Ernst Neubach
Encyclopedia
Ernst Neubach was an Austrian
screenwriter
, producer
and director
.
, after which he worked as a master of ceremonies in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. He wrote lyrics for songs and over 2,000 hits, including I've lost my heart in Heidelberg (1925). Successful operetta
libretto
s include Gentleman Jack (Music: Carita by Horst). With the dawn of the talkie era, he began to write screenplay
s for musical comedies.
After the Nazis seized power
in 1933, Neubach lived mostly in Vienna. On 9 March 1937, he became a member of the Patriotic Front.
After the Anschluss
, Neubach emigrated to France. There, he worked as a screenwriter from 1938 to 1939. As a member of the French Foreign Legion
, he served in North Africa from 1940 to 1941. On 29 September 1942, he fled to Switzerland to escape the threat of deportation. He stayed there until three months after the war had ended in a hotel in Zollikon
.
In August 1945, Neubach moved back to France. He worked as a scriptwriter in 1948 and in 1952, he returned to Germany, where he worked as a writer. He founded Ernest Neubach Productions in Munich, which produced his 1955 movies.
Neubach married Hertha Helene Langer in July 1945, but the marriage ended in divorce. He later married Margaret Jenni, with whom he had a daughter.
named Ernest Neubach Productions.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
and director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
.
Biography
Neubach was a veteran of World War IWorld War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, after which he worked as a master of ceremonies in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. He wrote lyrics for songs and over 2,000 hits, including I've lost my heart in Heidelberg (1925). Successful operetta
Operetta
Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...
libretto
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
s include Gentleman Jack (Music: Carita by Horst). With the dawn of the talkie era, he began to write screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
s for musical comedies.
After the Nazis seized power
Machtergreifung
Machtergreifung is a German word meaning "seizure of power". It is normally used specifically to refer to the Nazi takeover of power in the democratic Weimar Republic on 30 January 1933, the day Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany, turning it into the Nazi German dictatorship.-Term:The...
in 1933, Neubach lived mostly in Vienna. On 9 March 1937, he became a member of the Patriotic Front.
After the Anschluss
Anschluss
The Anschluss , also known as the ', was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938....
, Neubach emigrated to France. There, he worked as a screenwriter from 1938 to 1939. As a member of the French Foreign Legion
French Foreign Legion
The French Foreign Legion is a unique military service wing of the French Army established in 1831. The foreign legion was exclusively created for foreign nationals willing to serve in the French Armed Forces...
, he served in North Africa from 1940 to 1941. On 29 September 1942, he fled to Switzerland to escape the threat of deportation. He stayed there until three months after the war had ended in a hotel in Zollikon
Zollikon
Zollikon is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.-Geography:Zollikon has an area of . Of this area, 21.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 37.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 40.8% is settled and the remainder is non-productive...
.
In August 1945, Neubach moved back to France. He worked as a scriptwriter in 1948 and in 1952, he returned to Germany, where he worked as a writer. He founded Ernest Neubach Productions in Munich, which produced his 1955 movies.
Neubach married Hertha Helene Langer in July 1945, but the marriage ended in divorce. He later married Margaret Jenni, with whom he had a daughter.
Screenplays
- 1930 : Königin einer Nacht, Fritz Wendhausen (co-written with Harry Kahn)
- 1930 : Wien, du Stadt der Lieder, Richard Oswald
- 1930: Ein aus Heidelberg Burschenlied, Karl Hartl (co-written with Hans Wilhelm)
- 1930 : Die Zärtlichen Verwandten, Richard Oswald (co-written with Fritz Friedmann-Frederich)
- 1931 : Kasernenzauber, Carl Boese (dialogue)
- 1931 : Der Liebesarzt, Erich Schönfelder
- 1931 : L'Homme qui cherche son assassin (Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht), Robert SiodmakRobert SiodmakRobert Siodmak was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.-Early life:...
- 1931 : In Wien hab 'ich einmal ein Mädel geliebt, Erich Schönfelder (co-written with Richard Rillo)
- 1932 : Johannn Strauss, kuk Hofkapellmeister, Conrad Wiene (co-written with Ralph Stanley)
- 1932 : Trenck (Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe), Neubach and Ernst Heinz Paul (co-authored with Heinz Paul)
- 1933 : Keinen Tag ohne Dich, Hans Behrendt
- 1933 : Ein Lied geht um die Welt, Richard Oswald
- 1934 : Wenn du jung bist, gehört dir die Welt, Richard Oswald
- 1934 : My Song Goes Round The World, Richard Oswald (History)
- 1935 : The Student's Romance, Otto KanturekOtto KanturekOtto Kanturek was an Austrian cameraman, cinematographer and film director.-Life:He trained at the Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna and, after a voluntary internship for Gaumont Newsreels, he became an assistant film cameraman with them in 1912 and the following year got a post with...
(wrote the opera I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg) - 1935 : Vorstadtvariete, Werner Hochbaum
- 1936 : Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben, Richard Oswald (History)
- 1946 : On ne meurt pas comme ça (We do not die like that), Jean Boyer (co-authored with André Tabet)
- 1946 : Der blinde Engel (La foire aux chimères), Pierre ChenalPierre ChenalPierre Chenal was a French director and screenwriter who flourished in the 1930s, and was best known for film noir thrillers such as the 1937 film L’Alibi, where he worked with Erich von Stroheim and Louis Jouvet. In 1939 he made Le Dernier Tournant, the first of many film treatments of James M...
