Hanns Leo Reich
Hanns Leo Reich (born July 28, 1902 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died December 27, 1959 there ) was an Austrian actor , screenwriter , journalist and writer . He wrote poems , short stories and radio plays .
Life
Reich was of Jewish descent and attended schools in Vienna and Brno . In the 1920s he was seen in various film productions in supporting roles, including in 1927 as Marinus in Fritz Lang's Metropolis . He worked as a journalist and published articles in magazines such as Arbeiterwill and in the Arbeiter-Zeitung . After years in Vienna, Brno, Brüx , Meran and Berlin , he emigrated to the USA in 1935 . There Reich worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and wrote for the magazine Austro-American Tribune . In Chicago he worked for Radio Chicago, where he founded and presented the Austrian Hour . After the Second World War , Reich returned to his homeland in the late 1940s. From 1956 he headed the regional travel agency in Graz . Hanns Leo Reich died in Vienna in 1959.
Filmography
- 1926: The fight for Berlin
- 1927: Metropolis
Fonts (selection)
- The man of the divine Lydia Lane . Criminal grotesque. Vienna: Pfeffer, around 1930
- Actors on the country road . Poetry book. Vienna: Saturn, 1934
- Celebrating the homeland: poems . Vienna: Ergon, 1947
- Kramuri: Fictitious and experienced . Narrative. Vienna: Gerlach & Wiedling, 1950
- This is my Vienna: Notes of a longing . Chicago: Trans-Ocean Publishers, 1953
- All about South America: cheerful, contemplative notes from my diary . Chicago: Trans-Ocean Publ., 1956
literature
- Rudolf Ulrich: Hanns Leo Reich . In: Austrians in Hollywood . 2nd, revised edition. Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, 2004, ISBN 978-3-901932-29-8 , pp. 391 f .
- Reich, Hanns (Hans) Leo . In: Austrian National Library (Ed.): Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin, 18th to 20th century . KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-11-094900-1 , p. 1102 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hanns Leo Reich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Hanns Leo Reich in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Hanns Leo Reich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reich, Hanns Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor, screenwriter, journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1959 |
| Place of death | Vienna |