Leontine Sagan

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Leontine Sagan (born February 13, 1889 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , as Leontine Schlesinger ; † May 19, 1974 in Pretoria , South Africa ) was an Austrian stage and film director .

Leontine Sagan by Franz Löwy
( Sport & Salon , 1918)

Life

Leontine Sagan actually wanted to become an actress , but then completed an apprenticeship as a stage director. In 1925 she nevertheless went to Frankfurt am Main as a spokesperson for the Südwestdeutscher Rundfunkdienst AG (SÜWRAG) . She also made guest appearances at Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG) in Hamburg and at Funk-Hour Berlin .

After staging a number of plays by female authors, she turned Christa Winsloe's boarding-school drama Yesterday and Today , which she had already directed as a play for Victor Barnowsky , into her first film in 1931. Girls in Uniform , with Hertha Thiele and Dorothea Wieck in the leading roles, was an extraordinary success.

Leontine Sagan shot her second film Men of Tomorrow in England for Alexander Korda's production company London Films, with Korda's brother Zoltan as co-director. Men of Tomorrow was set in the academic community of Oxford , starring Maurice Braddell and Joan Gardner . Merle Oberon played a supporting role, who was to be released as a star with this film.

Then Leontine Sagan returned to stage work. In 1948 she finally moved to South Africa , where she co-founded the National Theater Organization. In 2010, Sagan's Memoirs of Light and Shadow were published .

Filmography

Radio plays (selection)

Speaker:

literature

  • Michael Eckardt (Ed.): Leontine Sagan. Light and shadow. Actress and director on four continents. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941450-12-7 .
    for the biography therein in particular pp. 334–347.
  • Michael Eckardt: Leontine Sagan's film debut "Girls in Uniform" in the verdict of the South African press ; Acta Germanica 45 (2017), 90-104, ISSN 0065-1273.
  • 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. 434 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

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personal data
SURNAME Sagan, Leontine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlesinger, Leontine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian stage and film director and radio play speaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1974
Place of death Pretoria , South Africa