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Willy Haas (6 July 1891 – 4 September 1973) was a German editor, film critic, and screenwriter. He wrote for 19 films between 1922 and 1933, and was a member of the jury at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival .
Willy Haas was born on 6 July 1891 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Thérèse Raquin (1928), L'amour qu'il faut aux femmes (1934) and Dancing Vienna (1927). He was married to Herta Doctor, Hanna Waldeck and Jarmila Ambrozova. He died on 4 September 1973 in Hamburg, Germany.
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(1891–1973), critic and editor. The son of a German-speaking Jewish lawyer in Prague, Willy Haas became friendly with Franz Kafka, Max Brod, and Franz Werfel while still at school and was a central member of the literary Prague circle, serving as editor, with Otto Pick, of its literary magazine Herder-Blätter.
Haas was a Czech-German writer and scenarist who migrated to Bombay during the Nazi purge of European Jews. The translation, by Xan Holt, offers rich atmospheric and technical details about an underdocumented period in Indian film history.
Dec 5, 2013 · Summary. A mong the G erman-speaking exiles who made India their “exile homeland” (1933–45) to escape persecution from the Nazi regime in Europe was Willy Haas (1891–1973), a Prague-born Germanophone of Jewish origin, and writer, critic, and publisher of the most widely read Weimar literary journal Die literarische Welt.
Willy Haas was an homme de lettres, i.e. a man of letters, and one of the great literary editors of Germany's legendary second Weimar period. He was also one of the first avant-garde film
Jun 25, 2024 · Willy Haas in Bombay. Mukherjee, Debashree; Holt, Xan. This archival piece presents an excerpted translation from the memoirs of Willy Haas, Die Literarische Welt (1958). Haas was a Czech-German writer and scenarist who migrated to Bombay during the Nazi purge of European Jews.
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