Jacob Fleck
Jacob Julius Fleck ( born November 8, 1881 in Vienna, Austria - Hungary, † September 19, 1953 in Vienna, Austria ) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman.
Life
In 1910 he founded, together with Anton Kolm, his then wife, and Jacob spot later wife, Luise Kolm, and their brother Cladius Veltée the first Austrian movie industry (later Viennese art film industry) in Vienna Alsergrund. There he worked as a cameraman, but was soon worked mainly as a director and producer together with Luise Kolm.
Jacob Fleck moved in 1923 with Luise Kolm to Berlin, where the two were married in 1924 and his wife was henceforth known as Luise Fleck. There the two were then worked for Hegewald film and the UFA. In the 1920s, they were called " directed by husband and wife " known. During this time they produced 30-40 films, but returned in 1933, after Hitler came to power, to Austria because Jacob Fleck was a Jew.
In 1938, in the wake of Austria's annexation to Germany Jews are categorically excluded from the film industry, he had to earn his living as Retuschierer for a photographer. In 1938 he was first interned in a concentration camp Buchenwald and then to Dachau for 16 months. Beginning of 1940, emigrated Fleck and his wife to Shanghai. Chinese director Fei Mu turned with them co-directed the film " sons and daughters of the world." He is the only collaboration between Chinese and foreign film artists before the founding of the People's Republic of China and was premiered Theatre of Shanghai Jindu on 4 October 1941. 1947, the year of the opening of Austria's first post-war studio, the movie Belvedere founded by Emmerich Hanus and Elfi von Dassanowsky, the couple returned to Austria to plan their comeback, but this never succeeded. Jacob Fleck died in 1953, three years after his wife.