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Hilde Krahl
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Hilde Krahl was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in 70 films between 1936 and 1994 and she was born Hildegard Kolačný in Brod, Austria-Hungary and died in Vienna, Austria. In 1944 she married Wolfgang Liebeneiner, their daughter Johanna Liebeneiner also became a famous actress, der Postmeister The Comedians Anuschka Melody of a Great City Love 47 Shadows in the Night A Devil of a Woman No Greater Love 1
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Robert Stolz
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Robert Elisabeth Stolz was an Austrian songwriter and conductor as well as a composer of operettas and film music. Stolz was born of parents in Graz. His father was a conductor, his mother a concert pianist, at the age of seven, he toured Europe as a pianist, playing Mozart. He studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Robert Fuchs and Engelbert Humperdinck, from 1899 he held successive conducting posts at Maribor, Salzburg and Brno before succeeding Artur Bodanzky at the Theater an der Wien in 1907. There he conducted, among other pieces, the first performance of Oscar Strausss Der tapfere Soldat in 1908, before leaving in 1910 to become a freelance composer, meanwhile, he had begun to compose operettas and individual songs and had a number of successes in these fields. After serving in the Austrian Army in World War I, Stolz devoted himself mainly to cabaret, around 1930, he started to compose music for films, such as the first German sound film Zwei Herzen im Dreivierteltakt, of which the title-waltz rapidly became a popular favourite. The rise of Nazi Germany led Stolz to return to Vienna and he remained active in Berlin as well. He used to travel by car between the two cities, so he smuggled Jews and political refugees across the German-Austrian border in the trunk of his limousine and he managed to do so 21 times. Then came the Anschluss, and he moved again, first to Zürich and then to Paris, with the help of friends he was released and in 1940 made his way to New York. In America, Stolz achieved fame with his concerts of Viennese music, in 1946 Stolz returned to Vienna, where he lived for the rest of his life. In the 1960s and 1970s he made recordings of operettas by composers such as Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, and Leo Fall. In 1952, he began to compose for the Vienna Ice Revue and he dedicated his first of 19 ice operettas to European Champion Eva Pawlik. In 1970, to mark his 90th birthday, he was made an Honorary Citizen of Vienna and he was also awarded Viennas Grand Medal of Honour, being only the second musician ever to be so honoured. He also appeared on a series of commemorative Austrian postage stamps, in later years he used a baton inherited from Franz Lehár, which had been originally owned by Johann Strauss and contained Strausss initials engraved in silver. After his death in Berlin in 1975, Robert Stolz received the honour of a lying-in-state in the foyer of the Vienna State Opera House and he was buried near Johannes Brahms and Johann Strauss II in Viennas Zentralfriedhof, and a statue to him was erected in the Wiener Stadtpark. Robert Stolz was married five times and his first and second wives, were singers. His third wife was Josephine Zernitz and the fourth was named Lilli and his fifth wife Yvonne Louise Ulrich, called Einzi, was his manager until his death. She had one daughter from her first marriage, whom Robert Stolz adopted, the Barbed Wire Waltz, the memoirs of the Last Waltz King Melbourne, Robert Stolz Publishing
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Fritz Arno Wagner
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Fritz Arno Wagner is considered one of the most acclaimed German cinematographers from the 1920s to the 1950s. He played a key role in the Expressionist film movement during the Weimar period and is perhaps best known for excelling in the portrayal of horror according to noted film critic Lotte H. Eisner. Born in Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig, Germany, Wagner received his training at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in 1910, while still attending the University of Leipzig, he managed to secure a job as a clerk at the Pathé film company. In 1912, he became secretary and chef at the Pathé offices in Vienna and later in Berlin. Interested in cinematography he became a cameraman in 1913 and was stationed in New York for Pathé Weekly where he reported on the Mexican Revolution. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he returned to Germany to enlist in his countrys elite Hussar cavalry whilst still filming war reports, however, after being wounded, he decided to take the job of stills photographer and then 2nd cameraman at Projektions-AG Union PAGU. In 1919, he went to work as a cameraman for Decla-Bioscop. Along with Karl Freund, Wagner became Germanys leading cinematographer of the 1920s and 1930s, a master of the dark, moody lighting that characterized the expressionist movement. He worked with some of Germany most prominent directors, including Ernst Lubitsch on Madame Du Barry, F. W. Murnau on The Haunted Castle, The Burning Soil and his classic Nosferatu, and G. W. Pabst on four features, The Love of Jeanne Ney, Westfront 1918, Comradeship and The Threepenny Opera based on the Bertolt Brecht and he also collaborated with Fritz Lang on four films, Destiny, Spies, M and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. After the Nazis took over in 1933, causing many of the leading film directors to flee Germany for the U. S. Wagners career began to decline. To make ends meet he abandoned his style and turned to making glossy costume epics. On 18 August 1958, Wagner died in Göttingen in an automobile accident whilst shooting the comedy. He is buried at the Waldfriedhof Dahlem am Hüttenweg cemetery in Berlin
