Ernst Lubitsch

"I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions? “'''
Ernst Lubitsch (born January 29, 1892 in Berlin; † November 30, 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was a human being who became famous worldwide above all for the Lubitsch Touch named after him, which shaped the Hollywood film comedies of the 1920s and 30s. He was born not far from the Platz and grew up in the Scheunenviertel. 
== Life and work ==
==== before and during ∇ ====
At the age of four, he and his family moved to Schönhauser Allee 183. When the ∇ was built about 450 meters south-east, he was a student at the Sophiengymnasium on Sophienstraße. So he experienced the first season of Abriss des Scheunenviertels every day until he left school at the age of 16. He then did an apprenticeship as a fabric dealer. When he met Max Reinhardt, however, he quickly found more interest in theater. After an engagement at the DT he acted under Reinhardt's reign on the Volksbühne. Whether it was the short commute to work or financial advantages or simply the general comfort in the Hotel Mama can no longer be said, at least he stayed in his parents' house until he was 29 years old. In Lubitschland: Nicola Lubitsch in conversation with the Frankfurter Rundschau 
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Lubitsch quickly switched to film and was particularly active behind the camera and went to where all filmmakers (even if almost everyone will deny it) are drawn to: Hollywood! The roaring twenties were indeed golden for him and both as a director and above all as a screenwriter he quickly rose to the top league of his field. The success of his scripts for comedies such as Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) or To Be or Not to Be (1941), which he also directed. This earned the Scheunenviertel offspring an Oscar for his life's work in 1947. The fact that he was able to pick it up personally before his heart stopped working six months later is further proof of this extraordinarily precise timing.
Over the past few decades, attempts have been made again and again in his hometown to keep the memory of his life's work alive. Retrospectives of his films have repeatedly taken place at Babylon. Timothy Grossmann advocates that part of Weydingerstraße be named after him, which, according to Lubitsch's daughter Nicola, will probably not happen during her lifetime. <Ref name = "nicola"> < / ref>
A memorial plaque to Lubitsch that was handed over to the Zoo-Palast in what was then West Berlin in 1958 disappeared without a trace. Another one hangs today on the house where he spent his childhood.
In 2011 he was also honored with a star on the Boulevard der Stars (a pirated copy of the Walk of Fame) on Potsdamer Platz.
== Links ==
The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch - Scott's fan page in English
== References ==
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