Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl (born May 10, 1899 in Vienna ; † August 29, 1978 there ) was an Austrian film director .
Life
Hartl began his film career in 1918 as Fritz Freisler's assistant (with Der Mandarin ) and in the following year moved to the same position at the side of the Hungarian director Alexander Korda (e.g. 1922 with Samson and Delila ). In the 1920s he went to Berlin with Korda and was its production manager there until the mid-1920s. In 1926 he returned to Vienna and became production manager for Gustav Ucicky .
Since 1930 he worked at UFA and together with Luis Trenker shot Berge in Flammen (1931). He then tried other genres, such as the comedy Die Gräfin von Monte Christo (1932) with Brigitte Helm and Gustaf Gründgens and in the same year with the aviator film FP1 does not answer with Hans Albers , Peter Lorre , Paul Hartmann and Sybille Schmitz in the Leading roles. The song Flieger, greet me the sun ... comes from this film and became a hit again in the early 1980s thanks to the band Extrabreit . His lavish science fiction film Gold from 1934 is one of the best German films of its kind. Karl Hartl was also the director of the hit detective comedy The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937). After Austria's annexation in 1938, Hartl became the production manager at Wien-Film , in which UFA combined its Austrian activities, and only rarely appeared with his own film work.
After 1945 he turned again. On July 3, 1947, he founded the Neue Wiener Filmproduktionsgesellschaft in Salzburg with the support of Creditanstalt . One of his most acclaimed films was The Angel with the Trumpet (1949), which united many Austrian stars, such as Paula Wessely , Attila and Paul Hörbiger , Oskar Werner , Maria Schell .
Karl Hartl was married to the actress Marte Harell . He rests in an honorary grave in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 65, number 2) in Vienna, next to his wife.
Filmography (selection)
script
- 1930: the immortal scoundrel
Director
- 1930: A boys song from Heidelberg
- 1931: Mountains on fire
- 1932: The Countess of Monte Christo
- 1932: The Prince of Arcadia
- 1932: FP1 does not respond
- 1933: Your Highness, the saleswoman
- 1934: gold
- 1934: This is how a love ended
- 1935: Gypsy baron
- 1936: The Emperor's candlesticks
- 1937: Ride to freedom
- 1937: The man who was Sherlock Holmes
- 1938: Guest performance in paradise
- 1942: Who the gods love
- 1949: The angel with the trumpet
- 1950: kidnapping into happiness
- 1951: The silent mouth
- 1952: House of Life
- 1953: Everything for dad
- 1953: War of love according to notes
- 1954: way into the past
- 1955: Mozart (give me your hand, my life)
- 1956: red is love
- 1960: Wilhelm Tell (castles in flames) (only artistic overhead line)
- 1962: Flying Clipper - dream trip under white sails (only artist. Design, editing, commentary)
Awards
Web links
- Karl Hartl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Karl Hartl at filmportal.de
- Entry on Karl Hartl in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartl, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1978 |
| Place of death | Vienna |