Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} F.p. 1 antwortet nicht by Kurt Siodmak F.p. 1 antwortet nicht by Kurt Siodmak. Biography by Gerd Gemünden Professor of German Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Comparative Literature Dartmouth College. (b. Dresden 1902 – d. Three Rivers, California 2000) Born as Kurt Siodmak. Writer. The younger brother of director Robert Siodmak, Curt Siodmak earned a PhD in mathematics before turning to writing novels. The modest royalties he earned were invested in the film, Menschen am Sonntag (1929), a documentary-like chronicle of the lives of four Berliners on a Sunday. Celebrated as a hallmark of neo-realist and avant-garde filmmaking, the film was based on Curt’s own story, and co-directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, with a script by Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann behind the camera. Over the next few years, Curt Siodmak wrote numerous novels, scripts and short stories, including the novel F. P. 1 antwortet nicht which became a popular film starring Hans Albers and Peter Lorre. When Siodmak heard an anti-semitic tirade by Goebbels, he decided to emigrate to England. In London and Paris he made a modest living as screenwriter before leaving for the US in 1937. His breakthrough came with the script for The Wolf Man (dir. George Waggner, 1941) which established this beast as the most popular monster of the film industry beside Dracula and Frankenstein. Siodmak’s science-fiction novel Donovan’s Brain (1943) was an international bestseller and adapted for the screen many times. Other important films he wrote include Son of Dracula , I Walked With a Zombie and The Beast With Five Fingers . Though often eclipsed by the fame of his older brother, Curt Siodmak was perhaps the more talented and original of the two artists. His postwar “Epistles to the Germans” remain an insightful commentary on opportunism in Nazi Germany. B�cher suchen. 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Ob Bestseller oder Klassiker, das ZVAB bietet Ihnen eine breite Auswahl an gebrauchten B�chern: St�bern Sie in unseren Rubriken und entdecken Sie ein Buch-Schn�ppchen. Film Review: F.P.1 Doesn’t Answer (1932) SYNOPSIS: “Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1 is a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: In the early thirties American cinema seemed dominated by angry physicians like Doctor Frankenstein, Doctor X and Doctor Fu Manchu. Meanwhile, in Germany, the science fiction film had not yet fallen victim of Mad Scientist syndrome, and 1932 saw the release of two totally different genre-related productions. One was Atlantide (1932) directed by G.W. Pabst and based on the popular 1919 novel by Pierre Benoit about Antinea, the mysterious Queen of Atlantis. F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht (1932) also known as F.P.1 Doesn’t Answer , directed by Karl Hartl , was Germany’s other contribution to the genre that year. Based on a novel by Kurt Siodmak – who eventually moved to Hollywood, changed his first name to Curt and wrote The Wolf Man (1940), Donovan’s Brain (1953), The Invisible Man (1933) franchise and much more – who wrote the screenplay with Walter Reisch , it has been described as in the tradition of Metropolis (1926) and Die Frau In Mond (1929), but Hartl was no Fritz Lang . F.P.1 Doesn’t Answer is a rather slow-moving and weakly-plotted film ostensibly about the construction of a giant floating runway to be moored in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, but it is actually more concerned with a tedious love triangle. The central character is an egotistical aviator named Ellissen (played by Hans Albers acting like he’s just walked in from an opera) who helps his best friend Droste ( Paul Hartmann ), a designer, convince a shipyard to build Floating Platform #1. The sister of the three shipyard owners, Claire ( Sybille Schmitz ) falls in love with Ellissen but he leaves her to fly non-stop around the world from Berlin to Berlin. Unfortunately, he is not seen again until two-and-a-half years later, when we find out he crashed his plane in the Australian outback and was too embarrassed to emerge from the bush. I’m not making this up. By the time he returns, F.P.1 is completed and in position in the Atlantic and Claire has switched her affections to Droste, who is now in charge of the platform, which has become a city on the ocean, with runways, hangars, hotels, and shopping centres. At one point the crew of F.P.1 become victims of a saboteur, who has gassed them all to sleep. Before the chief engineer ( Herrmann Speelmans ) flees he opens the valves, causing the platform to slowly sink. Claire finds the badly injured Droste and takes care of him, and Ellissen comes to the realisation that Claire is slipping away from him. After a short while, he pulls himself together and takes a plane out to get help. He sees a ship, jumps from his plane, is taken aboard the ship, and calls for help via radio so a fleet of ships and planes can be sent to rescue F.P.1. All ends happily: Droste gets the girl, while Ellissen joins an expedition to capture a giant South America condor. Rather on the level of a mediocre pulp novel, it has nothing of the slickness, vitality or humour of similar Hollywood products of the period. Even the model work, which is somewhat sparse, isn’t terribly convincing. The only real source of entertainment is the overacting of Hans Albers and the languid posing of the statuesque Sybille Schmitz . A young Peter Lorre also appears in the film, but he doesn’t have much to do except stand around and look mournful, and for good reason. It was the final film that either Lorre or Kurt Siodmak would make in Germany before the outbreak of war. Curt Siodmak – founder of the Wolf Man legend. Curt Siodmak was born Kurt Siodmak in Dresden, Germany, on the 10th of August 1902, and would go on to define the identity of one of the all- time classic monsters. Born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents originally from families in Leipzig, Curt Siodmak worked as an engineer and earned a doctorate in mathematics. While working at a Berlin newspaper, he and his wife-to-be Henrietta de Perrot signed on as extras in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1926). One of Curt Siodmak’s early horror films was The Invisible Man Returns (Universal 1940) Keen to pursue the creative arts, and increasingly involved in the Berlin filmmaking scene, Curt Siodmak invested royalties from his early novels in the 1929 movie Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday) . Directed by Siodmak’s older brother Robert, the film became a huge hit and predated the upcoming neorealism movement by several years, also enabling Siodmak to join the prestigious Ufa studios. Writing a wealth of novels, short stories and screenplays, Curt Siodmak became a recognised name in his day, his 1931 novel F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht (F.P.1 Doesn’t Answer) being turned into a German-language movie in 1932 (an early outing for Peter Lorre) and re-filmed in English in 1933. F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht was the final movie that Siodmak would be involved in on German soil: hearing an anti-Semitic speech by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, he decided to leave his native land for England, where he worked as a screenwriter before moving to the United States in 1937. Curt Siodmak had a special affinity with his lycanthropic creation for The Wolf Man (Universal 1941) Assisted in gaining a job at Universal by his friend, the director Joe May (who had himself given Fritz Lang one of his big breaks), Curt Siodmak worked on the script for May’s The Invisible Man Returns (1940). A taste for the uncanny, and the vivid memories of his own fear of persecution by the Nazis, led Siodmak to write the screenplay for The Wolf Man (1941). In doing so, he created the third most recognised classic monster after Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster; Siodmak’s lycanthropic creation, and the myths surrounding it, have passed into mythology and are now confused with historical folk tales. Curt Siodmak openly recognised the influence of his own experiences in his creation of the Wolf Man character, stating: “I am the Wolf Man. I was forced into a fate I didn’t want: to be a Jew in Germany.” With his screenplay for House of Frankenstein (Universal 1944), Curt Siodmak showed he was a past master at combining all the classic monsters into one film. Following the success of The Wolf Man , Siodmak worked on a wealth of other horror projects, writing The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) and seeing his 1942 novel Donovan’s Brain made into several films, notably The Brain (1962). He also wrote the screenplay for House of Frankenstein (1944) and Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956), among many other famed horror movies. However, his career was not without difficulties, a memorable incident seeing him fired from Son of Dracula (1943) by his own brother. Curt Siodmak passed away in his sleep on the 2nd of September, 2000, at his home in Three Rivers, California. Kurt Siodmak. Kurt Siodmak was born August 10, 1902, in Dresden. He studied mathematics and began to publish stories from the mid-1920s on. In 1928, Siodmak started to write screenplays and developed the documentary feature film "Menschen am Sonntag" (People on Sunday) which eventually became the first success for his brother, director Robert Siodmak. The film version of Siodmak's novel "F.P. 1 antwortet nicht" (F.P.1 Doesn't Answer) about the construction of an aeroplane platform in the middle of the ocean was Siodmak's last film in Germany before he left for Tessin in 1933 and later went to France to escape the Nazi regime. In France, Siodmak wrote the script for "La crise est finie" (The Depression Is Over), an optimistic evocation of the crisis, directed by his brother Robert. But due to his insufficient command of the French language, Siodmak had to leave for England. In London, Siodmak finally enjoyed his international break-through with the adaptation of Bernhard Kellermann's novel "Der Tunnel" (The Tunnel), directed by Maurice Elvey. In 1937, Siodmak emigrated to the USA where he was already known for his science fiction stories. He started to work for Paramount and was repeatedly employed as a "script doctor". In 1938, Siodmak and Billy Wilder participated in the foundation of the "Screenwriters Guild of America". At Universal, Siodmak made his name as science fiction and horror movie specialist with the screenplay to the eminently successful "The Invisible Man Returns". Furthermore, he became an international star with the novel "Donovan's Brain" he wrote in the summer of 1942. In 1943, Curt (by now spelled with a "C") Siodmak obtained American citizenship and reported to the "Office of Strategic Services". After an initial operative's training in San Diego, he worked in a propaganda department in Washington and wrote leaflets against Nazi Germany. Due to an agreement with his brother Robert not to work in the other one's field of director and screenplay writer, respectively, Curt Siodmak did not direct another movie until 1951, after his brother had returned to Europe. In 1998, Curt Siodmak came to Berlin for the extensive retrospective of the Siodmak brothers' work at the Berlinale. On September 2, 2000, Curt Siodmak died of cancer at his ranch in Three Rivers, California.