Leopold Lindtberg

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Grave of Leopold Lindtberg, Enzenbühl cemetery, Zurich

Leopold Lindtberg ; actually Leopold Lemberger , according to other sources Lamberger (born June 1, 1902 in Vienna ; † April 18, 1984 in Sils Maria ) was one of the most important Swiss theater and film directors .

Life

Leopold Lindtberg was born as the son of the Jewish businessman Heinrich Lemberger and his wife Adele nee. Pollak born in Vienna. At the university in his hometown, he studied German , theater studies and art history , while taking acting lessons at the Vienna Conservatory . In 1922 he made his debut as an actor at the Berlin “dramatic theater”. In 1926 he directed for the first time ( Theater Bielefeld ) and then worked in Berlin with Erwin Piscator and at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus with Walter Bruno Iltz . He made his first feature film in 1932: When two people quarrel .

After the National Socialists came to power , he emigrated via Paris , Warsaw and Tel Aviv in 1933 to Switzerland, where he was naturalized in 1951. From 1933 to 1948 he was director at the Schauspielhaus Zurich , then a permanent guest director and honorary member of the Vienna Burgtheater , 1963/64 professor at the Reinhardt seminar, 1963 to 1965 director of the film school at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna , 1965 to 1968 director of the Schauspielhaus Zurich.

In 1935 , Lazar Wechsler, also from Austria , hired him as a director for his newly founded Praesens-Film - one of the first, the largest and only significant Swiss film production company for the next 20 years. Lindtberg's first production was Jä-soo! (1935). With the film adaptation of the novella Die abused Liebesbriefe (1940) by Gottfried Keller , he won the Coppa Mussolini at the Venice International Film Festival in 1940 . He has directed several Swiss films that have become classics, including Füsilier Wipf (1938), Wachtmeister Studer (1939), Landammann Stauffacher (1941) and Marie-Louise (1944). In his most important film, The Last Chance , he took a critical look at Swiss refugee policy.

Lindtberg was married to the pianist Valeska Hirsch (1910–2004) since 1941. His two daughters are named Susanne (* 1941) and Bettina Myriam (* March 21, 1946 Zurich, † July 2, 2002 ibid). The latter also became an actress.

His grave is in the Enzenbühl cemetery (FG 81140) in Zurich.

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SURNAME Lindtberg, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1984
Place of death Sils Maria