Sirk, Douglas (1900-1987), Cineasta alemão:Sublime Obsessão (1954);
Palavras ao Vento (1957);
Imitação da Vida (1959).
Nationality: German/American. Born: Claus Detlev Sierk in Skagen, Denmark, 26 April 1900. Education: Studied law, philosophy, and art history in Copenhagen, Munich, Jena, and Hamburg until 1922. Career: Dramaturg for Deutsches Schauspiele, Hamburg, 1921; director for Chemnitz "Kleinez Theater," 1922; artistic director, Bremen Schauspielhaus, 1923–29; director of Altes Theater, Leipzig, 1929–36; directed first film, as Detlef Sierck, for UFA, 1935; head of Leipzig drama school, 1936; left Germany, worked on scripts in Austria and France (notably Renoir's Partie de campagne, 1937); signed for Warners in Hollywood, 1939, but inactive, 1940–41; contract as writer for Columbia, 1942; director for Universal, from 1950; returned to Europe, 1959; active in theatre in Munich and Hamburg, 1960s. Died: Of cancer, in Lugano, Switzerland, 14 January 1987.
