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Swen Temmel was born in Austria's second biggest city called Graz. He moved to America with his mother and father in 1997 and in 2018 he became a citizen of the United States. He knew very little English or anything about the culture. Starting school at Santa Monica Elementary and graduating from Malibu High. Being completely immersed in in the language and culture he quickly caught on.
Swen completed a 2-year conservatory program at the renowned Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Wanting to expand his acting knowledge he also took classes at the Groundlings Theatre in Hollywood. Later he finished a semester at the world famous Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London where he studied Shakespeare. Alumni including Anthony Hopkins, Roger Moore, Kenneth Branagh, Peter O'Toole, Victoria Principal and Orlando Bloom.
His passion is film and TV but he continuously acts on stage as well. Having done multiple shows all around town. The one that stands out most is "The Sunshine Boys" which was performed at the Malibu Playhouse (Performing Arts Theatre) were he shared the Stage with the legendary Dick Van Dyke.
In film Swen has worked across some of the biggest actors in the business.
He worked with Sylvester Stallone and Matthew Modine in the action flick "Backtrace" were Swen's character helped in robbing a bank when everything goes wrong. Swen then worked with Bruce Willis and Michael Chiklis in "10 Minutes Gone" were he plays a drugged out thief who's ends up on the wrong side of the gun.
Changing things up Swen then worked on the YA movie "After" with Peter Gallagher, Selma Blair and Jennifer Biels were he plays a rebel and instigator of everything bad that happens.
Swen played a young and eager lawyer across from Mr. Al Pacino in the film "American Traitor, The Trail of Axis Sally. This true story takes place during and after ww2 when the radio personality Axis Sally is put on trial for treason.
Swen also played in the films "Concrete Cowboy" starring Idris Elba, "Anti-life" with Bruce Willis, and "Force of Nature" with Kate Bosworth and Emile Hirsch.
He is very proud to have worked with the legendary director Guy Ritchie in "The Covenant" starring Jake Gyllenhaal and also having worked on the highly anticipated "Den of Thieves 2" with Gerald Butler.
Swen has also worked with stars Antonio Banderas, John Travolta, John Malkovich, Robert DeNiro, Josh Duhamel and Mel Gibson
His life goals are to be the next Wolverine, to win an Oscar and continue working with the biggest in the film business because this is his passion.- Actress
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Marisa Mell was born on 24 February 1939 in Graz, Austria. She was an actress, known for Danger: Diabolik (1968), The Great Swindle (1971) and Under Siege (1980). She was married to Henri Tucci. She died on 16 May 1992 in Vienna, Austria.- Peter Simonischek was born on 6 August 1946 in Graz, Austria. He was an actor, known for Toni Erdmann (2016), The Interpreter (2018) and Sapphire Blue (2014). He was married to Brigitte Karner and Charlotte Schwab. He died on 29 May 2023 in Vienna, Austria.
- Aglaia Szyszkowitz was born on 11 January 1968 in Graz, Austria. She is an actress, known for Die Wunderübung (2018), Der Todestunnel - Nur die Wahrheit zählt (2005) and Einsatz in Hamburg (2000). She has been married to Marcus Müller since 1992. They have two children.
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Christian Rub was born on 13 April 1886 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He was an actor, known for You Can't Take It with You (1938), Peter Ibbetson (1935) and Girls' Dormitory (1936). He was married to Amy. He died on 14 April 1956 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.- Actress
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Brigitte Kren was born on 27 January 1954 in Graz, Austria. She is an actress, known for The Debt (2010), Blood Glacier (2013) and Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010).- Andreas Guenther was born in 1973 in Graz, Austria. He grew up in Constance and attended the Waldorf school in Ueberlingen. After his graduation in 1995 he moved to Munich, where he earned his living as a bartender and had a job at a parcel service, before he started to work as a driver and a set production assistant for a film production company. From there it was only a small step to his first role in a short film ("Zwischen den Wegen" by Mathias Frik). In the same year he played his first leading role in the short film Martin - Das erste Mal by Markus Herling, and acted in Sönke Wortmann's Charleys Tante.
