Wolfgang Neff
Wolfgang Neff ( born September 8, 1875 in Prague, † after November 1936) was an Austrian actor, theater director and film director.
Life
He worked two years in the glass - export company of his uncle. He then spent three years office force and formed a year in painting. From 1900 to 1903 he was acting with Günther Pettera.
Neff made his stage debut in 1903 in Lüneburg. Further stations were Thorn (1904 ), Stralsund (1905 ), Constance (1906 ) and Kiel (1909). In 1910 he came to Berlin, and was appointed in 1911 as chief director of the Friedrich- Wilhelm City Playhouse. He played the title roles in King Lear, Macbeth, and Nathan the Wise.
In 1913 he stood as an actor for the first time on camera, and from 1920 he was active exclusively as a film director. He made films of all kinds, including repeated romantic films and comedies by screenwriter Jane Bess. His Mountain Film The way to death of the Bernina 1931 for the last German silent film.
In the talkie era, he was no more Director jobs, Neff was until 1936 still busy in Berlin in the production of documentaries. He then returned to his hometown of Prague.