Writing

Curt Thomalla

Born July 12, 1890 · Friedland in Oberschlesien, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Korfantów, Opolskie, Poland]

Died March 3, 1939 · aged 48

German screenwriter, doctor, and public health educator. He worked in the area of public health and eugenics into the Nazi era before dying by suicide in 1939.

Known For

This educational film combines medical information and story to teach the viewers about the prevention and treatment of syphilis. The four episodes cover the stories of students looking to pick up prostitutes, a careless medical student, a wet nurse who has infected an infant, and a country girl afraid of seeking treatment.

A German silent documentary film that deals with the controversial and innovative work of Dr. Eugen Steinach, an Austrian physiologist and endocrinologist. The film documents Steinach's research on human biology, particularly his experimental work on the rejuvenation of aging men, which involved a surgical procedure called vasoligation.

Maya the Bee is a dramatised documentary film displaying living bees and other forest animals interacting with each other. Based on the book by Waldemar Bonsels, he also assisted himself in cinematography, along with A.O. Weitzenberg. The film was restored in 2004, after a decent copy (nitrate) of this film survived in the Finnish Film Archives possession and was done by Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv with the support of Waldemar Bonsels-Stiftung.

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