Adolf Trotz
Adolf Trotz (September 6, 1895 – after 1937) was a German film director. He was known for his films in the Mittelfilme (mid-budget) genre.[1]
Early life
[edit]Trotz was born in Janow in what is now Poland in Silesia.[2] He originally studied pharmacy and philosophy, but began a career in film after the first World War.[2]
Career
[edit]Trotz's 1932 film Rasputin, Demon with Women was certified as "artistically valuable"; however, in 1933, Joseph Goebbels banned the film throughout Germany and ordered all prints and advertising materials to be destroyed. Trotz smuggled both the original pictorial and soundtrack negatives to a farmhouse in Austria.[3] At one point in 1933, he was part of the wave of German émigrés who fled to Paris.[4] In 1936, Goebbels banned his 1933 film Ways to a Good Marriage, which depicted the path to happiness as advice based on the sexology research done by Magnus Hirschfeld, and Trotz fled to Spain in 1936.[5][6] He continued producing films there until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.[7]
After Spain, Trotz moved to Italy in November 1936. He died in Italy shortly before the outbreak of World War II.
Personal life
[edit]In 1926, Trotz married screenwriter and editor Ruth Schweriner.[8] They remained married until his death.
Selected filmography
[edit]- Gold and Luck (1923)
- The Curse of Vererbung (1927)
- Sixteen Daughters and No Father (1928)
- The Woman in the Advocate's Gown (1929)[1]
- Tragedy of Youth (1929)
- Somnambul (1929)
- The Right of the Unborn (1929)
- Karriere (1930)
- It Happens Every Day (1930)
- A Storm Over Zakopane (1931)
- Shooting Festival in Schilda (1931)
- Elisabeth of Austria (1931)[5]
- Rasputin, Demon with Women (1932)[9]
- Tatras Zauber (1933)
- Ways to a Good Marriage (1933)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Prawer, Siegbert Salomon; Prawer, S. S. (2007). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books. pp. 84–88. ISBN 978-1-84545-303-9.
- ^ a b "TROTZ Adolf". cinephilazr.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ Soister, John T. (2015-09-02). Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography. McFarland. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-4766-1122-8.
- ^ Phillips, Alastair (2004). City of Darkness, City of Light: Emigré Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 56. doi:10.25969/MEDIAREP/4113. ISBN 9053566333.
- ^ a b Carroll, Elle (2022-11-30). "The Sisi Syllabus: Empress Elisabeth Onscreen". Vulture. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ "Adolf Trotz". web.archive.org (in German). 2008-02-22. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ Eckart, Wolfgang Uwe (2012-09-03). Medizin in der NS-Diktatur: Ideologie, Praxis, Folgen (in German). Böhlau Köln. p. 238. ISBN 978-3-412-21645-0.
- ^ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
- ^ Grange, William (2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5967-8.
External links
[edit]- Adolf Trotz at IMDb
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