Kurt Walter Götz Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Curt Goetz (November 17, 1888 – September 12, 1960), born Kurt Walter Götz, was a Swiss German writer, actor and film director. Curt Goetz was regarded as one of the most brilliant comedy writers of his time in the German-speaking world. Together with his wife Valérie von Martens he acted in his own plays and also filmed them. He was a distant relative of the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, with whom he was often compared.
In 1938 he played under his own direction and script in the movie "Napoleon ist an allem schuld".
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Goetz and Valerie von Martens returned to Europe in 1945, living in Switzerland by Lake Thun (Goetz had Swiss nationality from birth), where Goetz wrote some successful novels. The couple later moved to Liechtenstein.
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At the beginning of the talkies he didn't appear as an actor but as a screenwriter, especially his witty dialogues for "Glückskinder" (1936) and "Sieben Ohrfeigen" (1937) were classic examples for his humorous talent.
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Curt Goetz had together with his wife to emigrate to the USA in 1939.
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The actor and writer Curt Goetz made especially a name for his humorous stories. Many of his books were used for movies, beside it he was also pulled near for the adaption of scripts.
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Curt Goetz had together with his wife to emigrate to the USA in 1939. There he soon became a coauthor of scripts, among others for the Greta Garbo movie "Two Faced Woman - Die Frau mit den zwei Gesichtern" (1941). In California Goetz drafted his tale Tatjana and a new version of his Hokuspokus. He also re-worked an older play into The House in Montevideo, which he successfully produced in the Playhouse Theatre on Broadway in 1945.
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In 1923 he married Valérie von Martens. He and Valérie bought a chicken-farm in Van Nuys, California and proceeded (successfully) to breed chickens.
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He studied acting under the Berlin actor Emanuel Reicher, and in 1907 he made his stage debut at the Stadttheater in Rostock. In Rostock, he also wrote his first sketches for the stage. He then played at theaters in Nuremberg and then went to Berlin.
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In 1946 he returned to Europe and settled in Switzerland. He had still great successes with his own plays like "Das Haus in Montevideo", which was a success at the theater as well as a film adaption.
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His film career started already in 1912 when he was in evidence as an actor in "Schwarzes Blut". In the following years he appeared in many further silent movies .
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For the movie "Friedrich Schiller" (1923) - for which he especially founded the Kurt-Götz-Film-Compagnie GmbH - he made also his debut as a director.
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Kurt Walter Götz was born in Mainz, Germany as the son of the Swiss wine examiner Bernhard Götz, and his German wife of Italian and French descent, Selma (born Rocco). His father died in 1890. His mother then went with the two-year-old Curt to Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, where she managed a private clinic.
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After the success of the Greta Garbo movie Two-Faced Woman he was offered a 5-year contract. However, he refused this, saying he had had enough experience with the American film-industry.
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Curt Goetz retired from the film business after that and concentrated to his theater career. Together with his second wife Valerie von Martens,who he got married in 1923, and with the actors Hermann Vallentin and Walter Steinbeck he went on journey for guest performances.
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He was a distant relative of the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, with whom he was often compared.
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In 1939 he went to Hollywood to study film-making. He worked with the director Reinhold Schunzel, among others, and several of his comedies were turned into films.
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Curt Goetz began his acting career at the theater where he got first engagements in 1907. From 1911 he also wrote successfully plays which were also filmed in later years.
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His mother remarried, and his stepfather encouraged and financed his first steps in the theatre.
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Curt Goetz was regarded as one of the most brilliant comedy writers of his time in the German-speaking world.
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He wrote his biggest success in 1925, the crime comedy "Hokuspokus".
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dedictví slecny Innocencie
2003
TV Movie story
Er-Götz-liches
1984
TV Movie play
Kleine Gaben
1979
TV Movie segment "Ausbruch des Weltfriedens"
Der Lampenschirm
1976
TV Movie writer
De sabijnse maagdenroof
1973
TV Movie
Onwettige Huwelik
1970
play "Das Haus in Montevideo
Die Kommode
1969
TV Movie play
Herbst
1968
TV Short novel
Der Lügner und die Nonne
1967
play
Teatterituokio
1966
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Hokuspokus oder: Wie lasse ich meinen Mann verschwinden...?
$1 Million
