Ladislaus Vajda

Ladislaus Vajda , actually László Vajda , (born August 19, 1877 in Eger , Hungary , † March 10, 1933 in Berlin ) was a Hungarian screenwriter , theater director and dramaturge .

Life

László Vajda started out as a provincial actor and then worked as a journalist in Budapest for Tolnai Világlapja and Színházi Élet. From 1908 he worked as a director at the Hungarian Theater , in 1913 he became the main director and in 1920 artistic director. He wrote a number of plays, and from 1916 also screenplays, including for Sándor Korda . In 1919, at the time of the Hungarian Soviet Republic , Vajda was a member of the Film Council, which determines film policy. In 1922 he emigrated to Vienna , where he wrote the scripts for several productions of Sascha-Film until 1924 . Most of these films worked with his compatriot Mihály Kertész as a director and Gustav Ucicky as a cameraman.

Vajda then went to Berlin, where he was involved in all the scripts for Georg Wilhelm Pabst's films from 1927 to 1932 . The Love of Jeanne Ney , Pandora's Box and The Three Groschen Opera were based on literary models. Vajda wrote scripts against enmity, war and for international understanding in the Western Front 1918 and Comradeship , which emerged in the early 1930s . In addition to the scripts for films by Pabst, he also provided many templates for entertainment films .

His son László Vajda also worked in the film business as a screenwriter and film director under the name Ladislao Vajda .

Filmography

1916: A Falu rossza 1918: A Kis lord 1919: Yamata 1919: Liliom 1920: A 111-es 1922: Samson and Delilah 1922: Sodom and Gomorrah 1923: The avalanche 1924: Harun al Raschid 1924: The slave queen 1926: Honey, cash in 1927: The Czardas Princess 1927: Venus in tails 1927: The dashing Archduke 1927: The love of Jeanne Ney 1928: Mariett is dancing today 1928: The Lady in Black 1928: going astray 1928: slide

1928: immorality 1929: Her Majesty's Lieutenant 1929: Pandora's box 1929: The woman you long for 1929: Schönbrunn's favorite 1929: The white hell of Piz Palü 1929: The country without women 1930: Police spy 77 1930: love and champagne 1930: There is a woman who never forgets you 1930: Western Front 1918 1930: just you 1930: two ties 1931: The Threepenny Opera 1931: The love express 1931: comradeship 1932: The mistress of Atlantis

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

Web links

• Ladislaus Vajda in the Internet Movie Database (English)