Ludwig Waldleitner

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Ludwig "Luggi" Waldleitner (born December 1, 1913 in Kirchseeon ; † January 16, 1998 in Innsbruck ) was a German film producer .

Life

Ludwig Waldleitner was born in Kirchseeon in Bavaria in 1913. His father was a railroad employee and his mother ran an inn. He grew up in a strictly Catholic environment. Contrary to the plans of his parents, who had planned for Luggi, as he was also called, to work in the family inn, Ludwig Waldleitner decided to leave his native village. At the age of 16 he attended a commercial school in Dresden .

While skiing in Obergurgl, Waldleitner met the ski racer and cameraman Gustav (Guzzi) Lantscher. Luggi's interest in cinema was aroused as a child. It is said that his future path into the film business was mapped out after his mother first went to a movie with him.

In the 1930s, forest Leitner began as a camera assistant from Guzzi Lantschner , and as a manager at the filming of Leni Riefenstahl's film Olympia . At first he played a small role in the film business and took over the management of the ski school in Obergurgl. Here he got to know Ilse Kubaschewski , known as Kuba, who, inspired by homeland films, went to the mountains to relax. During a visit to her in Berlin, she found him a job with Siegel Monopolfilm. Because he was not very interested in the rental business, he switched to film production. Luggi had a talent for this. This was also recognized by Johannes Siegel, who called Waldleitner on numerous film projects as a production assistant. In 1942 he was taken over by the newly founded Berlin-Film , where he worked as a production manager until the end of the war.

After the war he ran the Kurfilmtheater in Oberstdorf with Ilse Kubaschewski. When the lease for the Kurfilmtheater ran out, she decided to set up her own distribution facility in Munich. On April 26, 1949 she founded Gloria Filmverleih GmbH. In addition to her husband Hans Kubaschewski, her friend Luggi Waldleitner also stood by her side.

Luggi Waldleitner also supervised the dubbed versions of foreign films and worked from 1949 to 1951 as production manager for Kurt Ulrich's Berolina Film .

At the end of 1951, Waldleitner founded his own film company, Roxy-Film GmbH & Co. KG . Ilse Kubaschewski helped him get started as a freelance film producer with the film A Thousand Red Roses Bloom . The title of the film came from her pen and was very well received by the audience. The melodrama Until We Meet Again , composed in 1952 , brought Maria Schell and OW Fischer together for the first time. The film appeared in Kubaschewski Gloria-Verleih. Schell and Fischer were subsequently treated as the “dream couple” of German film. For Ludwig Waldleitner's Roxy film , however, this film was one of the few flops.

Waldleitner advanced to become one of the major film producers in German-speaking post-war cinema. In the 1960s in particular, he often worked with Italian and French partners.

Over the years, Waldleitner oriented himself to the prevailing tastes, but through numerous adaptations to literature he proved to be relatively ambitious. His film adaptations of the works of the novelist Johannes Mario Simmel were particularly successful in the 1970s. He also worked in part with representatives of the New German Cinema . So he realized Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most elaborate directorial work Lili Marleen . In addition, Waldleitner produced some films together with Ilse Kubaschewski in the 1970s, who in the meantime had sold Gloria Filmverleih, but kept her production company. For example, they worked together on the production of the film One of Us , directed by Wolfgang Petersen . The film adaptation of ETA Hoffmann's The Elixirs of the Devil emerged from another co-production .

Waldleitner also campaigned for the issues of film in general and was involved in the granting of Bavarian film funding and the participation of the Free State in the Munich Film Weeks. Large parts of his legacy as a film producer are in the German Film Museum in Frankfurt am Main. There is a Luggi-Waldleitner Prize in his honor.

His two children Michael and Prisca emerged from his marriage to Angela Schreiber in 1960.

Waldleitner lived in Munich-Obermenzing and owned a vacation home in Terracina, Italy . He was buried in the Nymphenburg cemetery in Munich (grave no. 1-1-9).

Filmography

Autobiography

  • Luggi Waldleitner, Bob Arnold (ed.): Luggi Waldleitner. Almost a life for the film , Munich, Sober, 1983.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Nüchtern: Luigi Waldleitner. Almost a life for the film . Monika Nüchtern, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-922674-28-3 , p. 21 .
  2. ↑ Monika Nüchtern: Luigi Waldleitner. Almost a life for the film . Monika Nüchtern, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-922674-28-3 , p. 14 .
  3. ↑ Michael Kamp: Glanz und Gloria. The life of the grande dame of the German film Ilse Kubaschewski 1907 to 2001. August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-944334-58-5 , p. 60 .
  4. ↑ Michael Kamp: Glanz und Gloria. The life of the grande dame of the German film Ilse Kubaschewski 1907 to 2001. August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-944334-58-5 , p. 73; 89 .
  5. ↑ Michael Kamp: Glanz und Gloria. The life of the grande dame of the German film Ilse Kubaschewski 1907 to 2001. August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-944334-58-5 , p. 104 .
  6. ↑ Michael Kamp: Glanz und Gloria. The life of the grande dame of the German film Ilse Kubaschewski 1907 to 2001. August Dreesbach Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-944334-58-5 , p. 273 .
personal data
SURNAME Waldleitner, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldleitner, Luggi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchseeon
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1998
Place of death innsbruck