Wolfgang Reinhardt (producer)
Wolfgang Reinhardt ( born December 13, 1908 in Berlin, † 28 July 1979, Rome ) was an Austrian film producer and screenwriter.
The first illegitimate son of theater director and director Max Reinhardt and his future wife Else home studied art history. After the death of his uncle Edmund, he participated in the management of the run from his father Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
In 1934 he stayed with Max Reinhardt for the first time in the United States, where he settled permanently after the "Anschluss of Austria" in 1938. In the same year he entered the service of the film company Warner Bros. As a co -author with Charlotte and Maximilian of Mexico and Executive Producer Paul Ehrlich -. A Life for the research, he worked with director William Dieterle, a friend of his father, together.
After several film productions in America Reinhardt returned to Europe in 1953. His following, manageable range of productions include particularly the sumptuous biopic Ludwig II - gloss and end of a king with director Helmut Käutner and also very successful color film The Trapp Family by director Wolfgang Liebeneiner.
On his last two, carefully prepared productions Freud and Hitler - The last ten days, he participated as a co-writer. For Freud, he had won the writer and philosopher Jean -Paul Sartre as a screenwriter. However, its concept was not Reinhardt's approval, so he reworked the script itself decisive. At the Academy Awards in 1963 he received a nomination for Best Writer, as well in the same year at the award ceremony of the WGA Award from the Writers Guild of America.