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Hans Jacoby (1904–1963) was a German screenwriter. Jacoby was of Jewish background and was forced to go into exile when the Nazi Party took power in 1933. Jacoby settled in the United States for many years, working on the screenplays of a number of Hollywood productions.
Hans Jacoby was born on 23 October 1904 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and producer, known for It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958), Phantom of the Opera (1943) and Carnival Story (1954). He died in October 1963 in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Writer, Producer
- October 23, 1904
- Hans Jacoby
Hans Jacoby (1898–1967) was a German art director who designed the film sets for many German productions. He worked for a number of companies during the Weimar Era, notably Bavaria Film, Terra Film and Universum Film AG.
Hans Jacoby is known as an Screenplay, Writer, Adaptation, Art Direction, Story, Production Design, Scenario Writer, and Producer. Some of their work includes Phantom of the Opera, It Happened in Broad Daylight, Tarzan and the Amazons, Sirocco, The Black Sheep, Ship of the Dead, Champagne for Caesar, and Der brave Soldat Schwejk.
This collection documents the life of the painter Hans Jacoby, who immigrated to the United States via Holland and Shanghai. Documents include family papers, personal writings, correspondence, brochures, official and other administrative documents, newspaper clippings, photographs and autographs.
Hans Jacoby fled in 1938 to the Netherlands, where he was interned by the Dutch government in Hook of Holland. He was able to leave the camp and arrived, together with his wife Emma Jacoby, in Shanghai in 1940 where he continued to work as an artist.
Hans Jacoby was a gifted and conscientious teacher, judging from the lessons that have survived among the papers of one of his pupils, Fred Walker, and the 32 letters that accompany them. Some lessons are handwritten, others typed and illustrated by hand, all are brown and dog-eared after more than 60 years.
