Walter Forster (screenwriter)

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Walter Forster (born January 22, 1900 in Vienna , † December 14, 1968 in Tegernsee ; born Walter Kudernatsch ) was an Austrian screenwriter .

Life

Walter Forster grew up in Brno , attended the artillery cadet school in Traiskirchen and from 1919 to 1921 the commercial college. He then studied law at the University of Vienna . In 1922 he took up a banking profession, but at the same time worked as an intern for the film.

In 1929 he went to Berlin and took the pseudonym Walter Forster . Forster was now involved in various German films as a co-screenwriter in the following years, often only as a source of ideas, whose manuscripts were then revised by colleagues. As a rule, he created templates for typical entertainment films about love and suffering, which were loosened up with a little comedy. In addition, he also wrote scripts for Nazi propaganda films such as Togger and Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub .

In the 1950s Forster was able to continue his work in German-Austrian film without any problems. After 1960 he worked several times for television and wrote some episodes of the crime series Das Kriminalmuseum and From zero a.m. to midnight .

Filmography

  • 1930: the tempting goal
  • 1933: The bet
  • 1933: A door opens
  • 1934: Rivals of the Air - A glider pilot film
  • 1934: Enjoy life
  • 1934: Miss Liselott
  • 1935: marriage strike
  • 1935: King Waltz
  • 1936: Boccaccio
  • 1937: Togger
  • 1937: diamonds
  • 1937: The irresistible
  • 1938: You own my heart
  • 1938: Mrs. Sylvelin
  • 1939: puppet
  • 1939: error of heart
  • 1940: Between Hamburg and Haiti
  • 1941: Six days home leave
  • 1941: The main thing is happy!
  • 1943: Carnival of Love
  • 1943: mask in blue
  • 1949: Shot at midnight
  • 1950: No angel is so pure

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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 63.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture 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. 160.
personal data
SURNAME Forster, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kudernatsch, Walter (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1968
Place of death Tegernsee