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Karl Hans Leiter (born February 9, 1890 in Vienna ; † August 23, 1957 there ) was an Austrian film director , screenwriter , film dramaturge and actor .

Live and act

Karl Leiter was the son of a dentist. After attending grammar school, he attended an acting school and worked on the stages of his hometown Vienna from 1909 to 1922 (including the theater in der Josefstadt ). As early as 1913, Leiter joined silent film and was active as a director in Austrian silent film throughout the 1920s without any major response.

In 1935 the German UFA brought him to Berlin as a dramaturge and had him direct short films. The outbreak of World War II temporarily put an end to Leiter's career as a feature film director. Back in his native Vienna, Karl Leiter, who now called himself by his full name Karl Hans Leiter, was able to direct regularly from autumn 1942, beginning with the sentimental Hans Moser story Das Ferienkind . At the same time, Leiter remained active as a dramaturge for Wien-Film and Bavaria until 1945 , and was also head of the cultural department of Wien-Film in 1943/44.

After the end of the war, Leiter had to be content with creating scripts for the most part; only immediately before his death in the summer of 1957 was he brought back behind the camera after many years of abstinence from directing an episode of the film Wiener Luft . Karl Hans Leiter did not live to see the performance of this film, the film , which was sold in Germany as Men Are Not Angels , only came to Austrian cinemas ten months after Leiter's death.

Filmography

• 1920: Queen Draga (actor)
• 1920: The Broken Heart (Director, Screenplay)
• 1921: The express marriage (actor)
• 1922: The Three Cigars (Director)
• 1922: Längs Himmelfahrt (director, screenplay, actor)
• 1922: Doomsday (director)
• 1923: Charlie, the universal genius (actor)
• 1923: Tutankhamen (actor)
• 1923: Hellhound (director)
• 1926: His Highness the Dancer (director)
• 1926: Pratermizzi (co-director)
• 1928: Kaiserjäger (actor)
• 1929: The Lady on the Banknote (Director)
• 1929: The Missing Woman (Director)
• 1929: Father Radetzky (director)
• 1935: The Red Thread (short film, director)
• 1936: Attention, curve! (Short film, director, screenplay)
• 1937: Poachers (short film, director)
• 1937: Das Strummelgenie (short film, director)
• 1938: Susi and the black man (short film, director)
• 1938: stop ... my watch! (Short film, director, screenplay)
• 1939: Dismissed without notice (short film, direction, production)
• 1939: Help! Blackmailer! (Short film, direction, screenplay, production management)
• 1939: A bomb shop (short film, director, screenplay, production manager)
• 1940: A day in Schönbrunn (short documentary, director)
• 1941: Around Vienna (short documentary, direction, screenplay, production management)
• 1942: Das Ferienkind (director, co-screenplay)
• 1944: I ask for power of attorney (director)
• 1949: Love Trial (Director)
• 1952: Miss Casanova (screenplay)
• 1954: Imperial maneuvers (co-script)
• 1954: Maxie (co-script)
• 1955: Heimatland (actor)
• 1956: Rosemarie comes from Wild West (co-script)
• 1956: Kaiserball (co-script)
• 1957: The happiest day of my life (co-script)
• 1958: Men are not angels either ( Wiener Luft , director and screenplay for the episode Oh - an ocelot! )

Web links

• Karl Leiter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Karl Leiter at filmportal.de

literature

• Ludwig Gesek : Small Lexicon of Austrian Films , Vienna 1959, p. 33
• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 978.