Ladislaus Vajda
Ladislaus Vajda, actually László Vajda ( born August 19, 1877 in Eger, Austria - Hungary, † March 10, 1933 in Berlin, German Empire ) was a Hungarian writer, theater director and playwright.
Life
Vajda began as a provincial actor, and then worked as a journalist in Budapest for Tolnai Világlapja and Színházi Élet. From 1908 he worked as a director at the Hungarian Theatre, 1913 he was the principal director, Artistic Director in 1920. He wrote several plays, 1916 in screenplays, including for Sándor Korda. 1919, the time of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Vajda was a member of the film policy -determining film Council. After the abolition of the Soviet Republic in 1922, he emigrated from Hungary to Vienna, where he worked for several productions of Sascha movie wrote the screenplays to 1924. On most of these films had his compatriot Mihály Kertész as a director and Gustav Ucicky with as a cameraman.
Then Vajda went to Berlin, where he was from 1927 to 1932 involved in all screenplays for the films by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. The Love of Jeanne Ney, Pandora's Box and The Threepenny Opera originated by literary sources. In the early 1930s created the Western Front in 1918 and camaraderie Vajda wrote scripts against hostility, war and international understanding. In addition to the screenplays for films of Pabst he also provided many templates for entertainment films.
His son László Vajda was also active in the film industry as a screenwriter and film director under the name Ladislao Vajda.