Walter Turszinsky

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Leopold Walter Turszinsky , also Turczynski , (born January 10, 1874 in Danzig ; † May 21, 1915 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ) was a German writer , journalist and screenwriter for silent films.

Live and act

Turszinsky, son of the businessman Isidor Turszinsky, had worked as a writer since the last years of the 19th century. At first he wrote reports, later he also wrote books that included essays, poems, biographies and short stories. Above all, Turszinsky's Berlin-Buch Berlin - over and under, gives an interesting impression of the lifestyle of the capital city dwellers in the last years of peace during the imperial era. His specialty as a playwright was the comedy . With Freiherr von Schlicht he created the comedy in three acts "His Highness", which was premiered in November 1908 at the Friedrich Wilhelmstädtischer Theater . Two years later, Turszinsky performed the four-act comedy Plato's Schüler with Hans L'Arronge in Berlin.

In 1912 Turszinsky made the leap to film. In the next two and a half years, up to his untimely death in May 1915, he wrote the manuscripts for an abundance of theatrical productions, above all his scripts, written together with Jacques Burg , for Carl Wilhelm's two comedies, which premiered in 1914, The Company Marries and The Pride of the Company with the young Ernst Lubitsch made for great box office and critical successes. Turszinsky u. a. for productions by Otto Rippert , Robert Wiene , Max Mack and Rudolf Biebrach .

He had been married to Olga, née Klein, since 1903.

Filmography

Book publications (selection)

Walter Turszinsky: Berliner Theater , from the series Großstadt-Documents , Volume 29
  • People in the shade . Berlin 1900
  • Berlin theater . Berlin 1906
  • Adolph L'Arronge on his 70th birthday . Berlin 1908
  • Disasters. Novellas . Berlin 1909
  • Albert Bassermann . Berlin 1909
  • Berlin - over it and through below . Berlin 1911
  • The heavy bag goes around. Gruff poems . Berlin 1913

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Wilmersdorf, No. 755/1915
  2. ↑ Marriage register StA Berlin VII a, No. 220/1903
personal data
SURNAME Turszinsky, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turszinsky, Leopold Walter; Turczynski, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1915
Place of death Berlin-Wilmersdorf