Franz Schulz
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Franz Schulz in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
) was a playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
and 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:...
who worked from 1920 through 1956.
Biography
Schulz was born into a wealthy family, and although the Jewish faith, religion played no role in the family. His father was a lawyer and a college friend of the writer Friedrich AdlerFriedrich Adler
Friedrich Adler may refer to:*Friedrich Adler , German architect and archaeologist*Friedrich Adler , Czech-Austrian politician*Friedrich Adler , German artist and designer, died in Auschwitz...
. Lucia, one of his sisters, was the first wife of the painter László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.-Early life:...
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As a high school student Schultz studied the works of Max Brod
Max Brod
Max Brod was a German-speaking Czech Jewish, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka...
, Egon Erwin Kisch
Egon Erwin Kisch
Egon Erwin Kisch was a Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German. Known as the The raging reporter from Prague, Kisch was noted for his development of literary reportage and his opposition to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.- Biography :Kisch was born into a wealthy, German-speaking...
, Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
, Paul Leppin
Paul Leppin
Paul Leppin was a 20th century Bohemian writer of German language, who was born and lived in Prague.Although he wrote in German, he was in close contact with Czech literature. He translated Czech books and wrote articles on Czech literature...
, and Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet.- Biography :Born in Prague , Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods. His mother, Albine Kussi, was the daughter of a mill owner...
. Schulz graduated in 1915 from the Charles University in Prague
Charles University in Prague
Charles University in Prague is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic. Founded in 1348, it was the first university in Central Europe and is also considered the earliest German university...
and entered the army shorty thereafter. After release from service, he went to Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
where he worked from 1918 to 1920 as a journalist, until writing for film. His early screenplays were for crime and drama films, before he turned his attention to comedy. His first "talkie" was the 1930 film Die Drei von der Tankstelle, followed in 1931 by feature film screenplays for Die Privatsekretärin
Die Privatsekretärin (1931 film)
Die Privatsekretärin is a 1931 German musical film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig and Felix Bressart. An English-language version Sunshine Susie was made, also starring Renate Müller. A French language version Dactylo and an Italian-language La segretaria...
and Bomben auf Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo Madnes
Monte Carlo Madnes is a 1931 German musical comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Hans Albers, Anna Sten and Heinz Rühmann. It is based on the 1930 novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen. A separate English language version Monte Carlo Madness and a French version Le...
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In 1933 Schulz emigrated to Prague. Forced out of the Germany film industry by the rise of The Third Reich, Schultz emigrated to England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. In 1939, Schulz co-founded the 'Austrian Exile Theatre Laterndl' that attempted to preserve Viennese
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
culture through performances of cabaret and stage plays until August 1945. The Laterndl became one of the "outstanding cultural achievements of German-speaking exile in London". In 1938-39 he worked with Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age...
and Charles Brackett
Charles Brackett
Charles William Brackett was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer.-Biography:Born on November 26, 1892 in Saratoga Springs, New York, Charles William Brackett was the son of New York State Senator, lawyer, and banker Edgar Truman Brackett...
to create the Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen was an American director, art director, and costume designer.-Film career:He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments...
comedy film Midnight
Midnight (1939 film)
Midnight is a 1939 romantic comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz. It starred Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and John Barrymore.-Plot:Eve Peabody is an out-of-work American showgirl...
. From 1940 on, and later as a naturalized US citizen, Shultz was officially Francis George Spencer. Upon the end of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
emigrated to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
where he continued work in film (and later television) as a screenwriter. Schulz later settled in Ascona, Switzerland and worked primarily as a playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
. His last feature film was the 1956 Fuhrmann Henschel
Josef von Baky
Josef von Báky was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was also known as Josef v. Baky and József Baky. He was born in the town of Zombor in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, since 1920 Sombor in Yugoslavia., . He worked as an assistant to Geza von Bolvary.He worked as director or...
, for which he adapted the 1898 Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:...
stage play of the same name for director Josef von Báky
Josef von Baky
Josef von Báky was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was also known as Josef v. Baky and József Baky. He was born in the town of Zombor in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, since 1920 Sombor in Yugoslavia., . He worked as an assistant to Geza von Bolvary.He worked as director or...
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On May 4, 1971, six weeks after his 74th birthday, Shchulz died at Muralto
Muralto
Muralto is a municipality in the district of Locarno, in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.-Roman settlement:In the second half of the 19th Century, the ruins of a Roman settlement were discovered. However, all the items discovered in these early excavations are either lost or they are kept in...
