Franz Schnyder

Franz Schnyder ( born March 5, 1910 in Burgdorf, † February 8, 1993 in Münsingen ) was a Swiss film director.

Life

The son of an engineer Max Schnyder and twin brother of the Swiss diplomat Felix Schnyder went through after high school acting school in Germany, among others, Ilka Gruening. He received his first engagement in 1932 in Mainz, after 1933 he worked as an actor and director at theaters in Wroclaw, Cathedral and St. Gallen. Since 1936, Schnyder worked at the Deutsches Theater Berlin under Heinz Hilpert and 1938 at the Munich Chamber games.

At the beginning of the Second World War in 1939 Schnyder returned back to Switzerland, made ​​military service and received in the same year a management contract at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. In addition, he also staged works at the Stadttheater Bern and at the Theater Basel, his play he became manager in 1944. Schnyder preferred political pieces such as Georg Kaiser Franz Werfel's The Soldier Tanaka and JACOBOWSKY and the Colonel.

In 1941 he made ​​his film debut with the patriotic production Gilberte de Courgenay. Since his next feature film Wilder holiday a failure was, Schnyder was only years later directed orders. In the 50s he made primarily by the adaptation of works of Jeremias Gotthelf a name. Uli the Servant (1954 ) and its sequel Uli the Tenant (1955 ), both with Hannes Schmid Hauser and Liselotte Pulver in the lead roles, were great successes. Schnyder's film style was often criticized by critics as too conservative and conservative. The six Kummerbuben (1968 ) after the eponymous youth book by Elisabeth Müller was his last movie.

He then worked for years on his film project about the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. In 1978 he was able to complete the script, but no donors found for production. He was increasingly out of touch with reality and spent his last years in psychiatric center Münsingen. 1984 turned the Swiss director Christoph Kühn still a film portrait of Franz Schnyder. Swiss TV has his 100th birthday, his work digitally restored.

Filmography

Movie Documentary

  • Christoph Kühn: FRS - The cinema of the nation, 94 min, Zurich 1985
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