Viktor Skutezky

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Viktor Skutezky , also Skutetzky or Victor Skutezky (born February 15, 1893 in Brno , Austria-Hungary , † 1981 ) was an Austrian and Moravian-born film producer , production manager , writer and screenwriter for German and British film.

Live and act

Little is known about Skutezky's early years. In 1922 he came to Berlin to film, where he initially assisted director EA Dupont with his masterpiece Varieté and Dupont's colleague Lupu Pick . In the summer of 1923 he announced his engagement to Amelie Hacker in Vienna. From 1926, starting with the films The Orphan of Lowood and tips , Skutezky served as manager operates.

In mid-1928 Viktor Skutezky switched to film production management. In 1933 he fled from the National Socialists to Austria, where he and Mela Deutsch-Brady (* 1897, † unknown) wrote the comedy Kleines Glück auf der Wieden , which, with songs by Alexander Steinbrecher and Hans Lang , started on September 15, 1937 great success at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna (director: Wilhelm Chmelnitzky , 1900–1989; actors: Gisela Wer Bezirk , Hans Olden , Olly Holzmann ) and later also ran in Zurich and Brno. In addition, he assisted the film director Hermann Kosterlitz, who had also fled to Vienna . In Hungary Skutezky was a production assistant for the emigrant film The Little Cavalier (also known under the titles Mircha and Bubi ), in Prague he wrote the screenplay for a film project called Reisefieber in 1938 , which was never realized. In March 1939 he managed to escape to England . There he participated in the same year on the manuscript for the planned film material Good Bye London .

It was then taken over by Pinewood Studios and the Associated British Picture Corporation . The latter company employed Skutezky on the film adaptation of his own play, It Happened One Sunday , directed by his compatriot Carl Lamac . In 1945 Skutezky was involved in the screenplay for childhood love , the following year in Hafen der Temptation , a material he had acquired from Georges Simenon and in which Simone Simon played her first English-language role. Skutezky remained active as a film producer until he was 65 and then retired. 1961 produced and directed by Rolf Kutschera the Austrian Television (ORF) Little luck in the Wieden as a TV movie titled The Ballad of Francis and Marie , among others adapted by Florian Kalbeck , Carl Merz and Armin L. Robinson .

Works

  • Alfred Gehri , - (German version): Sixth floor. A comedy in nine pictures . (Uniform title: Sixième étage ). Not for sale manuscript. Bloch, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1960, OBV .

Filmography

Films as a film producer or production manager, unless otherwise stated

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 609.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the audience. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic Organ , No. 227/1923 (LVII. Volume), August 19, 1923, p. 6, column 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg.
  2. ↑ Viktor Skuteztky: Little luck on the Wieden. An Austrian comedy in ten pictures . Sn, Vienna 1936, OBV .
  3. ↑ Small art mirror. Viennese author makes the first Simone Simon film. In:  Weltpresse , No. 194/1946 (Volume II), August 24, 1946, p. 6, column 1 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dwp.
personal data
SURNAME Skutezky, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skutetzky, Viktor; Skutezky, Victor (in England)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Moravian film producer and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1981