Richard the Lion Leg
Richard Löwenbein (born June 29, 1894 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † around September 5, 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp , Generalgouvernement Poland ) was an Austrian film director , screenwriter and film architect with intensive activity in Germany .
Life
Löwenbein came to Berlin at a young age and began his career there at the age of 19 at the production company PAGU. Only a few weeks after the outbreak of World War I he was allowed to direct the film It was in Schöneberg ... for the first time . The lightweight comedy and comedy became his specialty. Especially in his early years he often worked with Ernst Matray .
In the middle of the war Löwenbein was drafted, but was able to direct two films for the Austro-German production company Sascha-Messter during his home leave in Vienna in 1917. In the last year of the war, 1918, Löwenbein returned to Berlin and continued his directorial career with the grotesque Ticky-Tacky I (again with Matray). In 1924, the sensational and grotesque story Theodor Huber's miraculous stories came about for the last time in cooperation with Matray.
Despite several forays into the dramatic subject ( Der Totenklaus, The Tsarin's Diadem, The Lightship ), Löwenbein's specialty remained the lightweight comedy. None of his productions are of film historical importance. However, he achieved box office successes with audience favorites such as Harry Liedtke ( Um Recht und Ehre ), Curt Bois ( The young man from clothing ), Maly Delschaft ( The little one and her cavalier ), Grete Mosheim ( Higher Daughters ) and the French Gina Manès ( Fate of Girls ) . He landed a particular success in 1928 with the film farce The Great Comteess . Dina Gralla and Werner Fuetterer were seen in the leading roles . Born in Vienna, he returned to his old home in 1929 and shot The Thief in a Coupée, a late-night silent film comedy starring the German star Ossi Oswalda . Löwenbein ended his career as a feature film director in Paris at the beginning of 1930 with his first sound film, the German version of a French marriage story ( La tendresse ).
After two short film productions for the triangle film ( Rosmarin im Glück, string quartet ) Richard Löwenbein disappeared from the public eye. The Jewish director was no longer allowed to work in Germany under Hitler and fled to France . There it fell into German hands after the country was occupied by the Wehrmacht . On September 2, 1943 Löwenbein was deported from the Paris- Drancy loading station to Auschwitz, where he was presumably murdered shortly after his arrival (around September 5).
Filmography (selection)
Directed unless otherwise stated
- 1914: It was in Schöneberg ...
- 1914: The heiress
- 1914: The management gets engaged (also script)
- 1915: The Bad Boys (also screenplay)
- 1915: The Jacksonville Goldfields (short film)
- 1915: Marionettes (also co-script)
- 1917: Theft (short film)
- 1917: When love comes down to the dog (also screenplay)
- 1918: Ticky-Tacky I (also screenplay)
- 1919: love of artists
- 1920: Princess Tatjana (only buildings)
- 1920: Pickpockets (buildings only)
- 1920: Barelli siblings
- 1921: The Amazon
- 1921: The Golden Net (screenplay only)
- 1921: The Dead Claw
- 1921: The Asphalt Rose
- 1922: The Tsarina's Diadem (also screenplay)
- 1922: two worlds
- 1922: The lightship (also script)
- 1924: The whimsical stories of Theodor Huber
- 1925: About justice and honor
- 1926: The little girl and her gentleman
- 1926: The young man from clothing
- 1927: Stolzenfels on the Rhine
- 1927: Higher Daughters
- 1928: the fates of girls
- 1928: The great Countess
- 1929: Lost youth
- 1929: The thief in the sleeping coupée
- 1929: Through the world without money
- 1930: tenderness
- 1932: Rosemary in luck (short film)
- 1932: string quartet (short film)
literature
- 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. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 322.
Web links
- Richard Löwenbein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Richard Löwenbein at The German Early Cinema Database
- Richard Löwenbein at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lion's Leg, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian film director, screenwriter and film architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | around September 5, 1943 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp , Generalgouvernement Poland |