Kurt Heuser

Kurt Heuser (23 November 1903 – 20 June 1975) was a German screenwriter.^[1]

Kurt Heuser
Born	23 November 1903 Strasbourg, Alsace, German Empire
Died	20 June 1975 (1975-06-21) (aged 71) Ebersberg, Bavaria, West Germany
Occupation	Writer
Years active	1934-1967 (film & TV)

Early in his career he wrote Schlußakkord (Final Accord or better Final Chord), a German film melodrama of the Nazi period.^[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 (1934)
• One Too Many on Board (1935)
• Schlußakkord (1936)
• Port Arthur (1936)
• A Strange Guest (1936)
• 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)
• Paracelsus (1943)
• 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)
• 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)
• Carnival Confession (1960)
• Girl from Hong Kong (1961)
• Our House in Cameroon (1961)
• Via Mala (1961)
• The Gentlemen (1965)