Max Ophüls
Max Ophüls ( ɔp'hʏls, French 0fyls, actually Maximilian Oppenheimer, born May 6, 1902 in St. John, since 1909 a district of Saarbrücken, † March 26, 1957 in Hamburg ) was a German - French film, theater and radio drama. After he received the Max Ophüls Award is named, which is awarded every year since 1980 as part of the film festival of the same name in Saarbrücken at the German film talent.
Life
Ophüls ( he adopted this stage name 1920 ) was born in Saarbrücken, the son of Jewish textile merchant Leopold Oppenheimer, owner of several clothing stores in Germany, and his wife Helene. His birthplace in the Försterstraße Nauwieser district stands there today. First Ophüls pursue a career in as an actor. He played at the Theater Aachen (1921-1923), at the Stadttheater Dortmund, he took over for the first time directing. From 1925 Ophüls also worked for radio. He was also a 1925-1926 hired as an actor at the Vienna Burgtheater, directed at the Academy Theater and was stage designer. At the Burgtheater he met actress Hilde Wall (1894-1980) know that his wife was 1926.
Shortly after the premiere of his fourth staging Ophüls 1926 was canceled in the wake of the rise of anti-Semitism. From 1928 to 1930 he worked as a director in Breslau, where he produced, among other works of Klabund, Bulgakov, Captain, Lampel, Kleist and Wedekind and it enjoyed recognition. Then he came to Berlin, where he assisted the Russian filmmaker Anatole Litvak in dialogue director of his films. 1931 Ophüls turned his first film Then I'd rather cod liver oil on an original story by Erich Kästner. After two more films in 1932 Ophüls had with the Schnitzler adaptation Flirtation ( 1932/1933 ) his breakthrough as a film director.
The coming to power of the Nazis made it Ophüls impossible to work in Germany. He left Berlin shortly after the Reichstag fire on 28 February 1933 and moved with his family to Paris. In 1938, Max Ophuls French citizen in 1942, he fled to America. In 1949 he returned from Los Angeles back to Paris. He died in 1957 in Hamburg from heart disease and was buried in Paris at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. His 1959 posthumously published memoirs bear the title game in existence. A flashback.
His son Marcel Ophüls was a successful director and documentary filmmaker.
Filmography
Radio plays
DVD
- 2010: Lola Montès - Second Sight, 110 minutes. French with English subtitles. 70 -minute documentary, audio commentary by Susan White
Awards
Autobiography
- Game in existence. A flashback. Goverts, Stuttgart 1959, 239 pp. ( unaltered reprint 1980, ISBN 3-921815-14-2 )
Film documentaries
- Max Ophüls - The beautiful good goods. German TV - documentary by Martina Müller, 1990
- Life: a carousel - Max Ophüls and his work. German TV Documentary of George Bense, 2002