Max Glass is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Autrichien born on 12 june 1881 at Jarosław (Pologne)
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Nationality AustriaBirth 12 june 1881 at Jarosław (
Pologne)
Death 18 july 1965 (at 84 years) at Paris (
France)
Max Glass (1881–1965) was an Austrian screenwriter and film producer.
Glass was born in Jaroslau which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born into a Jewish family, but later converted to Catholicism. He gained a PHD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna. Glass entered the German film industry as a writer, but soon became a producer. By the mid-1920s he rose to be head of production at Terra Film before breaking away to set up his own production company in 1928 Glass' lover the actress Ruth Werner appeared in a number of his films but was unable to marry him until he had secured a divorce from his first wife.
Following the Nazi takeover of power in Germany in 1933, Glass' production companies were shut down and he was forced to go into exile in France. Glass again worked as a producer, but ran into further trouble following the German invasion of France during the Second World War. In 1942 the collaborationist Vichy Government stripped him of his citizenship. Glass and Werner then went to Brazil and United States for the remainder of the conflict, only returning to France once the war was over. They finally married in 1957. Biography
Max Glass est né à Jarosław, en Galicie-Orientale, à l'époque dans l'empire austro-hongrois, aujourd'hui dans la voïvodie des Basses-Carpates, en Pologne. Il est issu d'une famille juive mais il s'est plus tard converti au Catholicisme. Il obtient un Philosophiæ doctor en philosophie à l'Université de Vienne. Glass fait ses débuts dans l'industrie du film allemand en tant que journaliste (?), mais devient rapidement producteur. Au milieu des années 1920, il est à la tête de production à Terra Film avant démissionner pour monter sa propre société de production en 1928.
Après la prise de pouvoir des Nazis en Allemagne en 1933, la société de production de Glass est fermée et il est obligé de s'exiler en France. Max Glass travaille alors a nouveau comme producteur. En 1942, le Régime de Vichy lui enlève sa citoyenneté. Glass part alors au Brésil et aux États-Unis durant le reste du conflit, ne retournant en France qu'une fois la guerre terminée.
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