Frederick Kohner

Frederick Kohner, in the United States: Frederick Kohner ( born September 25, 1905 in Teplitz- Schönau, Austria - Hungary, † July 7, 1986 in Brentwood, United States ) was a österreichischstämmiger author, novelist and screenwriter in the German and American film.

Life

Kohner had studied in Vienna and Paris and his PhD Thesis title film is complete seal. He then worked as a journalist and film journalist in Prague and Berlin. 1929/30, Kohner was briefly film correspondent for German newspapers in Hollywood. Staying there, he used a miniature appearance in Lewis Milestone 's legendary anti-war film on the Western Front.

Back in Berlin, Kohner began in 1930 to work actively with the German film, starting with the comedy side jumps - a production, with the participation of the young Billie Wilder collaborated in its function as a screenwriter - where he served as assistant director István Székely. 1932/33, Frederick supplied three films of his brother, producer Paul Kohner universal, with screenplays, often in collaboration with other authors. Then the Jew Kohner fell into isolation. Robert Siodmak, who meanwhile had fled to Paris director of his last German film Burning Secret, enabled him in 1934 a writer contributing to its French production La crise est finie. Only in 1935 on a script to Victoria, the adaptation of a novel by Knut Hamsun - In the Third Reich, Frederick Kohner involved - anonymous. In July 1936, Frederick Kohner succeeded with his wife Fritzi and the four year old daughter Ruth to emigrate to the United States. In Hollywood, he Americanized in Frederick Kohner and participated, mostly unnamed, screenplays and film treatments designed. For the story of participation in the 1938 Deanna Durbin twisted comedy Mad About Music Kohner received in the following year an Oscar nomination. Then reached him since 1939 also sporadically offers to write regular film screenplays, including novel to a dancer with Loretta Young and Conrad Veidt. However, the vast majority of his American activity was confined to continue on the designs of film stories.

1954 Frederick Kohner was temporarily reversed back to Germany and received by the West German film screenplay two orders. At the 1955 rotated singing comedy Love, Dance and 1000 hits with Peter Alexander and Caterina Valente Kohner wrote the original.

Kohners greatest success was his youth novel Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas. He tells of the surf adventures, loves, cares and worries of a carefree teenager on the beach in Malibu late 50s. Inspired to him had his born in Los Angeles in January 1941 second daughter Katherine Clare, named Kathy. 1959 and 1961 caused by this novel two movies - the first, very successful in Germany was discovered under the title of April, the men awarded - and 1965/66, a television series. In the script for the second movie was in 1961 Kohner directly involved, the series four years later, he stood only as a consultant.

With Kiki of Montparnasse put Frederick Kohner in 1967 another novel before. He was released in 1978 under the title Kiki of Montparnasse by Molden Verlag for the German market.

Filmography

Only screenplays and screenplay investments