From 1997 to 2000 Andreas took private acting lessons and attended several workshops. In 1999 he made his cinema debut in Stefan Ruzowitzky's Anatomie, and played the lead in the made-for-TV thriller _Jenny Berlin Tod am Meer (2000) (TV)_ , directed by Johannes Fabrick, the same year. In 2001 Andreas moved to Berlin. Since then he has acted in numerous television films and movies, e.g. Gott ist tot opposite Götz George and the international co-production Baltic Storm directed by Reuben Leder, starring Greta Scacchi, Jürgen Prochnow and Donald Sutherland. One of his new movies, Riding Up Front by Markus Herling, will have its world premiere at the Berlinale 2006. In FC Venus by Ute Wieland, which are in German cinemas in April 2006, Andreas is starring as the attractive kindergarten teacher Jurij Zille. He is one of the new guard of German actors. 2006 In 2008, Andreas Guenther brought a live, and a personal Coach to his side, with whom he worked over a year. In 2009 he took over the part of Detective Anton Pöschel in the successful crime series "Polizeiruf 110 - Rostock" (TV) ARD/NDR. In addition he played leading-episodes-charakters in different series like, "Alarm für Cobra11" Danni Lowinski" "Club der roten Bänder", "Der Bergdoktor" and many more. In 2014 he took on the RTL Event Movie "Götz von Berlichingen" alongside Henning Baum one of the leading roles. For his Character "Lerse" he learned horse riding and sword fighting. He performed in different TV-Movies; "Familie", "Tod auf der Insel", "Eins ist nicht von Dir" and one very special Moment was the work with his Mentor and friend Markus Herling on the Degeto Movie, "Opa wird Papa". Then he starts in a new series; "Split Homicide" playing a Pilot and boyfriend of the female leading actress. In 2017 he took over in the new and successful German-Austrian Coproduction ARD/Degeto/ORFPrimetime series "Blind ermittelt" the leading role Niko Falk. "Blind ermittelt" is produced by Monafilm Production. Thomas Hroch is the Producer and managing director of Monafilm. - Gerhard Liebmann was born on 20 April 1970 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He is an actor, known for M - A City Hunts a Murderer (2019), Murer: Anatomy of a Trial (2018) and Wenn du wüsstest, wie schön es hier ist (2015).
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Marie Kreutzer was born on 4 December 1977 in Graz, Styria, Austria. She is a director and writer, known for Corsage (2022), The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019) and The Fatherless (2011).- Camera and Electrical Department
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Inge Morath was born on 27 May 1923 in Graz, Austria. She is known for Personal Velocity (2002), Angela (1995) and Love, Marilyn (2012). She was married to Arthur Miller and Jack Ernest Lionel Birch. She died on 30 January 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.- Writer
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Michael Glawogger was born on 3 December 1959 in Graz, Austria. He was a writer and director, known for Workingman's Death (2005), Untitled (2017) and Whores' Glory (2011). He died on 23 April 2014 in Liberia.- Franz Buchrieser was born on 26 December 1937 in Graz, Austria. He is an actor, known for Kill Cruise (1990), Murer: Anatomy of a Trial (2018) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980).
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Born in the Austrian Alps. Started out as a professional football (soccer) goalkeeper. Moved to London to play in the United Kingdom, but had to stop playing due to injuries. After appearing in many TV commercials and various publications, he moved into the film business.- Antonia Reininghaus was born in 1954 in Graz, Styria, Austria. She was an actress, known for Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie (1979), Die Eroberung der Zitadelle (1977) and Der Mädchenkrieg (1977). She died in October 2006 in Graz, Austria.
- Julian Weigend was born on 27 August 1971 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He is an actor, known for R.I.S (2007), Schimanski (1997) and Angélique (2013).
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Elisabeth Lanz was born on 12 June 1971 in Graz, Austria. She is an actress and writer, known for In aller Freundschaft (1998), The Leaving (2003) and Tierärztin Dr. Mertens (2006). She has been married to Jan Batu-Lanz since 2008. They have one child.- Actress
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Pia Hierzegger was born on 2 February 1972 in Graz, Styria, Austria. She is an actress and writer, known for Family Dinner (2022), Waidmannsdank (2020) and The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019).- Actress
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Renate Muhri was born on 24 July 1951 in Graz, Styria, Austria. She is an actress, known for Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006).- Actor
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Heinz Petters was born on 9 July 1932 in Graz, Austria. He was an actor, known for Trautmann (2000), Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk (1972) and Wiener Totentanz (1971). He was married to Meieli. He died on 6 February 2018 in Austria.- Actor
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Helmut Berger was born on 27 September 1949 in Graz, Austria. He is an actor and director, known for Nie im Leben (1990), You Love Me Too (1986) and Sturmzeit (1999).- Actor
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Andreas Kiendl was born on 31 December 1975 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He is an actor, known for Four Women and a Funeral (2005), SOKO Kitzbühel (2001) and Janus (2013).- Composer
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Thomas Wander was born and raised in Graz, Austria, where he studied music from an early age. In 1992, he moved to Los Angeles to study with such renowned film composers as Jerry Goldsmith and David Raksin at the University of Southern California.
