Ida Jenbach
Life
Ida Jenbach attended the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna where she trained as an actress. 1888, she made her debut in Mannheim. Other engagements have taken her to Kronstadt, Munich, Salzburg and Vienna. She was also active as a journalist, among other things as a foreign correspondent.
As a film critic, it came with the cinematography in contact. The Viennese art film, it undertook in the 1910s as a dramaturge. Since 1919, she wrote screenplays. They adapted, among other things Ludwig Anzengruber The pastor of the church field, wrote dramas, melodramas and comedies.
Your most significant work is likely to be The City without Jews adaptation of Hugo Bettauer novel. The anti- Semitism Austrian film that culminated the novel, caused a scandal when he departed the incitement of anti-Semitic circles on itself.
Jenbach then wrote mainly for German film production companies. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933, she returned to Vienna, where she worked mainly as a journalist from 1934. The end of November 1941, she was deported to the ghetto in Minsk, where they probably died.