Adolf Lantz

Adolf Lantz (born November 30, 1882 in Vienna , † August 19, 1949 in London ) was an Austrian theater director, director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Lantz worked as a theater director before the First World War . The actors Friedrich Kayßler and Paul Otto performed at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Berlin, which he directed between 1910 and 1914 . His production of Goethe's Egmont was a great success. In later years, Adolf Lantz also directed the Royal Kroll Opera Theater and the Theater am Zoo (both also in Berlin). He was also involved in directing the cabaret 'Die Rakete'. The theater artists he supports include Alfred Abel , Helene Fehdmer and Reinhold Schünzel .

At the beginning of the First World War he began to work for the silent film pioneer Max Mack and wrote an adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's Der Katzensteg for him . In the 1920s, Lantz was a busy screenwriter who could handle both cheerful and serious subjects.

After the National Socialists came to power, Lantz went to Austria, where he was able to sell his last screenplay with Sonnenstrahl in 1933. After the annexation of Austria he emigrated to Paris , where he did the editing for Kurt Bernhardt's Carrefour in 1938 . Eventually he went to the UK. There he worked primarily as a translator for English authors (Philipp Gibbs, Victor Canning ). From October 1948 to April 1949 he stayed in the United States to visit his son Robert Lantz (1914-2007), a journalist, occasional producer, and acting and literary agent. Then Adolf Lantz returned to London. There he died four months later.

Filmography

as a screenwriter 1915: The eighth commandment 1915: return! Forgive everything! 1915: The Katzensteg 1919: Matrimonium Sacrum 1919: The Struggle for Marriage (2 parts) 1919: Free love 1921: The big and the small world 1921: Ilona 1921: The heiress of Tordis 1922: Tabea, get up! 1923: A glass of water 1923: tragedy of love 1923: Spring awakening 1924: On dangerous tracks 1924: The secret agent 1924: rags and silk 1924: man against man 1925: The general manager 1925: Elegant pack 1925: The young lady from office 1925: The Morale of the Alley 1925: my wife's dancer 1926: braid and sword 1926: The golden butterfly

1926: The divorced woman 1926: Public Prosecutor Jordan 1926: The laughing husband 1926: The queen of the world bath 1926: Dagfin 1926: Madame does not want children 1926: Single daughters 1927: The Prince's Child 1927: The ghost train 1927: The happy vineyard 1928: going astray 1928: dirty money 1928: slide 1928: House number 17 1929: City butterfly 1929: youth tragedy 1930: Hai-Tang. The road to shame ( The Flame of Love ) 1931: Her Majesty Love 1931: The carnival fairy 1931: ... and that's the main thing !? 1931: Elisabeth of Austria 1932: Rasputin 1932: One night in paradise 1933: Sunbeam 1935: Kochaj tylko mnie 1938: Carrefour (only cut)

literature

• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 300.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Lantz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Adolf Lantz in the Internet Movie Database (English)