Kurt Heuser

{{Short description|German screenwriter}} {{Infobox person | name = Kurt Heuser | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 23 November 1903 | birth_place = [[Strasbourg]], [[Alsace]], [[German Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|20 June 1975|23 November 1903}} | death_place = [[Ebersberg]], [[Bavaria]], [[West Germany]] | other_names = | occupation = Writer | years_active = 1934-1967 (film & TV) }} '''Kurt Heuser''' (23 November 1903 – 20 June 1975) was a German [[screenwriter]].<ref>Rentschler p.180</ref>

Early in his career he wrote ''[[Schlußakkord]]'' (''Final Accord'' or better ''Final Chord''), a German film [[melodrama]] of the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi period]].<ref name=Hake246note>Sabine Hake, ''Popular Cinema of the Third Reich'', Austin: University of Texas, 2001, {{ISBN|9780292734579}}, p. 246, note 4: the title "refers to a musical term" whereas that of Sierck's 1939 French-language ''Accord Final'' can also mean "concluding agreement".</ref> After 1945, Heuser continued to work as a screenwriter. He was in contact with many German-speaking filmmakers and writers and took part in the meetings of Group 47. His last work, “Malabella,” was unable to live up to his first successes as an author, although it did, for example, B. was highly praised by Christa Rotzoll in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Verlagsgruppe Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004337862_lgbo_com_220271 |access-date=2023-11-13 |website=Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online|doi=10.1163/9789004337862_lgbo_com_220271 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''[[Love, Death and the Devil]]'' (1934) * ''[[One Too Many on Board]]'' (1935) * ''[[Schlußakkord]]'' (1936) * ''[[Port Arthur (film)|Port Arthur]]'' (1936) * ''[[A Strange Guest]]'' (1936) * ''[[Condottieri (1937 film)|Condottieri]]'' (1937) * ''[[To New Shores]]'' (1937) * ''[[Red Orchids]]'' (1938) * ''[[Liberated Hands]]'' (1939) * ''[[Midsummer Night's Fire]]'' (1939) * ''[[The Three Codonas]]'' (1940) * ''[[The Girl from Fano]]'' (1941) * ''[[Rembrandt (1942 film)|Rembrandt]]'' (1942) * ''[[Paracelsus (film)|Paracelsus]]'' (1943) * ''[[The Trial (1948 film)|The Trial]]'' (1948) * ''[[Maresi]]'' (1948) * ''[[Bonus on Death]]'' (1950) * ''[[Call Over the Air]]'' (1951) * ''[[The Sergeant's Daughter]]'' (1952) * ''[[The Great Temptation]]'' (1952) * ''[[Alraune (1952 film)|Alraune]]'' (1952) * ''[[A Life for Do]]'' (1954) * ''[[André and Ursula]]'' (1955) * ''[[Before God and Man]]'' (1955) * ''[[I Was All His]]'' (1958) * ''[[The Forests Sing Forever]]'' (1959) * ''[[Every Day Isn't Sunday (1959 film)|Every Day Isn't Sunday]]'' (1959) * ''[[Carnival Confession]]'' (1960) * ''[[Girl from Hong Kong]]'' (1961) * ''[[Our House in Cameroon]]'' (1961) * ''[[Via Mala (1961 film)|Via Mala]]'' (1961) * ''[[Tales of a Young Scamp]]'' (1964) * ''[[The Gentlemen (1965 film)|The Gentlemen]]'' (1965)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Rentschler, Eric. ''The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife''. Harvard University Press, 1996.

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0381881}}

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