, Tessin
Ticino
Canton Ticino or Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland. Named after the Ticino river, it is the only canton in which Italian is the sole official language...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. He is interred at the Pambio-Naranco Jewish cemetery
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
in Lugano
Lugano
Lugano is a city of inhabitants in the city proper and a total of over 145,000 people in the agglomeration/city region, in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy...
, Ticino, Switzerland.
Silent films
- Judith Trachtenberg (1920)
- Die Verwandlung (1920)
- Zirkus des Lebens (1921)
- Die rote Redoute (1921)
- Im Kampf mit dem unsichtbaren Feind (1922)
- Die schwarze Schachdame (1922)
- Wettlauf ums Glück (1923)
- Dreiklang der Nacht (1924)
- Der Sprung ins Leben (1924) (novel)
- Der rosa Diamant (1926)
- Der goldene Abgrund (1927)
- Die Hose (1927)
- Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (1928)
- Die Räuberbande (1928)
- Dyckerpotts Erben (1928)
- Die Rothausgasse (1928)
- Prinzessin Olala (1928)
- Abwege (1928)
- Liebeskarneval (1928)
- Der Präsident (1928)
- Sechs Mädchen suchen Nachtquartier (1928)
- ArtistenArtistenArtisten is a German circus movie from 1934/1935 starring Susi Lanner, Hans Junkermann, Hilde Hildebrand and Harry Piel, who also acted as director. The screenplay was written by Max W...
(1928) (writer) - Fürst oder Clown (1928)
- Vater und Sohn (1929) (writer)
- Der Sträfling aus Stambul (1929) (writer)
- Adieu Mascotte (1929) (writer)
- Der lustige Witwer (1929) (writer)
- Champagner (1929)
Sound films
- Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930)
- Le chemin du paradis (1930)
- Va Banque (1930)
- Zwei Welten (1930)
- Der Sohn der weißen Berge (1930)
- Two Worlds (1930)
- Zwei Herzen im Dreiviertel-Takt (1930)
- Delikatessen (1930)
- Der Erzieher meiner Tochter (1930)
- Die PrivatsekretärinDie Privatsekretärin (1931 film)Die Privatsekretärin is a 1931 German musical film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig and Felix Bressart. An English-language version Sunshine Susie was made, also starring Renate Müller. A French language version Dactylo and an Italian-language La segretaria...
(1931) - La segretaria privataLa segretaria privataLa segretaria privata is a 1931 Italian musical film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Elsa Merlini, Nino Besozzi and Sergio Tofano...
(1931) - The Office Girl (1931)
- Sunshine SusieSunshine SusieSunshine Susie is a 1931 British musical film directed by Victor Saville and starring Renate Müller, Jack Hulbert and Owen Nares. It was based on a novel by István Szomaházy. An alternate German-language version Die Privatsekretärin was made, also starring Renate Müller.It is also known under the...
(1931) - DactyloDactyloDactylo is a 1931 French drama film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Marie Glory, Jean Murat and Armand Bernard. It was a French-language version of the German film Die Privatsekretärin which was itself based on an operetta by István Békeffy....
(1931) - Gloria (1931) (manuscript)
- Meine Cousine aus Warschau (1931)
- Ich heirate meinen Mann (1931)
- Ma cousine de Varsovie (1931)
- Wiener Liebschaften (1931)
- La fille et le garçon (1931)
- Amours viennoises (1931)
- Bomben auf Monte CarloMonte Carlo MadnesMonte Carlo Madnes is a 1931 German musical comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Hans Albers, Anna Sten and Heinz Rühmann. It is based on the 1930 novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen. A separate English language version Monte Carlo Madness and a French version Le...
(1931) - Le capitaine CraddockLe capitaine CraddockLe capitaine Craddock is a 1931 German French-language musical comedy film directed by Max de Vaucorbeil and Hanns Schwarz and starring Jean Murat, Käthe von Nagy and Charles Redgie. It is a French-language version of the 1931 German film Monte Carlo Madnes. It is sometimes known as Bombe Sur Monte...
(1931) - Monte Carlo MadnessMonte Carlo MadnessMonte Carlo Madness is a 1932 German English-language musical comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Sari Maritza, Hans Albers and Charles Redgie. In Monte Carlo a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a Queen...
