- An officer of Austrian mountain troops in WWI.
- For the centennial of birth his native town of Ortisei dedicated a monument that shows him in mountaineer dresses while looking at the Langkofel, a mountain he liked to climb.
- Trenker had plans to do a film about Johann Sutter in the U.S., but, alarmed at the growing anti-German feeling in the United States, Universal had second thoughts about another co-production with Trenker and turned to director James Cruze and star Edward Arnold to make "Surrer's Gold." A disappointed Trenker returned to Europe and made his own version, "The Kaiser of California," which he shot in the U.S. and Italy. Ironically Sergei Eisenstein had planned a Sutter biography as his first American project, but the deal fell through.
- Nazi propaganda minister Dr. Joseph Goebbels was very impressed with "Der Rebel" and hoped that Trenker would fill the void left by the defection of Fritz Lang, but Trenker was apolitical, and Goebbels grew to look upon him in a derogatory light.
- Beside the film Luis Trenker was also able to make a name as a writer of mountain novels and he was a eloquent narrator for the TV.
- When Luis Trenker was called on as an Alpine consultant for the shooting of "Der Berg des Schicksals" (1923), he was engaged as a leading actor by director Arnold Fanck (1889-1974). Thereafter they shot the movies "Der heilige Berg" (26), "Der grosse Sprung" (1927) and "Der Kampf ums Matterhorn" (1928). The sound film continued fascinating the audience with spetaculars pictures from the mountain world. The music, mostly written by composer Giuseppe Becce - emphasized the whole scenario in perfection.
- Trenker was accused of fascist opportunism after the war, but the charges were eventually dropped.
- Because Luis Trenker saw himself visibly restricted by the National Socialism he went to Italy where he realized the documentary "Pastor Angelicus" (1942) and the movie "Germanin" (1943).
- The actor Luis Trenker is inseparable connected with the field "mountain film" which seemed to be created especially for him.
- From 1922 to 1927 he worked as a self-employed architect in Bozen.
- In 1924, Trenker participated in the Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix as a member of the Italian five-man bobsled team. Under the leadership of Pilot Lodovico Obexer, they ended up in sixth place.
- In 1992, for the centennial of his birth, his native town of Ortisei dedicated a monument that shows him in mountaineer dresses while looking at the Langkofel, a mountain he liked to climb. In March 2004, the Museum Gherdëina displayed a collection of Trenker's belongings from a bequest of his family.
- In some of his movies he portrayed the pulsating type who attracted attention because of his self-confident appearance and was automatically the focus of interest. The people around this figure degraded themselves to extras with pleasure who put their existence into service of the "Hoppla, jetzt komm ich" caricature. A character which would no longer find acceptance today.
- At the start of World War I, Trenker fought as a cadet in an Austro-Hungarian heavy artillery unit on the Eastern Front in Galicia and Russisch-Polen.
- His father Jacob Trenker was a painter from North Tyrol, and his mother Karolina (née Demetz) was from Urtijëi in Val Gardena. He grew up speaking two languages: German, the language of his father, and Ladin, the language of his mother.
- He studied architecture between 1912 and 1914 and served as an officer of a mountain guide companie during World War I.
- In the following years he shot normally short documentaries which dealt with the mountain but also Venice got his attention in "Gondelfahrt durch Venedig" (1950) and "Schönes Venedig" (1950).
- He attended the local primary school from 1898 to 1901, and then attended the Josefinum in Bolzano in 1902 and 1903. From 1903 to 1905, he attended the arts and crafts school in Bolzano, where he developed his skills as a woodcarver.
- At the end of the 50's he had a short comeback with his motion-pictures "Flucht in die Dolomiten" (1955), Wetterleuchten um Maria" (1957) and "Sein bester Freund" (1962), after that he concentrated again on documentaries.
- In 1912, he entered the Realschule in Innsbruck, where he studied Italian as a foreign language. There he began his middle school studies. During his high school years, he spent his holidays working for mountain guides and ski instructors. After his matriculation examinations in 1912, Trenker studied architecture at the Technical University in Vienna.
- From 1915 to 1918, he fought in the mountain war against Italy in the border fortress of Nauders. Later he fought in Trento.
- He would write 23 books based on his war experiences, the most important of which were Fort Rocca Alta and Berge in Flammen, the latter of which was made into the 1931 film Mountains on Fire.
- Luis Trenker obtained the height of his film career with the successful productions "Berge in Flammen" (1931), "Der Rebell" ( 1932), "Der Berg ruft" (1937) and "Liebesbriefe aus dem Engadin" (1938), which got him a unique place in the world of mountain films.
- From 1916 he served as a mountain guide in the Dolomites. At the end of the war he had achieved the rank of Lieutenant.
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