Harald G. Petersson
Harald G. Petersson, Harald Giertz Petersson - or Harald Giertz Petersson -, ( born October 16, 1904 in Weimar, † July 8, 1977 in Berlin) was a German - Swedish screenwriter.
Life
The son of a Swede and a German began his career as a writer and was in the thirties, press chief of the production company Tobis. When his novella Heart trump was filmed in 1934, he began to lay on writing screenplays, first in collaboration with other authors. Soon proved his extraordinary flair for creating tension. He was a specialist in dramatic stories of espionage and military markets.
In 1940 he married his second wife, the actress Sybille Schmitz, who was a famous Ufa star at that time. The marriage was divorced in 1945. Then Petersson lived together again some time with her, until he finally separated from the suffering from alcohol problems Actress. 1955 Sybille Schmitz took his own life.
Because of these personal problems Petersson returned only after a ten -year hiatus in 1958 back to the cinema. Through his screenplays he had a considerable share in the tremendous success of the produced by Horst Wendlandt Edgar Wallace and Karl May movies. In favor of a striking dramatization he usually more strongly on the respective novel templates, which has been criticized by experts of this works.