Claudius Veltée
Claudius Veltée (* 1866 or 1867; † July 13, 1918, presumably in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian theater operator, cinema pioneer, film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Live and act
Veltée, son of the Panoptikum operator Louis Veltée (approx. 1830 - 1897), began his professional career in his father's show business. At the age of about 30 he founded his own establishment Veltées Panoptikum in Vienna's Kohlmarkt 9 in 1896. With the advent of cinematography, Veltée also began to be interested in working in the film laboratory. In 1908 he is said to have participated in Austria's first official feature film, From Step to Step , but the existence of such a film is disputed. When his establishment had to close in 1913, Veltée had recently shown numerous films there.
A few years earlier, together with his sister Luise Kolm , her husband Anton Kolm and her second husband Jakob Fleck, he was involved in founding the first major Austrian film production company, the Austro-Hungarian Cinema Industry, from which the Viennese art film industry was to emerge in 1910 . As her co-director and co-partner, Veltée was involved in numerous key productions of early Austro-Hungarian films. In at least three feature films from 1911, he was verifiably directing the three previously mentioned and was also involved in the script.
Veltée, bearer of the Ottoman Medschidje order , died unexpectedly in the late phase of the First World War, presumably in Vienna. He was only 51 years old.
Filmography
as co-director and screenwriter
- 1911: Hoffmann's stories
- 1911: The lucky doll
- 1912: trilby
Web links
- Claudius Veltée in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Claudius Veltée at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Short obituary in the Neue Kino-Rundschau of July 20, 1918, page 81
- ↑ Veltées Panoptikum on kinthetop.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Veltée, Claudius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian theater operator, cinema pioneer, film director, film producer and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1866 or 1867 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1918 |
| Place of death | uncertain: Vienna , Austria-Hungary |