Writing

Curt Thomalla

Born — Died

1890-07-12 — 1939-03-03

Place of birth

Friedland in Oberschlesien, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Korfantów, Opolskie, Poland]

Known for

Writing

Credits

8 titles

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

Maya the Bee poster
8.0

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.

Maya the Bee

1926

No artwork available
10.0

A woman who has inherited hemophilia is rejected by her doctor fiance after he finds out about her illness. Fearing rejection, she hides it from her new husband, a wealthy older banker.

Der Fluch der Vererbung

1927

Steinach Film poster
NR

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.

Steinach Film

1922

Falsche Scham poster
10.0

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.

Falsche Scham

1926

No artwork available
NR

Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.

Geißel der Menschheit

1926

No artwork available
NR

A fly, taken with humanity, decides that it would be best if all flies were wiped out.

Die Fliege Majanka und ihre Abenteuer

1927

Behind the camera

Maya the Bee poster
8.0

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.

Maya the Bee

1926

Maya the Bee poster
8.0

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.

Maya the Bee

1926

No artwork available
10.0

A woman who has inherited hemophilia is rejected by her doctor fiance after he finds out about her illness. Fearing rejection, she hides it from her new husband, a wealthy older banker.

Der Fluch der Vererbung

1927

Steinach Film poster
NR

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.

Steinach Film

1922

Falsche Scham poster
10.0

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.

Falsche Scham

1926

No artwork available
NR

Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.

Geißel der Menschheit

1926

No artwork available
NR

A fly, taken with humanity, decides that it would be best if all flies were wiped out.

Die Fliege Majanka und ihre Abenteuer

1927

No artwork available
NR

Documentary on how the starvation blockade affected the public health.

Die Wirkung der Hungerblockade auf die Volksgesundheit

1921