Among his film credits are 'Independence Day: Resurgence' 'White House Down', 'Anonymous', '2012', '10,000 BC' and 'The Day After Tomorrow', directed by Roland Emmerich, 'The Thirteenth Floor' and 'Hostile Takeover', to name only a few. For television, he scored more than 40 episodes of the long-running hit series 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. He has also written music for a number of TV films, including 'Storm Tide', 'Dresden', 'Sins of the Father' and 'RFK'.- Producer
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Joe Rabl is an producer, actor, writer and stuntactor from Graz, Austria.
He moved to the United States to continue his acting studies attending schools in Los Angeles (Harry Mastrogeorge, Stella Adler) & New York (Lee Strasberg Institute)
Starting in TV on 'The Visitor' & 'Brooklyn South', he then appeared in short films 'Ice Cream Sundae' with Tippi Hedren (written and directed by Désirée Nosbusch, music by Harald Kloser) & 'A.W.O.L.' with David Morse & John McGinley (written by Shane Black) and then made his feature début in 'Godzilla' (TriStar Pictures, Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin) followed by 'Breakdown' with Kurt Russell. (Paramount Pictures, Dino de Laurentiis, Jonathan Mostow)
Back in Europe he has continued to perform in both Hollywood productions: 'U-571' (Universal) & 'Spectre' (Eon) & independent films: 'Snakebite' & 'Schilf' and he has gained wide-spread recognition in the German-speaking world becoming a well-known face both in TV series' and as a commercial model at home and abroad. He has appeared in photo campaigns, TV and print commercials and magazines for clients and networks in Germany & Austria: 3Austria, EnBW, Sixt Germany, DEKRA, Bang & Olufsen, Mercure Hotels Germany, Best Western, Sixt, EnBW, Siemens and Mercedes Benz, Raiffeisen Bank Austria and Porsche, Württemberger Wine, Pro7, Sat1, Arte, ARD and ORF.
He has created his production company 'Pelican Pictures' to work on his own projects and also to foster international collaboration with other creative talent. He is developing his own feature projects: 'Solar Storm', 'In The Shadow Of The Red Salamander" & 'Merka ' and let's go to Hollywood- Born on December 18, 1863, the eldest son of Archduke Karl-Ludwig von Habsburg and his wife, Princess Annunziata di Borbone, Franz Ferdinand was third in line to the thrown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire upon his birth. After his cousin Crown Prince Rudolf committed suicide in 1889 and his father died in 1896, Franz Ferdinand became the heir of his aging uncle Emperor Franz Josef. He eloped with Countess Sophie Chotek in 1900, but this marriage was considered unequal and they were forced to renounce rights of rank and succession for their three children. A radical reformist, Franz Ferdinand had a number of new ideas he planned to implement when he became Emperor, one of them giving Slavs an equal voice in the empire. After the annexation of Bosnia by Austria, he decided to go on a tour of his new province in 1914 in hopes of fostering good will with his new subjects. A Serbian terrorist group called The Black Hand sent three of its members to murder Franz Ferdinand and his wife as they visited Sarajevo. Their first assassination attempt, throwing a bomb at the Archduke's car, failed, though a number of bystanders were wounded. The assassins almost gave up their plans, and one of them, Gavrilo Princip, wandered off down the street. Meanwhile, the Archduke and Archduchess decided to visit the wounded in the hospital, but their driver took a wrong turn and they ended up on the same street as Princip. Seizing his chance, Princip stepped forward and fired several times into the car, fatally wounding both Franz Ferdinand and Sophie. They were raced to the governor's mansion where they were pronounced dead. Not only did this act of violence orphan their three young children, it also set off a series of events that led directly to World War I.
