Max Glass

Max Glass ( born June 12, 1882 in Vienna, Austria - Hungary, † July 18, 1964 in Paris, France) was an Austrian writer, screenwriter, film director and film producer.

Life

Glass is according to an article in the construction have been working as a private tutor of the children of the Austrian imperial family at the age of 17 years and taught for a university degree in history and art history at just 22 years as a university professor. His first detectable activities are those of a novelist. Shortly after the end of World War I came across Glass, who had already in 1920 the template to Joseph Delmonts staging supplied The unleashed humanity, the German film, as the production company Terra film needed a history expert.

Since 1921, Glass worked there as a producer, director and screenwriter, and was also appointed to the Terra Board. His first film work of importance was the 1922 staging of the popular Dumas substance The Man in the Iron Mask by Albert Bassermann and Vladimir Gaidarow in the lead roles. 1928 Glass began its own production ( Max -Glass -Film GmbH ) make films. In 1933 he had to leave Germany because of his Jewish faith and was then settled in Paris.

There sat Glass his production work for the flora film. His most famous pre-war work in exile were comedies with remote Andel. In May 1939, Glass traveled to the United States, however, could no longer work as a producer there and worked as a writer beyond cinematic themes. In exile, he also tried more bad than good to market its French productions. In between, he should have stayed in Brazil, during which walked in Paris during the German occupation of the Glass- production companies flora and Arcadia bankrupt. 1949 Glass went to Paris and took his production work on again. His last work, which he also directed, the film was the way to Damascus, where he recounted the conversion of Saul to Paul

Prof. Dr. Max Glass was married to eleven years her junior, the German silent film actress Helga Molander.

Filmography

As a producer, production manager or production manager