Egon Eis
Egon ice ( born October 6, 1910 in Vienna, † September 6, 1994 in Munich, native Egon Eisler ) was an Austrian writer of detective novels, film screenplays and stage plays, which is often the pseudonyms Trygve Larsen ( especially in the Edgar Wallace movies) Edgar Albert Tanner ice or used.
The son of a building contractor lived since the twenties in Berlin and wrote, often in collaboration with his brother Otto, several crime novels ( The last woman of London, 1931). Already at this time the ice was also involved in film scripts.
Due to the rise of the Nazis in 1933, he went back to Vienna, where he wrote mostly plays such as The ridiculous Sir Anthony and prison without bars. His most famous work for water Canitoga was performed in 56 cities in Europe and Latin America. After the Anschluss, he emigrated to France in 1940, he went to Morocco in 1941 and 1942 to Cuba to Mexico. There he delivered screenplays for several films.
Since 1953 ice again lived in Germany, where he remained initially little known. His stage play The summit was first performed in 1957 by Heinz Hilpert at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen. When the Rialto Film 1959 set out to film the novels of Edgar Wallace, ice was commissioned on a proposal by Franz Marischka with the adaptation because he had participated in 1931 in the first film adaptation of The Squeaker. His first Wallace screenplay for the film The Frog with the mask held up a hand close to the original, but offset the other hand, the action in the then present. Ice withdrew from participation in the Edgar Wallace films, as his screenplay for The Indian cloth was rejected and you went over to more and more, turn to " themes by Edgar Wallace ".