Otto Kreisler
Otto Kreisler ( born November 1, 1889 in Vienna, Austria - Hungary, † the end of 1970 in London, United Kingdom) was an Austrian film director and film producer.
Life and work
Kreisler had begun shortly before the First World War as a stage actor and acted 1915/16 as an actor on the side of Liane Haid in the only two acts short film summer idyll of the Governing pair Jacob Fleck and Luise Kolm with. The company producing this film Viennese art film then hired him as screenwriters. In this role, this company Kreisler an ambitious, feature-length version of Ibsen's Ghosts was in the last war winter 1917/18 stage, Kreisler's first film directing. A year later he was able to implement even Hebbel's tragedy Maria Magdalena from Lübeck Thea Rosenquist in the lead role.
In the following years, Kreisler was primarily focused on Jewish themes. Rosenquist also received the title role in his production of Grillparzer's drama The Jewess of Toledo, which produced Kreisler founded with his in the same year (1919 ) Production Company Helios film. The following year, Kreisler emerged in quick succession ambitious productions. With Theodor Herzl, the standard-bearers of the Jewish people, he staged for the Helios a large-scale ( five acts plus prologue and epilogue ) life picture of the eponymous founder of Zionism. In the summer of the same year (1920 ) was created under his direction for the same company the first major cinematic Mozart portrait under the title Mozart's life, love and suffering with Josef Zetenius in the title role and Dora emperor as Constanze Weber. Both films were shown in 1921. With a further ambitious biopic, this time about the Bavarian King Ludwig II, Kreisler ended short biographies cycle. This film was made in the second half of 1921 at Lake Starnberg and Chiemsee and had Olaf Fjord in the title role, and again Thea Rosenquist in a female lead role. Ludwig II was launched in Vienna on 24 March 1922. The high cost of these sometimes very elaborate productions could hardly be recorded and brought Kreisler in financial distress.
So he had two and a half years long pause and was able to implement with the Helios film only two major productions, which he had staged by other directors. Kreisler was limited to the activities of an artistic direction. The wife of Larsac The daughter, a gambling among the nobility milieu melodrama that Kreisler was turning in Vienna, Venice, Paris and Versailles, built under the auspices of its discoverer spot and Kolm, the composer's biography 1925 created a Strauss waltz under the Max Neufeld. For this film, Kreisler last detected working, he could again undertake a wealth of then-known actors, including Max Neufeld's brother Eugene, Iván Petrovich, Fred Louis Lerch, Charlotte Ander, Robert Valberg, Armin Seydelmann, Max Nekut, Ferdinand Maierhofer, Otto Schmöle, Georg Kundert, whose last film should be so, and the German dancer Anita Berber, which was shown here also for the last time on the canvas.
Little is known about Otto Kreisler's future life. He later emigrated to Britain, where he was cinematically little more active. Kreisler died in the last quarter of 1970 in London.