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Kurt Heuser

Kurt Heuser

German screenwriter

Kurt Heuser (23 November 1903 – 20 June 1975) was a German screenwriter.[1]

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Early in his career he wrote Schlußakkord (Final Accord or better Final Chord), a German film melodrama of the Nazi period.[2] After 1945, Heuser continued to work as a screenwriter. He was in contact with many German-speaking filmmakers and writers and took part in the meetings of Group 47. His last work, “Malabella,” was unable to live up to his first successes as an author, although it did, for example, B. was highly praised by Christa Rotzoll in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.[3]

Selected filmography

References

  1. [1]
    Rentschler p.180
  2. [2]
    Sabine Hake, Popular Cinema of the Third Reich, Austin: University of Texas, 2001, ISBN 9780292734579, p. 246, note 4: the title "refers to a musical term" whereas that of Sierck's 1939 French-language Accord Final can also mean "concluding agreement".
  3. [3]
    "Verlagsgruppe Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH". Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online. Retrieved 2023-11-13.

Bibliography

  • Rentschler, Eric. The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife. Harvard University Press, 1996.


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