Richard Schweizer

Richard Schweizer (born December 23, 1900 in Zurich ; † March 30, 1965 ibid) was a Swiss screenwriter and two-time Oscar winner .

Life

He studied literature in Zurich and from 1920 worked as a film critic for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . In 1921/22 he worked as a set designer at the Zurich City Theater and the Zurich Theater.

Schweizer then went to Berlin , where he worked as a journalist and photo reporter. After returning to Switzerland, he wrote texts for advertising, industrial and documentary films from the early 1930s, and from 1933 also for feature films. His collaboration with director Leopold Lindtberg was particularly successful , and he also collaborated with Franz Schnyder .

Schweizer contributed to the scripts of almost all of the key films of intellectual national defense and Praesens humanism during the Second World War . His adaptations of the literature by the Swiss writers Gottfried Keller and Jeremias Gotthelf attracted particular attention, as did his adaptations of the Heidi novels by Johanna Spyri .

He received an Oscar each for Marie-Louise and The Drawn , and a Golden Globe for The Drawn . From 1952 to 1965 he headed the Bühne Neue Schauspiel AG Schweizer, which was a member of the PEN Club and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , and left his life voluntarily.

Scripts

1931: One working day 1933: How d'Warret works 1937: Kleine Scheidegg (also direction and production) 1938: Fusilier Wipf 1938: Kokumin no chikai 1939: Sergeant Studer 1940: The abused love letters 1940: Miss Huser 1941: Gilberte de Courgenay 1941: Landammann Stauffacher 1942: The haunted house 1942: The shot from the pulpit 1943: Wild vacation 1944: Marie-Louise 1945: the last chance

1948: The drawn 1949: Swiss Tour 1950: The four in the jeep 1952: Heidi 1954: Uli the servant 1955: Uli the tenant 1955: Heidi and Peter 1956: The mountains between us 1958: The dairy in vehicle joy 1960: Anne Bäbi Jowäger - Part I: How Jakobli comes to a woman 1962: Anne Bäbi Jowäger - Part II: Jakobli and Meyeli 1963: The Moral Criminal 1964: Money and Spirit 1965: Heidi

libretto

• Casanova in Switzerland . Opera. Music: Paul Burkhard . Premiere 1943 Zurich

Awards

• 1946: Oscar for best original screenplay in Marie-Louise (1944)
• 1949: Golden Globe for best screenplay in The Drawn (1948)
• 1949: Oscar for best original story in The Drawn (1948)

literature

• Ute Kröger: Richard Schweizer . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1654 f.
• Richard Schweizer: December 23, 1900–30. March 1965: Speeches at the funeral service for Richard Schweizer in the Zurich Schauspielhaus on April 4, 1965. Zurich 1965.
• Richard Schweizer (1900–1965): Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Zürcher Schauspielhaus. Neue Zürcher Zeitung No. 1420, April 5, 1965

Web links

• Biography with photo
• Filmography by Richard Schweizer on filmportal.de
• Richard Schweizer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Felix Aeppli: Swiss, Richard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .