Fritz Peter Buch (21 December 1894 – 6 November 1964) was a German

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

and

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. He worked frequently during the

Nazi Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During H ...

period, with one of his plays, ''Einmal Mensch'' (''Once a Person'') being performed by the German unit in NYC of the

Federal Theatre Project The Federal Theatre Project (FTP; 1935–1939) was a theatre program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States. It was one of five Federal ...

; Buch worked less in the post-war years. He directed

Zarah Leander Zarah Leander (; 15 March 1907 – 23 June 1981) was a Sweden, Swedish singer and actress whose greatest success was in Germany between 1936 and 1943, when she was contracted to work for the state-owned UFA GmbH, Universum Film AG (UFA). Althou ...

in one of her comeback films ''

Cuba Cabana ''Cuba Cabana'' is a 1952 West German drama film directed by Fritz Peter Buch and starring Zarah Leander, O.W. Fischer and Paul Hartmann. It was the second film of an early 1950s comeback for Leander, who had been a major star during the Nazi era ...

'' (1952), in what proved to be his final directorial effort.Goble p.514

Selected filmography

Director

* '' Winter in the Woods'' (1936) * '' The Citadel of Warsaw'' (1937) * '' The Deruga Case'' (1938) * ''

Detours to Happiness ''Detours to Happiness'' (German: ''Umwege zum Glück'') is a 1939 German drama film directed by Fritz Peter Buch and starring Ewald Balser, Lil Dagover and Viktor Staal. Klaus p.184 It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin and on location ...

'' (1939) * '' Menschen im Sturm'' (1941) * '' The Black Robe'' (1944) * ''

'' (1952) * ''

A Very Big Child ''A Very Big Child'' ( ) is a 1952 West German comedy film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Georg Thomalla, Angelika Hauff and Gardy Granass.Osterland p. 114 It was shot at the Göttingen Studios as well as on location around Wiesbaden an ...

'' (1952)

Screenwriter

* ''

Sophienlund ''Sophienlund'' is a 1943 German comedy film directed by Heinz Rühmann and starring Harry Liedtke, Käthe Haack and Hannelore Schroth. It was based on a play of the same title by Helmut Weiss and Fritz von Woedtke.Goble p.494 It was shot at the ...

'' (1943) * ''

Engagement at Wolfgangsee ''Engagement at Wolfgangsee'' (German: ''Verlobung am Wolfgangsee'') is a 1956 Austrian comedy film directed by Helmut Weiss and starring Ingrid Andree, Wolf Albach-Retty and Maria Andergast. The film was shot in Agfacolor at the Schönbrunn Stu ...

'' (1956)

Playwright

* ''Einmal Mensch'' (1936-37)

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1894 births 1964 deaths Film people from Brandenburg 20th-century German screenwriters German male screenwriters People from Frankfurt (Oder) {{Germany-film-bio-stub