Willibald Eser

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Willibald Georg Eser (born September 1, 1933 ; † August 2005 ) was a German screenwriter .

life and career

Eser had studied theater and newspaper studies at the University of Munich without a degree and then began to work as a journalist. Early film contacts brought him together with Thea von Harbou , Jean Cocteau and Curt Goetz . In 1957 Käutner brought him in to write the screenplay for his film Monpti . Eser worked again with Käutner in 1960 and 1961: together they worked on the play Das Glas Wasser , written by Eugène Scribe , which was then filmed as a musical - with Liselotte Pulver in the leading role. Eser not only wrote the script for the film Traum von Lieschen Müller , but also some of the songs it featured. Willibald Eser was also involved in the scripts for Ingeborg , Everything goes better with raspberry spirit (both 1960) and The Certain Something of Women (1966).

In the 1960s Willibald Eser was hired to Hollywood for several TV specials with Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant . The gradual decline of Eser's career became apparent at the beginning of the 1970s: He was involved as a writer in soft sex films such as The Sharp Heinrich (1971) and Praise be to what makes hard (1972). At this time, Eser also appeared in front of the camera once: in 1972, he took on a minor supporting role in the film Temptation in the Summer Wind , directed by Rolf Thiele .

After the submission to Monika and the sixteen year olds (1975) he withdrew from the film business and wrote (usually as a co-author) biographies about various actors such as Johannes Heesters , Theo Lingen , Camilla Horn , Helmut Fischer and Harald Juhnke . After finishing his film career, he lived in Markt Rettenbach (Jägerhof).

Eser's son is the former child actor Archibald Eser (* 1961), who suddenly became famous in the late 1960s with the family film The World Is Alright At Seven .

Filmography

Screenwriter

actor

Books

  • 1978: Johannes Heesters: It depends on the second (recorded after conversations with Willibald Eser)
  • 1979: Lil Dagover: I was the lady. Munich
  • 1981: Hans Moser: "Have the honor." His life, his films. Munich
  • 1981: Helmut Käutner: Fade out. His life, his films. Munich
  • 1985: Camilla Horn: In love with love (recorded by Willibald Eser). Munich
  • 1986: Theo Lingen (together with Willibald Eser): Comedian by mistake. Munich / Vienna
  • 1993: Johannes Heesters: Thank god I am no longer young (recorded by Willibald Eser). Munich
  • 1994: Harald Juhnke: What else I wanted to say to you ... (recorded by Willibald Eser). Munich
  • 1997: Helmut Fischer: "A little something is always possible" (by Willibald Georg Eser)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980, Munich / Zurich 1979, p. 106; according to the world obituary, he must have been born in 1930/31
  2. ↑ Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980, p. 106 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Eser, Willibald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eser, Willibald Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1930 or 1931 or September 1, 1933
DATE OF DEATH August 2005