Leonid Trauberg

Leonid Sacharowitsch Trauberg (Russian Леонид Захарович Трауберг; * 4 Januarjul / January 17 1902greg in Odessa, Russian Empire, .. † November 14, 1990 in Moscow ) was a Russian-Jewish film director and screenwriter. Together with Grigori Kozintsev he created in the late 1920s a number of great masterpieces of Soviet cinema, significantly influenced by the Russian avant-garde.

Life and work

Leonid Trauberg was born the son of a journalist in Odessa, but eight-year-old moved with his family to Saint Petersburg. As a Jew, he was at the time of the visit of a high school (and thus a possible study ) refused, so he returned to Odessa. As a young man he found here his passion for the theater and for literature. After the October Revolution, he traveled back to St. Petersburg, now called Petrograd to here fully to act artistically. At that time there were a number of avant-garde theater directions loslösten from tsarist embossed Theater of Stanislavsky and new, revolutionary currents formed. Konstantin Miklaschewski, who was then working in the theater at the Komische Oper, Trauberg led to his supervisor, who introduced him to the then 15 -year-old Grigori Kozintsev and finally signed him as a performer.

As a duo, the two began, however, to soon to go their own way and pursue their own direction in art, the eccentricity. In 1921 the two founded for this purpose, the " factory of the eccentric actor " ( FEKS ) and experimented with their theater productions within the limits of the changing theater, which then led to a scandal. The group then moved to film and debuted in December 1924 with the film adventures of Oktjabrina, followed by Ijschki against Jew Nitsch (1925 ), Devil's Wheel (1926 ), the expressionist film The jacket (1926) and The New Babylon ( 1929). In the course of her film work, the Filmduo was also known internationally and was promoted in the 1930s, mainly because of their Maxim trilogy, the poster child of Soviet cinema.

The mid-1940s ended maid Mount cooperation with Kozintsev. As director of the Lenfilm he lost his post in the late 1940s, when he was reviled as a " friend of capitalism " and from then on as an author and translator made ​​a name. As a film director, he directed his own films and later three, however, have received little attention.

His brother Ilya was also director.