(co-written with Jacques Companeez and Louis Ducreux) - 1947 : The Sharks of Gibraltar, Emil-Edwin ReinertEmil-Edwin ReinertEmil-Edwin Reinert, or Emile-Edwin Reinert, was a French, film director, screen writer, audio engineer and producer....
(co-authored with Norbert Carbonnaux and Jacques Companeez) - 1947 : A Night at Tabarin, Karel Lamač (Roman co-authored with Victor HerbertVictor HerbertVictor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
) - 1949: The red signal, Ernst Neubach (co-authored with André Cerf and Victor Herbert)
- 1949: We request an assassin, Ernst Neubach (History co-authored with André Tabet)
- 1951 : The Memoirs of Cow Yolande, (co-written with Emil-Edwin Reinert)
- 1952 : J'ai perdu mon coeur à Heidelberg (I lost my heart in Heidelberg) (Ich hab 'mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren), Ernst Neubach (co-written with Gustav Kampendonk)
- 1952 : Man lebt nur einmal, Ernst Neubach (director and screenplay)
- 1953 : Müller Briefträger, John Reinhardt and Heinz RühmannHeinz RühmannHeinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...
(History) - 1953 : Whirlwind, Alfred Rode
- 1954 : Meine Schwester und ich, Paul Martin (co-written with Jacques Companeez and Joseph Than)
- 1954 : Die Große Starparade, Paul Martin (co-written with Franz Tänzler)
- 1955 : Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe, Paul VerhoevenPaul Verhoeven (Germany)Paul Verhoeven was a German actor, writer, and film and theatre director.He had 13 siblings and the family lived in modest circumstances.He directed and acted in over 50 films, and wrote over 20 film scripts, the first of which was Das kleine Hofkonzert in 1935, an operetta with music by Edmund...
(novel and screenplay) - 1955 : Die Wirtin an der Lahn, JA Hübler-Kahla
- 1956 : La Fée du Bodensee (Die Fischerin vom Bodensee), (Harald ReinlHarald ReinlHarald Reinl was an Austrian film director. He is especially known for the movies he made based on Edgar Wallace and Karl May books .He started his career as an extra in the mountain-films of Arnold Fanck...
, producer), The Fairy of Bodensee (History), source of the song "In Heaven There is No Beer" - 1957 : Der Kaiser und das Wäschermädel, Ernst Neubach (book)
- 1957 : Tante Wanda aus Uganda (Aunt Wanda of Uganda), Geza von Cziffra
- 1957 : Die Prinzessin von St. Wolfgang, Harald Reinl (History)
- 1958 : Ein Lied geht um die Welt, Geza von Cziffra
- 1959 : Lass mich am Sonntag nicht allein, Arthur Maria Rabenalt (co-written with Adolf Schütz)
- 1960 : Die Rote Hand, Kurt Meisel
- 1966 : Sperrbezirk, Will Tremper (Novel)
- 1981 : Alles im Eimer, Ralf Gregan (History)
Films produced by Neubach
Ernst Neubach had a production companyProduction company
A production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video.- Tasks and functions :...
named Ernest Neubach Productions.
- 1935 Vorstadtvariete, Werner Hochbaum
- 1935 Ein Walzer um den Stephansturm, JA Hübler-Kahla
- 1936 Schatten der Vergangenheit, Werner Hochbaum (executive producer)
- 1946 On ne meurt pas comme ça (We do not die like that), Jean Boyer (producer)
- 1956 La Fée du Bodensee ( Die Fischerin vom Bodensee ) (The Fairy of Bodensee), Harald Reinl (producer)
- 1957 Maria fille de la forêt ( Wetterleuchten um Maria ) (Maria daughter of the forest), Luis Trenker (producer)
- 1957 Tante Wanda aus Uganda, Geza, Cziffra (producer)
- 1958 Ein Lied geht um die Welt, Geza von Bolváry (producer)
- 1959 Lass mich am Sonntag nicht allein, Arthur Maria Rabenalt (producer)
- 1960 Die Rote Hand, (Kurt Meisel (producer) 1960
- 1964 Sept contre la mort ( Sette contro la morte ) Seven against death, Edgar George Ulmer ( producer)
- 1964 La Môme aux dollars ( Einer frißt den anderen ) La Vie en Rose to dollars (Einer frisst den anderen), Richard E. CunhaRichard E. CunhaRichard Earl Cunha was a Hawaiian born cinematographer and film director...
, Gustav Gavrin , Ray Nazarro and Albert Zugsmith (producer) - 1966 Sperrbezirk, Will Tremper (producer)
- 1932 Trenck (Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe), (co-directed by Heinz Paul)
- 1949 Le Signal rouge (The Red Signal)
- 1949 On demande un assassin (We request a murderer)
- 1951 Les Mémoires de la vache Yolande (The Memoirs of Cow Yolande)
- 1952 J'ai perdu mon coeur à Heidelberg ( Ich hab' mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren ) I lost my heart in Heidelberg
- 1952 Man lebt nur einmal (You Only Live Once)
- 1957 Der Kaiser und das Wäschermädel