{
  "director": "Kurt Hellmer",
  "works": [
    {
      "title": "Love From A Stranger",
      "originalAuthor": "Frank Vosper (after Agatha Christie)",
      "note": "German-language adaptation staged with Ernst Deutsch at the Kammerspiele of the Theater in der Josefstadt (Vienna); ran roughly 100 performances and travelled to Prague and other cities."
    },
    {
      "title": "You Can't Take It With You",
      "originalAuthor": "George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart",
      "note": "Kaufman & Hart adapted for the German stage; produced at the Kammerspiele of the Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna."
    },
    {
      "title": "Majestät Privat (Le Roi)",
      "originalAuthor": "Robert de Flers & Gaston Arman de Caillavet",
      "note": "Comedy by Flers & Caillavet reworked as a musical with music by Ralph Benatzky; premiered at the Theater an der Wien, Christmas 1937 — about 80 performances."
    },
    {
      "title": "Three Minute Murder",
      "note": "German-language adaptation staged in Prague."
    },
    {
      "title": "Fusillé à l'Aube",
      "originalAuthor": "Maurice Dekobra",
      "note": "Adaptation of the Maurice Dekobra play; prohibited in Germany by the censors."
    },
    {
      "title": "Yes, My Darling Daughter",
      "originalAuthor": "Mark Reed",
      "note": "German-language adaptation prepared for production in Switzerland."
    },
    {
      "title": "Eine reizende Familie (Kiss and Tell)",
      "originalAuthor": "F. Hugh Herbert",
      "note": "Postwar German translation and adaptation of F. Hugh Herbert's comedy, published in Berlin by OMGUS in 1946."
    },
    {
      "title": "Ja, mein Liebling",
      "originalAuthor": "Mark Reed",
      "note": "1947 radio adaptation of Mark Reed's play for Radio Stuttgart (Süddeutscher Rundfunk); translation and script by Hellmer, direction by Cläre Schimmel."
    },
    {
      "title": "Der Brotverdiener (The Breadwinner)",
      "originalAuthor": "W. Somerset Maugham",
      "note": "Directed the German-language production (trans. Mimi Zoff), 23 May 1931; cast included the young Marianne Hoppe and Günther Lüders."
    },
    {
      "title": "Eine Frau mit sich allein",
      "originalAuthor": "Desider Szomory (adapted by Curt Corrinth)",
      "note": "World premiere (Uraufführung) at the Altes Theater, Leipzig, 13 February 1932; direction by Kurt Hellmer."
    }
  ]
}