Leo Mittler

Leo Mittler (born December 18, 1893 in Vienna , † May 16, 1958 in Berlin ) was an Austrian theater and film director and screenwriter .

Life

He studied at the Vienna Academy for Music and Performing Arts and then worked as an actor at theaters in Germany and Austria, from 1910 he took over theater directing. He worked in Berlin at the Volksbühne and the Deutsches Theater .

From 1926 Leo Mittler also worked as a film director. His most important contribution was the socially critical film Jenseits der Strasse , made by Prometheus Film in 1929 , which is considered a major work in proletarian film . In 1930 Mittler went to Paris and worked as a director for Paramount . He later emigrated to the USA via England, where he worked as a screenwriter from 1939 to 1948. Then he tried again to work in German and Austrian theaters. In addition to his productions, he also created the German-language versions of a number of theater plays, including works by William Inges . Before his death in West Berlin , he also worked for West German television.

After Liesl Frank's first husband Bruno Frank died in 1945 , she married Leo Mittler in 1948, with whom she lived in New York and from the 1950s in Hamburg. After the marriage, Liesl or Elisabeth Frank took the family name Frank-Mittler.

Filmography

1926: At home, there’s a reunion! 1928: Serenissimus and the Last Virgin 1929: Beyond the Street 1930: The King of Paris 1930: There is a woman who never forgets you 1931: The concert 1931: tropical nights 1931: Every woman has something 1931: La Incorregible 1931: Sunday of Life

1931: The Nights of Port Said ( Les Nuits de Port Said ) 1931: The leap into nowhere 1931: Reckless youth 1932: Une nuit à l'hôtel 1933: Amour et publicité 1933: La Voix sans visage 1935: Honeymoon for Three 1936: Cheer Up 1936: The last waltz

literature

• Sascha Kirchner: The citizen as an artist. Bruno Frank (1887–1945) - life and work . Düsseldorf 2009, page 12.
• Gertraude Wilhelm:  Mittler, Leo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 588 f. ( Digitized version ).
• 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. P. 348 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Web links

• Leo Mittler in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ #Kirchner 2009 , page 12.