Hans Otto Löwenstein
Hans Otto Löwenstein (born October 11, 1881 in Priwoz , Oderfurt , Austria-Hungary , † May 8, 1931 in Vienna ) was an Austrian film director and producer .
Live and act
In 1913, as a director, Hans Otto Löwenstein experimentally implemented the patented concept by JH Groß and a Mr. Brüll, which provided for a combination of film and theater performances, in the Adria exhibition in Vienna's Prater . The film "King Menelaus in the cinema" was supplemented with actors on the stage in front of the screen, who included the audience. The idea was picked up several times in the history of film, but never got established.
In 1914 Löwenstein took over the management of the war welfare office of the Austro-Hungarian Army . This was the central office for the ten field cinemas established in August 1914 .
Together with Leo Fuchs, he founded Astoria-Film in 1918 , which around 1920 was one of the leading producers of Austrian silent films and the only relevant producer of cartoons in the country.
In 1925 Löwenstein directed the film “Leibfiaker Bratfisch” about the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf in Mayerling , which reproduced the memories of his fiakers. The director Hans Otto Löwenstein used many scenes from his Mayerling film, which was banned in 1919. With “Kaiser Karl” (1921) another film about the Habsburgs came from him.
With the Ottoton system, Hans Otto Löwenstein invented the sound film process with which he directed the first Austrian sound film in 1929 : "Stories from Styria" .
Filmography
- 1913: King Menelaus in the cinema
- 1916: The lucky tailor
- 1917: The Secret of the Forest (together with Joseph Delmont )
- 1920: The Duke of Reichstadt
- 1920: Queen Draga
- 1921: Burning Land
- 1921: Hotel Tartarus
- 1921: Emperor Karl
- 1921: The novel by Countess Ruth
- 1921: The Emperor's actress
- 1921: The key to power
- 1921: The dead hand
- 1922: Kings of Humor (together with MA Heger, Walter Hanns Zeller)
- 1922: The Ragman of Paris
- 1922: The game is over
- 1922: The stranger from Russia
- 1923: Heaven full of violins (together with Julius Herzka )
- 1923: Landru , the bluebeard of Paris
- 1923: people, people san ma all ...! (in cooperation with Julius Herzka)
- 1923: The Vienna city in pictures and songs (together with Julius Herzka)
- 1924: Modern marriages
- 1924: Paragraph 144 (together with Georg Jacoby )
- 1925: Leibfiaker Bratfisch
- 1925: Colonel Redl with Robert Valberg in the leading role
- 1925: Two vagabonds in the Prater
- 1926: The Feldherrnhügel (together with Erich Schönfelder )
- 1927: The life of Beethoven
- 1927: The confession of the field curate
- 1927: Madame makes an affair
- 1928: Service man No. 13
- 1928: Girls at risk
- 1928: happiness in women
- 1928: In the hotel "Zur sweet Nachtigall"
- 1928: Kaiserjäger
- 1928: lace panties and cobbler's bad luck
- 1928: The dream of an Austrian reservist
- 1929: Franz Lehár
- 1929: The Monte Christo of Prague
- 1929: Who does my wife belong to?
- 1929: Stories from Styria
- 1930: Stormy the Night (together with Curt Blachnitzky )
Web links
- Eva Offenthaler: A representative of the early Austrian film: Hans Otto Löwenstein ( ÖBL -Biography of the Month May 2011)
- Hans Otto Löwenstein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filmbote, No. 2, 1918, p. 8. In: Sylvia Winkelmeyer: The Austrian cartoon in the silent film era. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2004, p. 126
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Löwenstein, Hans Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian film director and producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Priwoz , Oderfurt , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1931 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |