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Ruth Goetz
1880 - 1965 |
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. The screenwriter Ruth Goetz began her professional life as a translator before she began to publish her own novels. To her books belong "Die verleugneten Jahre", "Das ewige Fräulein" and "Der Meister". Beside it she was working as an editor for the Ullstein publishing and she was an employee of different newpapers. She already wrote her first screenplay in 1911 for the French production "Les amis" (11) but her real film career began in Germany in 1916. In the next years she wrote the scipts for movies like "Rita macht alles" (16), "Die Verworfenen" (17), "Die Retterin" (17), "Mouchy" (18), "Die Bettelgräfin" (18), "Die verwunschene Prinzessin" (19) and together with Joe May whose "Veritas vincit" (19). The 20s marked the height of her cinematical career and Ruth Goetz took part in numerous silent movies as a screenwriter. To her well-known works of those years belong "Die Herrin der Welt" (20) directed by Joe May, "Schloss Einöd" (20), "Die Augen der Welt" (20), "Der Todesreigen" (22), "Der Seeteufel" (23), "Die vier Ehen des Matthias Merenus" (24), "Die Kleine aus der Konfektion" (25), "Reveille, das grosse Wecken" (25), "Die vom Niederrhein" (25), "Die Gesunkenen" (26), "Das Rätsel der Borobudur" (26), "Dirnentragödie" (27) and "Schenk mir das Leben" (28). Afterwards she retired from the film business and dedicated again to her activity as an author and journalist. With the rise of the National Socialism the Jew Ruth Goetz had to leave Germany and she went to England where she lived till her death.
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