Louis Nerz
Louis Mink, born Alois friend, ( born February 16, 1866 in Chlumetz, Bohemia, † 20 January 1938 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor, director, playwright and screenwriter.
Life
The Bohemian farmer's son had collected his first professional experience in the imperial state railway, before moving at age 19 to acting. Without having studied fine arts enjoyed, started his career at the Louis Mink 1885 Budweiser theater. After a further stage stations in the Bohemian-Moravian Province (Pilsen, Marienbad, Liberec, Olomouc, Opava ), he was taken in the autumn of 1893 at the just founded Raimund Theater in Vienna. The following year, mink moved to the Prague National Theatre, 1896 to Brno and another two years later to Hamburg. 1899 Mink returned back to Vienna to take up an engagement at the Theater in der Josefstadt, which he, most recently as a director should belong to, many years. His role was initially the trade of the young lover, over the years Louis Mink grew rapidly but in the nature of trade into it.
Although even before the outbreak of World War II cinematic active, mink concentrated only with the establishment of the Austrian Republic on the work in front of the camera. After initial starring roles he had to settle for minor roles but soon. In the 20s mink was the film primarily as a screenwriter and worked actively in this function primarily for the ' Pan - film ', to literary adaptations ( melodramas ) as well as to tülligen materials with audience favorites like Grit Haid and Magda Sonja. Special attention received his manuscript to Austria's most important contribution to the expressionist cinema, the horror story Orlac 's hands. The director was there, the German Robert Wiene, for its Viennese productions mink repeatedly wrote the screenplays at the end of his film career.
For the Pan - film mink was, sitting on the board of the Austrian Federal film, also as artistic director and playwright active. The Jew friend / mink died two months before the annexation of his native country by Nazi Germany.