Conrad Wiene ca. 1915

Conrad Wiene (born February 3, 1878; d. after 1933, exact date of death unknown) was an actor, screenwriter, film producer and director of Austrian and German silent film. He was a younger brother of the famous German film director Robert Wiene (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari).

Biography

Conrad Wiene was born in Vienna, 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 screenplays.

He worked in Berlin, Prague and Breslau (Wroc?aw) and above all in Vienna, where several of his silent films were shot in the Schönbrunn Studios (Schönbrunn-Ateliers).

With the arrival and dominance of sound film, Wiene worked in Germany. After Adolf Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, Wiene left Berlin for Vienna. His subsequent fate is unknown.

Work

His name was connected with the first project in 1930 in Vienna, to film a 1925 historical novel by Lion Feuchtwanger, The Jew Suss (Jud Süß), but this project never got into the production stage. The novel has been later filmed in England (in 1934), and a decade later in the Nazi Germany by Veit Harlan (1940). While a British film can be seen today as a sympathetic towards Jews and mildly critical towards the Nazi Germany, the later made German adaptation was an infamous antisemitic film permantly shown during the WWII in all occupied by Germany countries.

Filmography

Screenshot from Eine Dirne ist ermordet worden (1930), the last Austrian silent film, directed by Conrad Wiene. This picture is taken from the print on a nitrate base discovered in 1999 in the Netherlands Filmmuseum. In 2002 the film was restored by the Filmarchiv Austria

• 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)

External links

• Conrad Wiene on the IMDB
• Filmportal.de: Conrad Wiene

References

• Bono, F., Canappele, P., Krenn, G., 1999: Elektrische Schatten: Beiträge zur österreichischen Stummfilmgeschichte. Verlag Filmarchiv Austria. ISBN 390193202X, ISBN 9783901932021

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