(1932) - Das Mädel vom Montparnasse (1932)
- Love on WheelsLove on WheelsLove on Wheels is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jack Hulbert, Leonora Corbett, Gordon Harker and Edmund Gwenn.-Cast:* Jack Hulbert - Fred Hopkins* Leonora Corbett - Jane Russell* Gordon Harker - Briggs...
(1932) (story) - Mädchen zum Heiraten (1932)
- Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag (1932)
- L'amoureuse aventure (1932)
- Madame hat Ausgang (1932)
- The Lucky NumberThe Lucky NumberThe Lucky Number is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Clifford Mollison, Gordon Harker, Joan Wyndham and Frank Pettingell. A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket...
(1932) (story) - Marry Me (1932) (story)
- Abenteuer am Lido (1933)
- Sleeping CarSleeping carThe sleeping car or sleeper is a railway/railroad passenger car that can accommodate all its passengers in beds of one kind or another, primarily for the purpose of making nighttime travel more restful. The first such cars saw sporadic use on American railroads in the 1830s and could be configured...
(1933) - Was Frauen träumen (1933)
- A Daughter of Her People (1933)
- One Exciting Adventure (1934)
- Blossom Time (1934)
- Dactylo se marie (1934)
- Two Hearts in Waltz TimeTwo Hearts in Waltz TimeTwo Hearts in Waltz Time is a 1930 German film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Walter Janssen, Oskar Karlweis, Willi Forst, Gretl Theimer and S.Z. Sakall...
(1934) - Paris in SpringParis in SpringParis in Spring is a 1935 black and white musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone for Paramount Pictures.It is based on a play by Dwight Taylor, with a screen play by Samuel Hoffenstein and Franz Schulz.-Plot:...
(1935) - The Lottery Lover (1935)
- The Night Is Young (1935)
- Clothes and the Woman (1937)
- MidnightMidnight (1939 film)Midnight is a 1939 romantic comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder based on a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz. It starred Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and John Barrymore.-Plot:Eve Peabody is an out-of-work American showgirl...
(1939) - Lucky PartnersLucky PartnersLucky Partners is a 1940 comedy romance drama film directed by Lewis Milestone for RKO Radio Pictures. The film is based on the 1936 Sacha Guitry film Bonne Chance, and stars Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers marking their first film together, and marks Rogers' eleventh and final film that was...
(1940) - Adventure in DiamondsAdventure in DiamondsAdventure in Diamonds is a 1940 American crime film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring George Brent, Isa Miranda, John Loder and Nigel Bruce...
(1940) - Pacific Blackout (1941) (as Frank Spencer)
- Down in San Diego (1941) (as Franz Spencer)
- Born to SingBorn to Sing-Album:-Singles:"—" denotes releases that did not chart.-Personnel:Information taken from Allmusic.*arranging – Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy*art direction – Bob Defrin...
(1942) (as Franz G. Springer) - Masquerade in MexicoMasquerade in MexicoMasquerade in Mexico is a 1945 comedy film directed by Mitchell Leisen. It stars Dorothy Lamour and Arturo de Córdova.-Cast:*Dorothy Lamour as Angel O'Reilly*Arturo de Córdova as Manolo Sergovia*Patric Knowles as Thomas Grant*Ann Dvorak as Helen Grant...
(1945) (as Franz Spencer) - The Fighting Guardsman (1946) (as Franz Spencer)
- Invasion USAInvasion U.S.A. (1952 film)Invasion U.S.A. is a 1952 motion picture set during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant to be taken as the Soviet Union....
(1952) (as Franz Spencer) - Fuhrmann HenschelJosef von BakyJosef von Báky was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was also known as Josef v. Baky and József Baky. He was born in the town of Zombor in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, since 1920 Sombor in Yugoslavia., . He worked as an assistant to Geza von Bolvary.He worked as director or...
(1956) (as Franz-Spencer-Schulz)
Television
- The Hunter (1 episode, 1952) (TV)
- Episode "Black and White Sheep" (1952) (as Franz Spencer)
- Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (1 episode, 1954) (TV)
- Episode "The Kennedy Case" (1954)
Partial theatre
- Judith Trachtenberg (1920)
- Esther Labarre (1927)
- The Lost Waltz (1933)
- A Window Facing East (1949)
- The happy anthill (1952)
- Die Drehtür (1959)
- Die Villa der Madame Vidac (1959)
External links
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