Gottfried Reinhardt
Gottfried Reinhardt ( born March 20, 1913 in Berlin, † 18 July 1994 Los Angeles ) was an Austrian-American film producer and film director.
Life and work
The son of director and theater entrepreneur Max Reinhardt and actress Else 's home attended the French Gymnasium Berlin. After high school he became an actor and director at the Deutsches Theater, which was directed by his father. At the Deutsches Theater he staged the world premiere of a theatrical adaptation of Erich Kästner dots and Anton.
In 1932 he went to study in the U.S., where he remained after the seizure of power by the National Socialists. He was assistant director of Ernst Lubitsch in Hollywood. Soon after, he tied into a contract as a lecturer, story auditor and production assistant on the film company MGM. In these roles, he was involved in several films, including 1938 The Great Waltz ( The Great Waltz ).
Reinhardt, now an American citizen, worked from 1940 as a production manager and producer. In 1941 he produced Greta Garbo film Farewell The woman with two faces. He then served four years in the Army, where he worked on the production of films.
In 1951 he made his directorial debut with the melodrama Borrowed Happiness ( Invitation ). In 1954 Reinhardt returned to Germany, where he filmed Gerhart Hauptmann's drama Before Sunset with lead actor Hans Albers. For this he received the Audience Award at the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1956. Reinhardt's German films stylistically belong to the cultivated at this time Bildungsbürger cinema of the Adenauer era.
Writings
- The lover / memories of his son Gottfried Reinhardt Max Reinhardt, Munich: Earthscan, 1973 ISBN 3-426-05576-7