Richard Schweizer
Richard Schweizer ( born December 23, 1900 in Zurich, † March 30, 1965 ) was a Swiss writer and two-time Oscar winner.
Life
He studied literature in Zurich and worked from 1920 as a film critic for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 1921/22, he worked as a stage designer at the Stadttheater Zurich and the Zurich Schauspielhaus.
Swiss then went to Berlin, where he worked as a journalist and photojournalist. Back in Switzerland, he wrote since the early 1930s texts for advertising, industrial and documentary films, from 1933 also for movies. Particularly successful was his collaboration with director Leopold Lindtberg, besides he also cooperated with Franz Schnyder.
Swiss has worked on the scripts of almost all the key films of the spiritual national defense and the Praesens humanism during the Second World War. Especially his adaptations of literature documents the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller and Jeremias Gotthelf found attention to his adaptations of novels Heidi by Johanna Spyri.
For Marie -Louise and The Blight he also received an Oscar ever, for the subscribed a Golden Globe. From 1952 to 1965 he headed the New Stage Theatre Swiss AG, a member of the PEN Club and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was retired voluntarily from the life.
Screenplays
Libretto
- Casanova in Switzerland. Opera. Music: Paul Burkhard. UA 1943 Zurich