Cornelius Hintner

Cornelius Hintner (born May 30, 1875 in Bozen , † probably 1922 ) was an Austrian film director , painter and draftsman .

Life

He was the second child of Aloisia Wichtl from Bozener Erbsengasse 12.

After completing his training, Hintner worked as a painter and draftsman at an art academy in his hometown of Bolzano. As a versatile artist, he made building drawings for his hometown of Bolzano, but also paintings of women, which he often depicted in lascivious poses or exotic outfits (for example as a Spaniard or a belly dancer).

Meanwhile resident in Berlin , he received his pilot's license on September 9, 1911 as part of an examination - as the 110th person in the German Reich - for an Albatross two-decker. Around 1911 he lived in Halberstadt, where he made flight attempts with a self-made airplane. Then Hintner began to be interested in cinematography. Before the First World War he was active as a cameraman for the Pathé company , for which he is said to have made nature and landscape films. He also worked as a photographer for news. In this context he was also used as a war correspondent in the Balkan Wars (1912/13), in which the Bulgarian army was involved.

Hintner then shot the three-act sensational drama Under Palms and Eternal Ice in Egypt and on the Riviera , for which he also wrote the script. When war broke out in 1914, he returned to Austria-Hungary. Hintner's war years are currently largely impossible to reconstruct. He lived in Mödling until January 1916 , then in Vienna for five months and moved to nearby Weidlingau in June 1916 . Presumably at this time he was again active as an artist (as an "academic painter" as he called himself).

Towards the end of the war he found himself in Budapest , where he began to work as a film director. It was there that Hintner discovered Carmen Cartellieri , who was previously inexperienced as an actor and who he regularly used in his productions, even after he moved to Vienna at the end of August 1919 as a result of the short-term communist rule in Hungary. In Vienna in the early 1920s he mainly directed high mountain dramas with Cartellieri. The crime and family drama Die Würghand , staged in 1920 and premiered in 1922, was a great success. The author Ida Jenbach mostly wrote the scripts for Hintner's Austrian films. Shortly after his last two films, the productions staged for the production company Techne-Victoria-Film The Sportlady and Kill Them! , again with Carmen Cartellieri in the female lead, Hintner disappeared from the public eye. From the middle of September 1922 he can no longer be traced in Vienna. Presumably he died in the same year, but in any case before 1927. Cornelius Hintner also designed and painted the advertising posters with Carmen Cartellieri for his films.

Films as a director

• 1914: Under palm trees and eternal ice (also camera, screenplay)
• 1917: November
• 1918: Havasi szerelem
• 1918: Lili
• 1918: A bosszú
• 1918: A cigánleány
• 1918: Nebántsvirág
• 1919: A Teherán gyöngye
• 1919: Anjula, the gypsy girl
• 1920: Die Würghand (also screenplay)
• 1920: The drama in the Dolomites
• 1921: The White Death (also co-script)
• 1921: The sport lady
• 1922: kill them!

Web links

• Cornelius Hintner in the Internet Movie Database (English)