Conrad Wiene
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Screenwriter
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, film producer
Film producer
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and director
Film director
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of Austria
Austria
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n and German
Germany
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silent film
Silent film
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. He was a younger brother of the famous German film director Robert Wiene
Robert Wiene
Robert Wiene was an important film director of the German silent cinema.Robert Wiene was born in Breslau, as the elder son of the successful theatre actor Carl Wiene. His younger brother Conrad also became an actor, but Robert Wiene at first studied law at the University of Berlin. In 1908 he also...
(The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari).
Biography
Conrad Wiene was born in ViennaVienna
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, younger son of the successful actor Carl Wiene, in whose footsteps Conrad initially followed as a stage and screen actor. He co-directed his first films with his older brother Robert, and later made almost twenty feature films, mostly silent. On most of them he also wrote the screenplay
Screenplay
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s.
He worked in Berlin, Prague and Breslau (Wrocław) and above all in Vienna, where several of his silent films were shot in the Schönbrunn
Schönbrunn
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Studios (Schönbrunn-Ateliers).
His name was connected with the first proposal in 1930 in Vienna to film Leon Feuchtwanger's 1925 historical novel
Historical novel
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Jud Süß
Jud Süß (Feuchtwanger novel)
Jud Süß is a 1925 historical novel by Lion Feuchtwanger based on the life of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer.-Historical background:Joseph Süß Oppenheimer was an 18th century Court Jew in the employ of Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg in Stuttgart...
("Jew Süss"), but the project never reached the production stage.
With the arrival and dominance of sound film
Sound film
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, Wiene worked in Germany. After Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
took power in Germany in 1933, Wiene left Berlin for Vienna. His subsequent fate is unknown.
Filmography
- Johann Strauß, K.u. K. Hoffballmusikdirektor, 1932 (director)
- Durchlaucht amüsiert sich, 1931/1932 (director)
- So lang' noch ein Walzer von Strauß erklingt, 1931 (director)
- Madame Blaubart, 1930/1931 (director and producer)
- Das Geheimnis der Martha Lüders, 1930 (director)
- Eine Dirne ist ermordet worden, 1930 (director); the last Austrian silent film; press screening on February 28, 1930 (Haydn-Kino)
- Eros in Ketten, 1929 (director and screenplay)
- Revolution der Jugend, 1929 (director and screenplay)
- Die vierte von rechts, 1928 (director)
- Heut' spielt der Strauß (Der Walzerkönig), 1928 (director)
- Trude, die sechzehnjährige, 1926 (director and screenplay)
- Die kleine Dingsda, 1926 (director and screenplay)
- Ich hatt' einen Kameraden, 1926 (director)
- Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit, 1926/1927 (director)
- Zapfenstreich, 1925 (director and screenplay)
- Der krasse Fuchs, 1924/1925, (director and screenplay)
- Die Macht der Finsternis, 1923/1924 (director)
- Das Erbe, 1922/1923 (director and screenplay)
- Das Testament des Ive Sievers, 1922 (director)
- Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen [1], 1920 (director)
- Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen [2], 1920 (director)
- Die Spinne, 1919 (director)
- Zwei Welten, 1919 (director and screenplay)
- Am Tor des Lebens, 1918 (director)
- Der Stärkere, 1918 (director and screenplay)
- Der letzte Erbe von Lassa, 1918 (director and screenplay)
- Der vorsichtige Kapitalist, 1918 (director and screenplay)
- Das verschnupfte Miezerl, 1917 (director)
- Dem Frieden entgegen, 1917 (director)
- Frank Boyers Diener, 1917/1918 (director)
- Veilchen Nr. 4, 1917 (director)
- Der Mann im Spiegel, 1916 (director)
- Die Dame mit der Maske, 1916 (director)
- Der Evangelimann, 1914 (director)
- Die Waffen der Jugend , 1912/1913 (actor)