Walter Forster (screenwriter)
Walter Forster ( born January 22, 1900 in Vienna, † December 14, 1968 in Tegernsee; native Walter Kudernatsch ) was an Austrian writer.
He grew up in Brno, attended the Artillery Cadet School in Traiskirchen and 1919-1921 the Graduate School. He then studied law at the University of Vienna. In 1922 he took up a bank job, but at the same time worked as a guest student for the film.
In 1929 he went to Berlin and lay the pseudonym Walter Forster to. Forster was now involved in the following years as a co-writer on various German films, often only as a source of ideas, whose manuscripts were then revised by colleagues. As a rule, he created templates for typical entertainment films about love and suffering that were loosened with a little comedy. In addition, however, he also wrote screenplays for Nazi propaganda films such as Togger and six-day furlough.
In the 1950s, Forster was able to continue its activities in the German - Austrian film easily. After 1960 he worked several times for television and wrote several episodes of the crime series The Crime Museum.