Hermann Leitner

Hermann Leitner ( born September 3, 1927 in Salzburg) is an Austrian film and television director, who also works as an editor and writer.

Life and work

Leitner grew to April 1946 in his hometown of Salzburg, before he moved to the end of the same month in Vienna. There he made ​​initial contacts with the moribund film industry. Leitner quickly found employment with the Willi Forst movie production and first served the working for Willi Forst German director Hans Wolff at its restaging The Councilor Geiger in 1947 as assistant director. Right after that Leitner was under Wolff's top line also at the intersection to Forst involved shortly before the war ended in Prague wacky, color and operetta, first performed in 1949 film Viennese lasses.

Since 1949, Leitner worked regularly as an editor and assistant director, including for the directors EW Emo, Ernst and Hans Marischka Quest on such films as Charley's aunt or girlhood a queen. In 1956 he himself led Director; There were films like Liane, the white slave (1957 ), with which he tried to the success of Eduard von Borsodys in the previous year wacky jungle strip Liane to connect the girl out of the forest, or holidays Immenhof, the time last product of the extremely popular and funds promising " Immenhof " movie series with Heidi Brühl. After a series of last quite pompous and embarrassing melodrama Leitner finished in 1962 his all in all highly unspectacular movie activity. He served immediately afterwards (1963 ) Otto Preminger, among others in eventually resulting in Vienna Hollywood production The cardinal one last time as an assistant director and turned to the television.

Mid-1960s, he became a regular director at Gyula Trebitschs production company Studio Hamburg. From then led Leitner directed numerous Trebitsch television series but also productions of other companies, including police radio calls (52 episodes, 1966-1970 ), Hamburg transit (26 episodes, 1970, 1974), The Fall of next door and love motif. Particularly well known were the series The courier of the empress ( 26 episodes, 1970-1971, with Klaus Jürgen Wussow ) and The Waldbauernbub (26 episodes, 1983, by Peter Roseggerhaus ). His last work was the eleven-part NDF production " Katrin is the best". In the meantime Trebitsch 1975 had him for the direction of which premiered in May 1978 animated film " Wilhelm Busch - The Animated Film Parade: Max and Moritz and other pranks " ( rotation period 1 March 1975 to October 1, 1977 Studio Hamburg ) the last time on movie retrieved.

At the age of 70 years, Leitner, who had until 1968, then lived in Munich and in Vienna again pulled into private life to Kitzbühel, where he had settled in December 1975.

Filmography (selection)

Honor

In 1982, Leitner was awarded the Golden Gong for his Heinz Riihmann - Rehearsal - portrait.