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Adolf Trotz

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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

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

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

In 1926, Trotz married screenwriter and editor Ruth Schweriner.[8] They remained married until his death.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b "TROTZ Adolf". cinephilazr.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  3. ^ Soister, John T. (2015-09-02). Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography. McFarland. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-4766-1122-8.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ a b Carroll, Elle (2022-11-30). "The Sisi Syllabus: Empress Elisabeth Onscreen". Vulture. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  6. ^ "Adolf Trotz". web.archive.org (in German). 2008-02-22. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek". portal.dnb.de. Retrieved 2024-11-22.
  9. ^ Grange, William (2008). Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5967-8.