Biography

Walter Supper was born on April 8, 1887 in Hamm, Germany. He was a writer and production manager, known for Der Zigeunerbaron (1962), The Gypsy Baron (1935) and Rosen aus dem Süden (1926). He died on March 3, 1943 in Berlin, Germany.

Because Walter Supper was married with a Jew and he refused to dissolve the marriage he was forbidden to work.

After World War I he first worked as an author, two years later he entered the film business and he wrote the screenplay for several movies.

The screenwriter Walter Supper finished an education as a singer and lawyer.

He and his wife did not see another way out than to commit suicide. Thereby they share this fate with other actors like Joachim Gottschalk and his wife (they committed suicide in 1941) as well as the actor Paul Otto and his wife actress Charlotte Kindler (they committed suicide in 1943).

Besides his activity as a screenwriter he also appeared as an actor in front of the camera for "Die Kwannon von Okadera" (1920) and "Volldampf voraus!" (1934) and he realised the movie "Der Choral von Leuthen" (1933) as a director.