Harald Braun
Harald Braun ( born April 26, 1901 in Berlin, † September 24, 1960 in Xanten ) was a German film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Life
The son of a pastor studied German literature, philosophy and art history in Freiburg and Berlin and earned his PhD. He became a member of the Freiburg and Berlin Wingolf. Initially, he worked as a merchant, and later for the Evangelical People's Educational Institute. Brown took over the leadership of the Evangelical Press Association and founded in 1924 the literary magazine Eckart. Later he joined as an editor for the Scherl -Verlag. In 1932 he became head of department and radio editor of the Berliner Rundfunk.
By Carl Froelich 1937 he came to the UFA and worked as a writer and assistant. In 1942 he led in Between Heaven and Earth debut as a director. He staged quite different kinds of movies, including the Revue film Hab ' love me with Marika Rokk and the Schumann biography reverie. After the end of World War II Harald Braun was first director of the Heidelberg Chamber games. After that he came as a radio drama to Radio Munich, where he directed, among others, Bertolt Brecht The Trial of Lucullus (1949 ).
In 1947 he founded with screenwriter Jacob Geis his own film company, the New German film company ( ndF ). At the same time he continued to work as a director and screenwriter. Braun's most famous films of the postwar period vigil that has the conversion of an unbelieving become a doctor to content, and Heart of the World (1952 ), a film about the life of the pacifist Bertha von Suttner, for which he was in 1953 awarded the German Film Award. Also Brauns more films that resorted repeatedly to literature templates, often revolve around ethical and moral issues.
Brown was some time second President of the Association of German film directors, and from 1955 a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. He was the father of Michael Brown, who was known as a director of successful television productions later.
His grave is in the cemetery of Graefelfing.
Awards
Filmography
Bibliography
- Liliencron and naturalism. Berlin ( Univ., Diss ) 1923
- Time seal, in: Carl Schweitzer ( Ed.): The religious Germany the present 2: The Christian circle. Berlin 1929, 400-421
- Poet faith. Voices of religious experience, ed. by Harald Braun. Berlin- Steglitz ( Eckart -Verlag) 1931, 2nd edition 1932
- Vigil. Narrative. Ebenshausen b. Munich ( Langewiesche -Brandt ) 1950
- Heart of the World. Berlin ( Evangel. Publishing House ) 1954