Adolf Lantz

Adolf Lantz ( born November 30, 1882 in Vienna, † August 19 1949 in London) was an Austrian theater director, stage director and screenwriter.

Life and work

Lantz appeared before the First World War as a theater director. At he conducts 1910-1914 Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Berlin occurred, the cast includes Friedrich Kayssler and Paul Otto. His production of Goethe's Egmont was a great success. In later years, Adolf Lantz also headed the Royal Opera Theatre Kroll and the theater at the Zoo (both also from Berlin ). At the direction of the cabaret ' The Rocket ', he was also involved. Among the artists he promoted theater include Alfred Abel, Helene Fehdmer and Reinhold Schünzel.

At the beginning of the First World War, he began for the silent film pioneer Max Mack to work and wrote for him, among other things, an adaptation of Hermann Sudermann The Katzensteg. In the 20s Lantz was a busy screenwriter who dominated both serene and serious matter.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Lantz went to Austria, where he could sell his latest screenplay with sunbeam 1933. After the Anschluss, he emigrated to Paris, where he in 1938 got the cut for Kurt Bernhardt's Carrefour. Finally he went to the UK. There, he worked primarily as a translator of English authors ( Philip Gibbs, Victor Canning ). From October 1948 to April 1949 he stayed in the United States to visit his son Robert Lantz ( 1914-2007 ), a journalist, producer and actor opportunity and literary agent. Then Adolf Lantz returned to London. He died four months later.

Filmography

As Writer