Fritz Schulz
- Acting
- April 25, 1896 · Karlsbad, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic]
- May 9, 1972
Biography
Fritz Schulz was born on April 25, 1896, in Karlsbad, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic]. He was an actor and director known for his work in *Ende schlecht, alles gut* (1934), *Kaczmarek* (1928), and *Dienst ist Dienst* (1931). He was married to Ágnes Eszterházy. He died on May 9, 1972, in Zurich, Switzerland. A character actor and singer, he appeared on stage starting in 1913 and in films the following year. He typically played romantic heroes and gentlemen or dashing officers in musical comedies or crime melodramas. As a "suspect" Jew, he was expelled from the Reich Theatre Chamber in 1933 and briefly interned. He was eventually released through the efforts of his wife (former silent film star Agnes Esterházy) and fled to Switzerland. He became a member and director at the Stadttheater Zürich (1940–56) and the Schauspielhaus Zürich (1956–69), specializing in operettas as well as classical and modern plays. Under the National Socialists, a ban was soon proclaimed on screening Austrian films featuring Jewish participation in Germany. Many Jewish filmmakers began producing their own films in German. The first independent production company was founded as early as 1934 by émigrés Fritz Schulz, Rudi Loewenthal, and Erich Morawsky; their first film was titled *Salto in die Seligkeit* (1934). However, just a year later—following their direction of *Letzte Liebe* (1935)—they were forced to close the production company. The press described this type of film as "émigré films" or simply as independent films.
Known for
Filmography
- Die Perle – Aus dem Tagebuch einer Hausgehilfin · Professor Goldschmidt
- Sacred Waters · Der Dorfpfarrer
- Die unvollkommene Ehe · Ernst Fiala - Bürovorsteher
- Die ganze Welt singt nur Amore · Paul Fiala, ihr Vater, Musikprofessor
- The Light of Love · Dr. Franz Kellermann
- Ich und meine Frau · Ernst Noak
- Gruß und Kuss aus der Wachau · Director
- Dilemma · Mister Reed
- Skeppsbrutne Max · Director
- Last Love · Director
- Ende schlecht, alles gut · Director
- Salto in die Seligkeit · Fritz Wiesinger, Director
- The Constant Nymph · Jacob Birnbaum
- Das Tankmädel · Hubert Krell
- Waltz Time · Fritz Eisenstein
- Tell Me Who You Are · Dr. Claudius Berger
- Sehnsucht 202 · Bobby
- Ja, treu ist die Soldatenliebe · Bimbo
- The Song of Night · Koretzky
- Montparnasse Girl · André Laboudèle
- The Spanish Fly · Heinrich Meisel
- Einer Frau muß man alles verzeih'n · Fritz Meyer, Weinreisender
- Duty Is Duty · Kaczmarek
- The rejuvenated Adolar · Dr. Bruno Stürmer, Hertas Gatte
- The Soaring Maiden · Paul Brandt
- The Battle of Bademuende · Franz - Infanterist
- The Stork Goes on Strike · Harry
- My Cousin From Warsaw · Fred Carteret
- The love doctor · Sally Hobbs
- The Beggar Student · Jan
- Headlong into happiness · Marcel Durant
- Kasernenzauber · Husar Hintertupfer
- Three Days in the Guardhouse · Max Plettke
- Schoeller's Boarding House · Jallings
- A waltz in the sleeping compartment · Günther
- Only You · Georg Lenz
- Komm' zu mir zum Rendezvous · Claude
- The Inn at the Rhine · Stud. jur. Heinz Babinger
- Tonight - Eventually · Teddy
- There is a woman who will never forget you · Writer
- Mein Herz gehört Dir... · Tjurkod
- Alimente · Anton Kulicke
- Wenn Du noch eine Heimat hast · Stutz
- Dear Homeland
- Möblierte Zimmer
- Tales from the Vienna Woods
- Kaczmarek
- Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
- Die Frau mit dem Etwas · Gustav Lenz
- Cold Heart · Peter Munk
- Das Spiel mit dem Schicksal · Heinrich Höther
- Lola Montez, the King’s Dancer · Junger Venezianer
- C.d.E.
- Tanja, die Frau an der Kette
- Turfpiraten
- Das Mädel von Picadilly
- Trix, der Roman einer Millionärin
- Miss Beryll... die Laune eines Millionärs
- Monte Carlo
- Die schwarze Schmach
- Anna Karenina
- Der Apachenlord
- Die Marchesa d'Arminiani · Lothar von Raff
- Der Amönenhof
- Different from the Others · Kurt Sivers
- Kill No More!
- When Four Do the Same · Tobias Schmalzstich, Lehrling
- Ossis Tagebuch · Fritz