August Rieger
August Rieger (born March 21, 1914 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † September 3, 1984 in Feldafing , Free State of Bavaria ) was an Austrian screenwriter , film director , production manager , actor and film producer .
life and career
Rieger attended the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the early 1930s . He then became an actor and director in the theater.
During the Second World War he directed a soldier's theater and after the war he founded the Vienna Theater of Courage with others . He began working for the film in the early 1950s. Until 1960 he worked as a co-screenwriter, co-production manager or co-director with producer Ernest Müller, in whose production company he was also an authorized signatory .
After that he was mostly responsible as a screenwriter, often using the pseudonyms Jean C. Aurive, Jean Charles Aurive, Jean Christian Aurive, Jean Ch. Aurive . His stories, which are considered less than ambitious, represent the entire spectrum of German-Austrian entertainment cinema of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Rieger was married to the actress Elisabeth Stemberger (* 1928).
Filmography (as a screenwriter)
literature
Web links
- August Rieger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- August Rieger at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rieger, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jean C. Aurive |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian film director, production manager and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd September 1984 |
| Place of death | Feldafing |