Curth Flatow
Curth Flatow ( born January 9, 1920 in Berlin, † June 4, 2011 ) was a German stage and screenwriter.
Life
The son of humorist and artist lecture Siegmund Flatow and chanteuse Alwine Kiekebusch completed post-high school training as a businessman in the clothing industry. Later he worked as a salesman and fashion illustrator. In 1945, after a successful appearance at a young matinee, he founded the Berlin cabaret group The Mavericks. Engagements followed as a cabaret actor ( At Henry Bender, cabaret comedian ).
His first success as a playwright he wrote with the Revue melody of the Road ( 1947), the Flatow together with Bruno Balz. He established himself in the following decades as a successful representative of the boulevard theater - in Germany there are 20 cities in 24 theaters that specialize in light comedies, such as the Theater am Kurfürstendamm and the comedy in Berlin and the comedy at the Old Town Market in Braunschweig. Flatow wrote more than 20 pieces in this genre. His greatest achievements include the authored with Horst pillau popular play The window to the hall (1960 ) with Rudolf Platte and Inge Meysel, which was performed over 120 times, and the father of a daughter and the man who does not dare (1973 ), each with Georg Thomalla occupied. His boulevard comedy The money is in the bank (1968 ) brought it to the Hebbel Theater in Berlin to more than 500 performances. "I wanted to change society never, but only to entertain ," Flatow once confessed.
In addition to his theater work, he has been active since 1950 in the film industry and for Radio and Television. From his novel I'm marrying a family of the same television series originated with Thekla Carola Wied and Peter Weck on ZDF, which gained popularity in the 1980s. Flatow processed in autobiographical elements, as he had himself married with several children a mother. Flatow learned after the Second World War when West Berlin radio station RIAS Hans Rosenthal, with whom he became friends closely. Flatow wrote for various transmission lines Rosenthal, among other things, Dalli Dalli.
Curth Flatow lived with his second wife, Brigitte (birth name: Werner) in Berlin. He was since 1967 President of the playwright Union and was for many years the recording and the Works Committee of the GEMA. In 1980 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1992 and considered by the Berlin Senate, entitled "Professor eh" ( honorary ). In 2000, he laid on the Kurfürstendamm 's began before his autobiography. His final resting place he found in the forest cemetery Dahlem.
Works (selection)
- The man who does not dare. 1973 ( Theatre)
- Transit. ( Theatre)
- Second fiddle. 1991 ( Theatre)
- The window to the hallway ( Your Wedding Day ). ( with Horst pillau, theater, film )
- My daughter and I ( a daughter ). 1966 ( theater, film )
- No marriage made to measure. ( Theatre)
- Romeo with graying temples. ( Theatre)
- Am Kurfürstendamm 's began. Memories from a memory with gaps. Langen Müller, Munich 2000.