 536.
  2. ↑ a b c Ilke Rosenburg: Who sat the model? In: shz.de , April 30, 2010, accessed April 5, 2019.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 536, with reference to Nürnb. Doc. 3815-PS.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider-Edenkoben, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Richard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, screenwriter, director and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Edenkoben
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1986
Place of death Nindorf (Rendsburg-Eckernförde)