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Gerhard Menzel
1894 - 1966 |
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. The screenwriter and author Gerhard Menzel first finished the apprenticeship as a bank clerk before he dedicated to his artistic vein and he began to study music. During World War I he served as a soldier, afterwards he continued his professional career as a bank clerk before he bought a cinema in 1925. With this he continued a family tradition because his father also possessed a cinema. Gerhard Menzel also wrote several novels from the middle of the 20s but also plays for the theater. To his novels belong "Tobbogan" (27), "Wieviel Liebe braucht der Mensch?" (32), "Flüchtlinge" (33), "Was werden wir dann tun?" (33), "Kehr wieder, Morgenröte" (52) and "Karlchen" (54). To his plays count "Fern-Ost" (28), "Bork" (31), "Liebhabertheater" (33), "Appassionata" (36), "Scharnhorst" (37), "Der Unsterbliche" (40), "Zwanzig Jahre" (40), "Tauernaffäre" (56) and "Alexander Puschkin: Der Postmeister (59). In 1933 he also wrote his first screenplay for the movie "Morgenrot" (33) and in the next years followed many other popular screenplays, some of them based on his own novels. To his well-known works as a screenwriter belong "Flüchtlinge" (33), "Der junge Baron Neuhaus" (34), "Barcarole" (35), "Das Mädchen Johanna" (35), "Unter heissem Himmel" (36), "La Habanera" (37), "Frau im Strom" (39), "Der Postmeister" (40), "Heimkehr" (41), "Der grosse König" (42) and "Wien 1910" (43). He continued his film career as a screenwriter after World War II and he wrote the script for the movies "Verspieltes Leben" (49), the scandalous movie "Die Sünderin" (51), "Hanussen" (55), "Dunja" (55) and "Herrscher ohne Krone" (57). Besides his activity as a screenwriter he also appeared as an actor in front of the camera for "Morgenrot" (33) and he realised the movie "Ein Blick zurück/Am Vorabend" (44) as a director.
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