Hans Janowitz

Hans Janowitz ( born December 2, 1890 in Podiebrad, Austria - Hungary, now Czech Republic, † May 25, 1954 in New York, NY ) was an Austrian- German - American author.

Life

Janowitz was an officer in the First World War, from which he returned as a pacifist. He arrived shortly after the war the like-minded Carl Mayer in Berlin, and received from him the impetus to act as an author. Together they wrote the screenplay for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which was 1919/20, a film directed by Robert Wiene. The film is one of the outstanding works of German film expressionism.

Janowitz was still working after that for two films Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. By 1922 he had finished his work for the film. Janowitz operated thereafter as a writer and translator. From his pen flowed the novels Jazz (1927, new edition in Weidle Verlag, Bonn, 1999), and so as the other books of poetry and the Requiem, asphalt ballads and fantasies in New York. In 1939 he emigrated to the United States. There he became manager Ján Villon Perfume Co.

Hans Janowitz was the brother of the writer Franz Janowitz ( 1892-1917 ).

Filmography

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