Jakob Fleck

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Jakob Julius Fleck (born November 8, 1881 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † September 19, 1953 in Vienna , Austria ) was an Austrian film director , screenwriter , film producer and cameraman .

Life

In 1910, together with Anton Kolm , his wife at the time, and Jakob Fleck's later wife, Luise Kolm , and her brother Claudius Veltée, he founded the First Austrian Cinema Industry (later: Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie ) in Alsergrund in Vienna . There he initially worked as a cameraman, but soon worked primarily as a director and producer together with Luise Kolm.

After Anton Kolm's death in 1923, Jakob Fleck moved with Luise Kolm to Berlin, where the two married in 1924 and his wife was henceforth known as Luise Fleck. There the two then worked for Hegewald-Film and UFA . In the 1920s they were known as the "directing couple". During this time they produced between 30 and 40 films, but returned to Austria in 1933, after Hitler came to power, as Jakob Fleck was Jewish .

Registration card of Jakob Fleck as a prisoner in the National Socialist concentration camp Dachau
Registration card of Jakob Fleck as a prisoner in the National Socialist Buchenwald concentration camp

When Jews were categorically excluded from the film industry in the course of the annexation of Austria to Germany in 1938 , he had to earn a living as a retoucher for a photographer. In 1938 he was first interned in the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps for a total of 16 months. In early 1940, Fleck and his wife emigrated to Shanghai . The Chinese director Fei Mu co-directed the film “Sons and Daughters of the World” with them. It is the only collaboration between Chinese and foreign film artists before the founding of the People's Republic of China and was premiered on October 4, 1941 at the Jindu Theater in Shanghai. In 1947, the year Austria's first post-war studio was opened, the Belvedere-Film founded by Emmerich Hanus and Elfi von Dassanowsky , the couple returned to Austria to plan their comeback, but they never succeeded. Jakob Fleck died in 1953, three years after his wife.

Filmography (selection)

Director

production

script

  • 1912: Two kinds of blood
  • 1917: Nobody can get along with me
  • 1918: The Scourge of Mankind
  • 1920: Eve, Sin
  • 1924: spring awakening
  • 1941: sons and daughters of the world

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 119.
  • Kay Less: 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 171 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Fleck, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleck, Jakob Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1953
Place of death Vienna , Austria