Rolf E. Vanloo

Rolf E. Vanloo (born March 24, 1899 as Martin Karl Edmund Schmidt in Minden , Westphalia , † after 1941) was a German screenwriter , film producer , writer and dramaturge .

Life

The native Westphalian was drafted after graduating from school (humanistic education). After his discharge from military service, he tried his hand at writing, and from 1920 also for the cinema. One of his first works, the play Florence or Die Drei bei der Frau , was made into a film by Fritz Lang in 1920 under the title Die Vier um die Frau (also: Fighting Hearts ).

Initially active for the production company Decla-Bioscop AG, Vanloo switched to Phoebus as a dramaturge in 1922 and to the Joe Mays production company in 1924 . Then Rolf Vanloo founded the script company 'European Scenario Company GmbH.', Of which he was managing director.

In addition, he continued to work as a screenwriter. He provided his most important script collaboration for May's reality-oriented police drama Asphalt , which Vanloo had also authored. Immediately afterwards he supplied a foreign (British) production for the first time with his manuscript for Arthur Robison's IRA drama The Night After the Treason .

During the sound film, Vanloo only sporadically wrote screenplays, with the manuscript for Karl Hartl's classic science fiction film Gold with Hans Albers in the lead role, he made his most important contribution to domestic sound films. In 1936/37 Vanloo also wrote for two French productions. At the same time, at the instigation of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , Vanloo traveled to London to win the German Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich , who was filming there (" Tatjana "), for the lead role of singer Mado Doucet in the drama Tango Notturno, written and produced by Vanloo . However, Dietrich strictly refused to allow Adolf Hitler to return to Germany , and the film went into production the following year with the silent film idol Pola Negri , another of Hitler's favorites.

Tango Notturno was to remain Vanloo's last script participation until autumn 1939. 1938 his novel was The Night of the decision by Philipp Lothar Mayring and Harald G. Petersson made into a screenplay and Nunzio Malasomma implemented the following year Vanloo only provided the idea for Hans welding carts Comedy Carnival . Jochen Huth wrote the script for it .

Since the outbreak of World War II, Vanloo can no longer be traced in the Reich. His last manuscripts were implemented in Roman ( Gone with Fate ) and Budapest studios ( mask in blue ). After the filming of the latter film was over (October to December 1941), Rolf Vanloo disappeared completely from the public eye. When and where he died is not known.

Filmography (as screenwriter, selection)

1921: The Secret of Bombay
1921: The herring gull
1921: The passenger in the straitjacket
1922: The man of steel
1922: The lightship
1922: The homecoming of Odysseus
1922: power of temptation
1923: The burning ball
1923: The victory of the Maharajah
1923: quarantine
1924: Thamar, the child of the mountains
1924: Malva
1924: I love you
1925: The farmer from Texas
1927: The rolling ball

1928: The continuous woman
1928: I kiss your hand, Madame
1928: asphalt (also template)
1929: Diane
1929: The Night After The Betrayal (The Informer)
1931: Hello! Hello! This is Berlin speaking! (only idea)
1934: gold
1935: Variety show
1936: L'île des veuves
1936: Gleisdreieck (also based on a novel)
1937: L'appel de la vie
1937: Tango Notturno (also production)
1939: Carnival (only idea with Hans Schweikart)
1941: Gone with Fate
1941: Mask in Blue (Premiere: 1943)

literature

Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 138 f.

Web links

Rolf E. Vanloo in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Remarks

↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 15.
↑ Vanloo's disappearance in the middle of the war remains a mystery and cannot currently be explained. Whether he, who was long considered a confidante of Goebbels', suddenly fell out of favor (and was possibly arrested), or whether he used the opportunity of his stay abroad in 1941 to flee Europe or to a neutral country cannot be answered at the moment. When asked, the film scholar Kay Less explains: The fact is that 1. Vanloo's Reichsfilmkammer file (Federal Archives Berlin) no longer has an entry after 1941. That 2. the city of Minden does not have a death record under his maiden name in its birth register and 3. that the former regime benefactor was no longer included on the list of film authors approved by the Propaganda Ministry in 1944 (see Bogusław Drewniak: Der deutsche Film 1938–1945. A Complete overview. Droste, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-7700-0731-X , p. 142 f.). All of this speaks for either a cold position or arrest or an escape from Vanloo. In the event of death, according to the RFK, this would have been added to its file until April 1945.

personal data
SURNAME	Vanloo, Rolf E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmidt, Martin Karl Edmund (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Minden
DATE OF DEATH	after 1941

[1] Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 15.

[2] Vanloo's disappearance in the middle of the war remains a mystery and cannot currently be explained. Whether he, who was long considered a confidante of Goebbels', suddenly fell out of favor (and was possibly arrested), or whether he used the opportunity of his stay abroad in 1941 to flee Europe or to a neutral country cannot be answered at the moment. When asked, the film scholar Kay Less explains: The fact is that 1. Vanloo's Reichsfilmkammer file (Federal Archives Berlin) no longer has an entry after 1941. That 2. the city of Minden does not have a death record under his maiden name in its birth register and 3. that the former regime benefactor was no longer included on the list of film authors approved by the Propaganda Ministry in 1944 (see Bogusław Drewniak: Der deutsche Film 1938–1945. A Complete overview. Droste, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-7700-0731-X , p. 142 f.). All of this speaks for either a cold position or arrest or an escape from Vanloo. In the event of death, according to the RFK, this would have been added to its file until April 1945.