# Kurt Heuser > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kurt_Heuser > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kurt_Heuser.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Heuser > Source revision: 1357036736 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) German screenwriter Kurt Heuser Born 23 November 1903 Strasbourg, Alsace, German Empire Died 20 June 1975(1975-06-20) (aged 71) Ebersberg, Bavaria, West Germany Occupation Writer Years active 1934-1967 (film & TV) **Kurt Heuser** (23 November 1903 – 20 June 1975) was a German [screenwriter](/source/Screenwriter).[1] Early in his career he wrote *[Schlußakkord](/source/Schlu%C3%9Fakkord)* (*Final Accord* or better *Final Chord*), a German film [melodrama](/source/Melodrama) of the [Nazi period](/source/Nazi_Germany).[2] 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.[3] ## Selected filmography - *[Love, Death and the Devil](/source/Love%2C_Death_and_the_Devil)* (1934) - *[One Too Many on Board](/source/One_Too_Many_on_Board)* (1935) - *[Schlußakkord](/source/Schlu%C3%9Fakkord)* (1936) - *[Port Arthur](/source/Port_Arthur_(film))* (1936) - *[A Strange Guest](/source/A_Strange_Guest)* (1936) - *[Condottieri](/source/Condottieri_(1937_film))* (1937) - *[To New Shores](/source/To_New_Shores)* (1937) - *[Red Orchids](/source/Red_Orchids)* (1938) - *[Liberated Hands](/source/Liberated_Hands)* (1939) - *[Midsummer Night's Fire](/source/Midsummer_Night's_Fire)* (1939) - *[The Three Codonas](/source/The_Three_Codonas)* (1940) - *[The Girl from Fano](/source/The_Girl_from_Fano)* (1941) - *[Rembrandt](/source/Rembrandt_(1942_film))* (1942) - *[Paracelsus](/source/Paracelsus_(film))* (1943) - *[The Trial](/source/The_Trial_(1948_film))* (1948) - *[Maresi](/source/Maresi)* (1948) - *[Bonus on Death](/source/Bonus_on_Death)* (1950) - *[Call Over the Air](/source/Call_Over_the_Air)* (1951) - *[The Sergeant's Daughter](/source/The_Sergeant's_Daughter)* (1952) - *[The Great Temptation](/source/The_Great_Temptation)* (1952) - *[Alraune](/source/Alraune_(1952_film))* (1952) - *[A Life for Do](/source/A_Life_for_Do)* (1954) - *[André and Ursula](/source/Andr%C3%A9_and_Ursula)* (1955) - *[Before God and Man](/source/Before_God_and_Man)* (1955) - *[I Was All His](/source/I_Was_All_His)* (1958) - *[The Forests Sing Forever](/source/The_Forests_Sing_Forever)* (1959) - *[Every Day Isn't Sunday](/source/Every_Day_Isn't_Sunday_(1959_film))* (1959) - *[Carnival Confession](/source/Carnival_Confession)* (1960) - *[Girl from Hong Kong](/source/Girl_from_Hong_Kong)* (1961) - *[Our House in Cameroon](/source/Our_House_in_Cameroon)* (1961) - *[Via Mala](/source/Via_Mala_(1961_film))* (1961) - *[Tales of a Young Scamp](/source/Tales_of_a_Young_Scamp)* (1964) - *[The Gentlemen](/source/The_Gentlemen_(1965_film))* (1965) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Rentschler p.180 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Hake246note_2-0)** Sabine Hake, *Popular Cinema of the Third Reich*, Austin: University of Texas, 2001, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780292734579](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/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". 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Verlagsgruppe Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH"](https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004337862_lgbo_com_220271). *Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online*. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1163/9789004337862_lgbo_com_220271](https://doi.org/10.1163%2F9789004337862_lgbo_com_220271). Retrieved 2023-11-13. ## Bibliography - Rentschler, Eric. *The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife*. Harvard University Press, 1996. ## External links - [Kurt Heuser](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0381881/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Israel Artists FID People Deutsche Biographie DDB Other IdRef Yale LUX This article about a screenwriter is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Screenwriter-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3AScreenwriter-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Screenwriter-stub) This biographical article related to film in Germany is a stub. 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