Károly Nóti
Karl Noti ( born Károly NotI; born 1 February 1892 in Tăşnad, Austria - Hungary, now Romania, † May 28, 1954 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer, stage and screenwriter.
Life and work
Born in what is now Romania Károly NotI began his career in 1918 at the Cluj newspaper " Keleti Újság ". After the city as a result of the peace treaty, Romania was slammed, NotI returned in 1919 to the Hungarian heartland. He wrote there first texts and pieces for small theaters. Resident since 1923 in Budapest, he wrote comedies, among other things for the Terézkörúti theater. In 1928 he moved for two years at the Budapest Comedy Theatre.
1930, accompanied by the beginning of the sound film era, settled Károly NotI in Berlin and was hired as a screenwriter. Until 1933, written by the Hungarian, who here, for the sake of easier pronunciation, in Karl Noti eindeutschte itself, especially script templates for cheerful fabrics. The majority of comedies and comedies, he wrote, was created in collaboration with the German colleagues Bobby E. Lüthge. As a result of the seizure of power by the National Socialists Noti left Germany again. In Vienna and Budapest, he continued his work as a screenwriter for films emigrants. Undisclosed 1935 he was also on the screenplay to the Hollywood Musical I dance ' involved me in your heart into it, an audience favorite with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Then, in 1936, he wrote the screenplay for the French film Mister flow for Robert Siodmak. In 1938, he co-authored with the German colleagues Robert Thoeren the manuscript to Le dompteur, another French film. In the same year he collaborated on the script for the Hollywood production The Girl Downstairs with the exiled Hungarian Franziska Gaal in the lead role.
At this time the Nazi racial laws intervened in Hungary, Károly and NotI was only sporadically the opportunity to find shelter in the film. He worked temporarily as a writer and cabaret was 1940/41, also re-admitted as a screenwriter before he was arrested in December 1941 as part of a so-called clean-up campaign and interned. In 1943 he continued his work at the Hungarian film, but had towards the end of World War II, along with his wife, submerge as racially Endangered. Still in 1945 he took his film work again and wrote the screenplay for a Hungarian comedy film with Theo Lingen (dance noise ). From 1947 to 1949 Károly NotI again went to the cabaret, where he worked as a dramaturge.
In the Federal Republic of Germany a Noti template for comedy in 1950 was used when men cheat, 1953 adapted one of his plays for the Riihmann comedy No fear of large animals. A year after his death, in 1955, finally came the implementation of a Noti - comedy, Three days means arrest, in the West German cinemas.