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Robert Stolz was born on 25 August 1880 in Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a composer and actor, known for 13 Sins (2014), Spring Parade (1940) and It Happened Tomorrow (1944). He was married to Yvonne Louise Ulrich, Josephine Zernitz, Grete Holm, Franzi Ressel and Lilli. He died on 27 June 1975 in West Berlin, West Germany.- Director
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Hans Hollmann was born on 4 February 1933 in Graz, Austria. He was a director and actor, known for Happy-End am Wörthersee (1964), Das ist mein Wien (1965) and Der Arzt wider Willen (1967). He was married to Reinhild Solf. He died on 26 June 2022 in Austria.- Christoph Luser was born in 1980 in Graz, Austria. He is an actor, known for Maximilian (2017), Hidden Reserves (2016) and Sky Blue (2017).
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Elizabeth McNeill was born on 6 November 1940 in Graz, Austria. She was an actress and writer, known for 9½ Weeks (1986), Another 9½ Weeks (1997) and In England (2007). She was married to Donald Sweet and Dennis Day. She died on 18 May 2011 in Ashland, Oregon, USA.- Actor
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Stefan Pohl was born on 6 January 1981 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He is an actor, known for L'animale (2018), The Bathtub (2016) and Maximilian (2017).- Director
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Richard Pottier, born in 1906 in Budapest, began his career as Sternberg's assistant. His debut as a director coincided with the coming of the talkies. He broached many genres along his long career: plenty of comedies ("Si J'Etais Le Patron" ), adventures ("Les Secrets De La Mer rouge"), sci -fi ("Le Monde Tremblera", with its machine which could predict the date of your death), detective films ("Picpus" ) musicals ("Violettes Imperiales"), melodramas ("Defense D'Aimer" ), you name it. He was a solid craftsman and certainly did not deserve the critics' contempt. Without him, "Some like it hot" would never have happened for Billy Wilder used the German remake of "fanfare D'Amour" as a model. He was the first to talk about euthanasia in "Meurtres" (1950) at a time when the subject was thoroughly taboo; his buoyant "Caroline Chérie" predated the "Angélique Marquise Des Anges" saga by ten years. His rural thriller "La Ferme Aux Loups" renewed the story of twins. His career neatly declined after 1950,and his last works were cheap sword and sandals flicks such as "David Et Goliath" (starring Orson Welles) and "L'Enlèvement Des Sabines" (starring Roger Moore). He retired in the mid-sixties. He was to live thirty more years.(d.1994)- Trude Marlen was born on 7 November 1912 in Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Die Liebe siegt (1934), Matrimonial Strike (1935) and Operette (1940). She was married to Wolf Albach-Retty. She died on 9 June 2005 in Vienna, Austria.
- Benedikt Kalcher was born on 29 March 1999 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He is an actor, known for Barbarians (2020), Sachertorte (2022) and SOKO Kitzbühel (2001).
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Karl Böhm was born on 28 August 1894 in Graz, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He is known for Children of Men (2006), Wasabi (2001) and A Cure for Wellness (2016). He was married to Thea Linhard. He died on 14 August 1981 in Salzburg, Austria.- Actor
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Wolfram Berger was born on 12 October 1945 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He is an actor, known for Rider Jack (2015), Alle meine Töchter (1995) and Oben ohne (2007). He is married to Nives Widauer.- Actress
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Sissy Löwinger was born on 22 June 1941 in Graz, Styria, Austria. She was an actress and director, known for Naughty Roommates (1969), Zwei Männer und kein Mann (1976) and Das Dorf ohne Moral (1960). She was married to Hans-Peter Blechinger, Peter Rapp, Herbert Hisel and Rudi Grimas. She died on 25 September 2011 in Altlengbach, Lower Austria, Austria.- Director
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Thomas Roth was born in 1965 in Graz, Austria. He is a director and writer, known for Trautmann (2000), Tatort (1970) and Wolfgang Bauer - Stets ein Fremder in mir (1995).- Actress
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Martina Poel was born on 29 April 1974 in Graz, Styria, Austria. She is an actress and casting director, known for Michael (2011), Four Women and a Funeral (2005) and Agony (2016).- Actor
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Hans-Georg Nenning was born on 20 February 1946 in Graz, Austria. He is an actor and writer, known for Dusk (2007), Band of Brothers (2001) and Eurocops (1988).- Rudolf Lenz was born on 25 May 1920 in Graz, Austria. He was an actor, known for The Story of Vickie (1954), Der Jäger von Fall (1956) and Das Schweigen im Walde (1955). He died on 12 July 1987 in Inzell, Bavaria, West Germany.
