Conrad Wiene
Conrad Wiene was an actor, screenwriter, film producer and director of Austrian and German silent films. He was the younger brother of German film director Robert Wiene.
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 elder brother Robert, and later made almost twenty feature films, mostly silent. For most of them he also wrote the screenplays.
He worked in Berlin, Prague and Breslau and above all in Vienna, where several of his silent films were shot in the Schönbrunn Studios.
His name was connected with the first proposal in 1930 in Vienna to film Lion Feuchtwanger's 1925 historical novel Jud Süß, but the project never reached the production stage.
With the arrival and dominance of sound film, Wiene worked in Germany. After Adolf Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, Wiene, who was Jewish, left Berlin for Vienna. He left Vienna in May 1934 and his subsequent fate is unknown.
Selected filmography
Eros in Chains, 1932 Viennese Waltz, 1932 Durchlaucht amüsiert sich, 1931/1932 A Waltz by [Strauss (1931 film)|A Waltz by Strauss] Madame Bluebeard, 1930/1931 Das Geheimnis der Martha Lüders, 1930 Eine Dirne ist ermordet worden, 1930 ; the last Austrian silent film; press screening on February 28, 1930 Eros in Chains, 1929 Revolution der Jugend, 1929 The Fourth from the Right Strauss Is Playing Today, 1928 Excluded from the Public Trude, 1926 Die kleine Dingsda, 1926 Ich hatt' einen Kameraden, 1926 The Clever Fox, Curfew, 1925 The [Power of Darkness (1924 film)|The Power of Darkness], 1923/1924 The Inheritance, 1922The [Testament of Joe Sivers] Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen , 1920 Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen , 1920 Die Spinne, 1919 Zwei Welten, 1919 Am Tor des Lebens, 1918 Der Stärkere, 1918 Der letzte Erbe von Lassa, 1918 Der vorsichtige Kapitalist, 1918 Das verschnupfte Miezerl, 1917 Dem Frieden entgegen, 1917 Frank Boyers Diener, 1917/1918 Veilchen Nr. 4, 1917 Der Mann im Spiegel, 1916 Die Dame mit der Maske, 1916 Der Evangelimann, 1914 The [Weapons of Youth], 1912/1913