Elevator operator

An elevator operator is a waiter, which is specifically responsible for the elevator, that is it for hotel guests served or is to advise you. The general term is " elevator operator " or " elevator operator ".

In the flier language Liftboy jokingly referred to a pilot who settles with his machine parachutists at the desired location.

Novel and film

The elevator operator is a typical, frequently encountered in novels and films figure, for example in

• Elevator operator, novel by Hubert Flattinger
• Hotel Savoy, novel by Joseph Roth
• Confessions of Felix Krull, 's unfinished novel by Thomas Mann: the main character temporarily worked as a lift boy
• The Man Who Disappeared, unfinished novel by Franz Kafka: the protagonist Karl Rossmann works as an elevator boy

• Five million are looking for an heir ( German Comedy Film with Heinz Rühmann, 1938)
• The elevator operator from the Palace Hotel (film by Pierre Granier - Deferre, 1962)
• Hui Buh - The Castle Ghost ( German comedy film with a Liftboygeist, 2006)