Roland Schacht

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Roland EA Schacht (born February 13, 1888 in Reichenberg , Austria-Hungary , † September 22, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German author and screenwriter .

Life

Youth, training and the First World War

Schacht was the son of the actor couple Eduard and Mathilde Schacht , née Quendt († 1941). The graphic artist and architect Walter Schacht was his younger brother. After attending a secondary school, which Roland Schacht graduated from at Easter 1906, he studied German, modern languages ​​and art history in Göttingen, Paris, Munich, Berlin and Greifswald from 1906 to 1910. In 1910 he received his doctorate in Munich with the thesis The Development of Tragedy in Theory and Practice from Gottsched to Lessing with an examination date of January 30, 1910 for Dr. phil . Soon afterwards, from November 12, 1910, he passed the first state examination for the higher teaching post.

From 1911 to 1915 Schacht worked as a senior teacher at the Böhm Girls' School in Berlin. In addition, from 1911 to 1914 he was co-editor of the annual reports for recent German literary history . During the First World War, Schacht was a member of the Prussian Army from March 23, 1915 to December 22, 1915. He then came to the Building Department of the Government General for Belgium in Brussels. From October 1916 he worked for the civil administration in Flanders as a librarian and interpreter.

Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism

On January 1, 1919, Schacht joined the Foreign Office, where he was initially employed in Department IV (News). In the spring of 1920 he moved to Department P (Press = United Press Department of the Reich Government ), where he was employed in Section J (Internal and foreign policy with reference to the internal press) until 1933. In addition, he worked from 1920, under changing pseudonyms, as a cultural journalist for newspapers and magazines such as the Börsencourier , Die Grenzbote , the Prussian Yearbooks and Der Abend, and from 1922 as a film critic for the Ullstein-Verlag ( Die Weltbühne , Der Kunstwart and BZ am Mittag ) and from 1928 to 1930 as a dramaturge for Universum Film AG.

In 1934 Schacht took over the management of Section XI (press lecture and press report) at the Foreign Office. He had meanwhile ended his employment as a film critic in the early 1930s. Instead, he wrote several plays and scripts in the years that followed. From 1941 to 1942 Schacht worked for the Tobis Tonbild Syndicate.

Schacht was married twice: his first marriage to Elise von Hager, a daughter of the landowner Otto von Hager. On April 24, 1936, he married Gretchen Zacharias for the second time.

post war period

After the end of the Second World War, Schacht headed the cultural office in Berlin-Friedenau from May to October 1945, most recently in Schöneberg. He then worked as a freelance writer: he published short stories and a novel. He also published Grillparzer writings. He also translated Italian, French and Spanish literature into German. From June 8, 1951 to October 31, 1953, Schacht worked as a consultant at the Federal Press Office.

From 1945 Schacht, who was married to Elise von Hager, was chairman of the Association of German Authors and, from 1951, of the Association of German Stage Writers . On November 2, 1953, Schacht received an honorary mandate to prepare a presentation of the history of the Foreign Office from 1915 to December 31, 1955. From February 1, 1956, he was a reviewer of German texts for the General Secretary of the Troop Treaty Conference.

Works

Published writings

  • Madame Steinheil. Drama in 11 pictures , 1933.
  • Of course she is right. Comedy in 3 acts , 1934. (filmed in 1935 under the title Die blonde Carmen )
  • Christine of Sweden. Drama in five acts , 1935.
  • Mama cleans up! Comedy in 3 acts , 1936.
  • Actress. 5 acts , 1937.
  • The beautiful Mrs. Gloria. Comedy in three acts , 1937.
  • Consultation hour. Comedy in three acts , 1939.
  • The very big love. Comedy in 3 acts , 1940.
  • Fortunately, there is character. Comedy in 3 acts , 1940.
  • One night incognito. Comedy with music in 3 acts 1940.
  • Uhlmann's children. Volksstück in 3 acts , 1941.
  • Darling of the ladies. Novellas , 1948.
  • Uprising of the ascetics. A cheerful time novel , 1955.

Scripts

  • 1921: From the black book of a police commissioner, Part 1 - Lodge No. 11
  • 1934: Playing with fire (only subject )
  • 1938: spring air
  • 1939: Suspicion of Ursula
  • 1942: A gust of wind

literature

  • Foreign Office [Ed.]: Biographical Handbook of the Foreign Service. 1870-1945 , Vol. 4, pp. 35f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary for Mathilde Schacht in the Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1943. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Schacht, Roland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schacht, Roland EA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film critic and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1961
Place of death Berlin