Wolfgang Reinhardt (producer)

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Wolfgang Reinhardt (born December 13, 1908 in Berlin , † July 28, 1979 in Rome ) was an Austrian film producer and screenwriter .

The initially illegitimate son of the theater director and director Max Reinhardt and his later wife Else Heims studied art history. After the death of his uncle Edmund, he took part in the administration of the German Theater in Berlin run by his father .

In 1934 he stayed with Max Reinhardt for the first time in the USA, where he finally settled after the " Anschluss of Austria " in 1938. In the same year he joined the film company Warner Bros. As a co-author for Charlotte and Maximilian von Mexico and executive producer for Paul Ehrlich - A Life for Research , he initially worked with director Wilhelm Dieterle , a friend of his father's.

After several film productions in America, Reinhardt returned to Europe in 1953. His subsequent, numerically manageable productions include the splendid film biography Ludwig II - the splendor and end of a king with director Helmut Käutner and the also very successful color film The Trapp Family by Wolfgang Liebeneiner .

In his last two carefully prepared productions Freud and Hitler - The Last Ten Days , he also participated as a co-screenwriter. For Freud he had won the writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre as a screenwriter. However, Reinhardt's concept did not meet with approval, so that he decided to revise the script himself. At the 1963 Academy Awards , he and Charles Kaufman received a nomination for best screenwriter, and in the same year for the WGA Award of the Writers Guild of America .

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  1. IMDb and filmportal.de state Berlin as their place of birth. Birthplace Vienna, according to Kay Less: The film's great personal dictionary , 2001.