Arthur Pohl
Arthur Pohl, Artur Pohl ( born March 22, 1900 in Görlitz, † June 15, 1970 in Berlin; native Arthur Georg Otto Pohl ) was a German stage designer, director and screenwriter.
Life
He was the son of the typesetter and newspaper editor Luis Gustav Otto Pohl and his wife Lina Maria, nee Schmidt. After attending public school in Görlitz, he made a bank clerk and studied with a scholarship from the bank from 1918 to 1919 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.
Pohl was a painter and worked from 1923 to 1927 at the Hessian State Theatre in Darmstadt as a stage designer. In 1927 he worked at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1928 at the Prussian State Theatre Kassel. On 1 June 1928 he was engaged as stage designer and director of the United Municipal Theater Dusseldorf.
Arthur Pohl brought in Dusseldorf for several classic performance, but his efforts, the criminals of Ferdinand Bruckner, The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and the leather heads of Georg Kaiser failed to bring out in each case the resistance of the German National in the city parliament. The Termination for moral offenses was dismissed in court, but left Pohl on 29 January 1929, the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus.
He found a new workplace as a stage designer at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin. Initially unnamed, he worked from 1931 for the film by sent treatments and synopses. From 1936, his name appeared as a co-writer, including in the monumental two-parter The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb.
In June 1941, he was drafted into military service. After his release from American prisoner of war in February 1946, he lived in West Berlin, but signed on May 1, 1947 a management contract for DEFA. In 1949 he made his debut The Bridge, the only East German film, which broached the problems of home eviction. 1951 Pohl traveled with a film delegation to the Soviet Union. For his directing in the large-scale production The Invincible (1953 ) on the SPD at the time of August Bebel, he received the National Prize of the collective DDR II class.
In 1957, it came over the anti-western film The casino affair objections to the head office film, the accused Pohl, depict life in capitalism too positive. Pohl, who had serious accident during filming, then switched sides, was because of his past but no contracts with the West German film industry.
Only in 1960 gave him the Sender Freies Berlin with the full guest house his first directorial job, which was heavily criticized by the Berliner Morgenpost. Pohl's collaboration on West German television was subsequently mostly limited to the adoption of some screenplays for the evening program.
Arthur Pohl was married since August 4, 1943 Arntrud Hildebrand, born Schulze. Son Axel was born in 1951. After the divorce in 1960 he married in 1963 the librarian Renate blennorrhcea. From this marriage his daughter born in 1964, Angela went out.