Wolfgang Geiger

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Wolfgang Geiger (born January 17, 1875 in Vienna , died after 1931) was an Austrian actor , dramaturge , screenwriter and director for German silent films .

Live and act

At the theater

Geiger began working as an actor at age 18 and was initially, season 1893/94, at the City Theater Salzburg been obliged From 1894 he worked at the Theater in der Josefstadt his hometown of Vienna, by the way (in the summer months from 1894 to 1900, when the great Viennese Geiger also performed at the Bad Ischl court theater . When Josef Jarno , head of the Josefstädter Theater, also took over the Viennese comedy theater, Geiger followed him there and held the position of secretary and deputy director. Finally, just before the First World War , Geiger was promoted to deputy director of the Josefstadt Theater.

In war

Wolfgang Geiger was drafted during the war and initially served on the Western Front for the German Empire . When he was recalled, Geiger was doing his remaining service in the War Ministry in Munich.

With the film

Geiger had already made his first contacts with film during his theatrical days and in 1912 he served Max Reinhardt as an assistant director in his earlier production of Das Mirakel . Finally Wolfgang Geiger finally switched to film and worked first (before 1914) as an author for the Vienna branch of the French company Éclair and then as a film advisor for the Viennese journal Kinematographische Rundschau . At the end of the war in 1918, Geiger began writing screenplays in Germany. Right at the end of 1918, when he made his debut as an author, he collaborated with the later famous film director Fritz Lang on an unimportant comedy . Only a few years later, Wolfgang Geiger largely stopped his film activity.

As a writer

Wolfgang Geiger has written a number of stage works, including:

  • Der Märchenhans (a fairy tale game)
  • Full moon (a comedy)
  • Love in Greece (an operetta)
  • The room waiter (a swank)

Filmography

  • 1919: The Marriage of Mrs. Mary (screenwriter)
  • 1919: The Island of the Happy (screenwriter)
  • 1919: Wolkenbau and Flimmerstern (screenwriter and co-director)
  • 1919: The Eternal Riddle (screenwriter)
  • 1920: The eyes of the mask (screenwriter)
  • 1920: The Thirteen of Steel (screenwriter)
  • 1920: The head of Juarez. A furioso in 5 acts and a prelude (screenwriter)
  • 1921: Marizza, known as the Smuggler's Madonna (template for the script)
  • 1923: Demon Circus (screenwriter)
  • 1926: Fräulein Josette - my wife (dramaturgy)
  • 1926: Parquet armchair 47 (director's advisor)
  • 1931: You Are My Whole World (The Song of Nations) (Screenwriter)
  • 1931: La chanson des nations (screenwriter)

literature

  • Hans Richter (ed.): Filmstern 1922 . Hans Hermann Richter Verlag, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1921/22, p. 30

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