Karl Hartl

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Karl Hartl (born 10 May 1899 in Vienna; died 29 August 1978, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film director.

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[edit] Life

Hartl began his film career in 1919 as assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda. In the 1920s he accompanied Korda to Berlin, where he was his production manager until in 1926 he returned to Vienna to become production manager for Gustav Ucicky.

From 1930 he worked for UFA and together with Luis Trenker made Berge in Flammen ("Mountains in Flames") (1931). He then experimented with other genres, for example the comedy Die Gräfin von Monte Cristo ("The Countess of Monte Cristo") (1932) with Brigitte Helm and Gustaf Gründgens, and in the same year the flying drama film F.P.1 antwortet nicht with Hans Albers, Peter Lorre, Paul Hartmann and Sybille Schmitz in the leads.[1] His lavish science fiction film Gold, released in 1934, is among the most successful German language films of the genre. Karl Hartl also directed the popular criminal comedy Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war ("The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes") (1937).

After the Anschluss in 1938, when Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany, Hartl became director of production for Wien-Film, the newly-created and indirectly stated-owned body through which UFA, and beyond them the National Socialist German government, controlled the Austrian film industry. In this role, which he retained until the end of the war, he seldom undertook work on individual films himself but was nevertheless involved at a senior level with some of the most significant films of the Nazi period.

After 1945 he resumed film-making. On 3 July 1947 he set up in Salzburg, with the support of the Creditanstalt, the film production company Neue Wiener Filmproduktionsgesellschaft. One of his most acclaimed films of this period was Der Engel mit der Posaune ("The Angel With The Trunpet") (1949), which brought together many Austrian stars: Paula Wessely, Attila and Paul Hörbiger, Oskar Werner and Maria Schell.

Karl Hartl was married to the actress Marte Harell. He is buried in the graveyard at Wien Hietzing.

[edit] Films

  • 1931 Berge in Flammen
  • 1932 Der Prinz von Arkadien
  • 1932 F.P.1 antwortet nicht
  • 1934 Gold
  • 1934 So endete eine Liebe
  • 1935 Der Zigeunerbaron
  • 1937 Ritt in die Freiheit
  • 1937 Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war
  • 1942 Wen die Götter lieben
  • 1949 Der Engel mit der Posaune
  • 1951 Der schweigende Mund
  • 1952 Haus des Lebens
  • 1955 Mozart

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ This film contained the song Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne... which was a hit in the early 1980s for the group Extrabreit

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NAME Hartl, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Austrian film director
DATE OF BIRTH 10 May 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 29 August 1978
PLACE OF DEATH Vienna
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