Hermann Leitner

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Hermann Leitner (born September 3, 1927 in Salzburg ; † February 22, 2013 in Kitzbühel ) was an Austrian film and television director who also worked as a film editor and screenwriter .

Live and act

Leitner grew up in his home town of Salzburg until April 1946, before moving to Vienna at the end of the same month. There he made his first contacts with the ailing film industry. Leitner quickly found employment in Willi Forst film production and served the German director Hans Wolff , who worked for Willi Forst , for the first time as assistant director in his production of Der Hofrat Geiger in 1947. Immediately afterwards Leitner was also involved in the editing of Forst 's color and operetta film Wiener Mädeln , which premiered in 1949 shortly before the end of the war in Prague , under Wolff's direction .

Since 1949 Leitner has worked regularly as a film editor and assistant director, u. a. for the directors EW Emo , Ernst Marischka and Hans Quest in films such as Charley's Aunt or a Queen's Girl Years . From 1956 he directed himself; Films were made such as Liane, the white slave (1957), with which he tried to connect the jungle strip Liane, the girl from the jungle , to the success of Eduard von Borsody's wacky jungle strip last year , or Ferien auf Immenhof , the last product of the extremely popular and for the time being big box office “Immenhof” film series with Heidi Brühl . After a series of recently rather bombastic and embarrassing melodramas, Leitner ended his all in all extremely unspectacular film activity in 1962. Immediately afterwards (1963) he served at Otto Premingers a . a. Hollywood production Der Kardinal, made in Vienna, one last time as assistant director and finally turned to television.

In the mid-1960s he became a regular director at Gyula Trebitsch's production company Studio Hamburg . From then on Leitner directed numerous Trebitsch television series as well as productions by other companies, including Polizeifunk ruft (52 episodes, 1966-1970), Hamburg Transit (26 episodes, 1970, 1974), The case of next door and motif love . The series Der Kurier der Kaiserin (26 episodes, 1970–1971, with Klausjürgen Wussow ) and Waldheimat (26 episodes, 1983, based on Peter Rosegger ) became particularly well known . His last work was the 11-part NDF production "Katrin is the best". In the meantime, Trebitsch had him for the last time in 1975 for the direction of the animated film " Wilhelm Busch - The Animated Film Parade: Max and Moritz and Other Pranks ", which premiered in May 1978 (shooting from March 1, 1975 to October 1, 1977 in Studio Hamburg) brought back to the movie.

At the age of 70, Leitner, who had lived in Munich until 1968 and then again in Vienna, retired to Kitzbühel , where he had settled in December 1975.

Leitner died on February 22, 2013 in Kitzbühel.

Filmography (selection)

Honor

In 1982 Leitner received the Golden Gong for his Heinz Rühmann portrait trial portrait .

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personal data
SURNAME Leitner, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director and film editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2013
Place of death Kitzbühel