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Phil Strahl, C.S.I., grew up in the town of Graz, Austria where he attended the HTL Ortweilschule-School of Art and Design with a focus on audio-visual media design and photography. After spending a year in civil service, he moved to Salzburg, Austria, to continue his education at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. In 2010 he graduated with a Magister (FH) degree in computer animation and multimedia art, followed up by a Master's degree in Controlling and Project Management in 2014. While still in college, he began working in various roles in small-scale TV productions and commercials and soon found his interest in digital composition of digital renderings and live-action footage, and color. In 2008 he spent half a year in Berlin where he contributed to a number of theatrical and television productions as intern compositor at Rise FX. In 2010 he joined the Red Bull Media House in Salzburg as resident colorist where over the years he helped define the company's signature look. Phil has since been responsible for look and color on hundreds of features of any size while also freelancing in international productions and occasionally teaching color grading at the FH Salzburg. In 2016, Phil was one of the first to join the Colorist Society International (CSI).- Alexander Grill was born on 30 June 1938 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He was an actor, known for Wenn die tollen Tanten kommen (1970), Ein Mann will nach oben (1978) and Schwarzwaldfahrt aus Liebeskummer (1974). He died on 22 May 2009 in Vienna, Austria.
- Harald Posch was born on 19 December 1963 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He is an actor and writer, known for Zodiak - Der Horoskop-Mörder (2007), Faith: Pope John Paul II (2005) and Der Winzerkönig (2005).
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Eva Astor was born on 3 March 1944 in Graz, Austria. She was an actress, known for The French Sex Murders (1972), Le 10 meraviglie dell'amore (1969) and Interpol (1963). She died on 2 March 2020 in Garching an der Alz, Bavaria, Germany.- Actress
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Doris Kirchner was a pert brunette Austrian actress, frequently partnered alongside major box-office stars like Heinz Rühmann, O.W. Fischer, Hardy Krüger or Karlheinz Böhm in lightweight romantic comedies and rustic Heimatfilms of the post-war period. Kirchner studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna and debuted on stage in her home town Graz before enjoying a brief tenure at the famous Burgtheater. In films from 1950, she was usually cast as uncomplicated, if sometimes feisty, farmer's daughters or aspiring career girls. With the eventual decline in popularity of the Heimatfilm genre by the early 60s, a more seasoned Kirchner could be seen as a countess in period drama (Das Riesenrad (1961)) or as a heroine in crime potboilers (such as Der Fluch der gelben Schlange (1963) opposite the ever-reliable Joachim Fuchsberger). Five years before her retirement from screen acting in 1988, Kirchner took over operation of a Hamburg drama academy (the Bühnenstudio der darstellenden Künste, first established by dancer and actress Hedi Höpfner in 1959) where she taught diction and improvisation until sidelined by a stroke in 2003. She spent her final years in the dementia ward of a nursing home in Ahrensburg, near Hamburg. Doris Kirchner was respectively married and divorced from the cinematographer and director Helmuth Ashley and from writer/director Franz Josef Gottlieb.- Michael Rast was born on 31 August 1970 in Graz, Austria. He is an actor, known for Krim (2019), Before the Fall (2004) and Lautlos (2004).
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Amna Alajbegovic was born on 3 August 2001 in Graz, Austria. She is an actress and composer, known for Amna & Biba: Naslovna (2024), Amna: Lagana (2022) and Nikolija Feat. Amna: Testo (2024).- Annika Wonner was born in 2005 in Graz, Austria. She is an actress, known for Am Anschlag - Die Macht der Kränkung (2021), Der Wien-Krimi: Blind ermittelt - Tod im Palais (2024) and Vienna Crime Squad (2005).
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Carl Meyer was the son of a stock speculator who committed suicide. He had to leave school at 15 to work as a secretary. Mayer moved away from Graz to Innsbruck and then Vienna, where he worked as a dramatist. Meanwhile, the events of the First World War turned him into a pacifist.
In 1917 he went to Berlin, where he worked at the small Residenztheater. He befriended Gilda Langer, the leading actress of the theatre and probably fell in love with her. He was tired of his job at the theatre when he wrote the script for "Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari" (1920) together with Hans Janowitz. It is thought that Gilda Langer was supposed to star in the movie, but she suddenly engaged herself with director Paul Czinner and then died unexpectedly early in 1920. Mayer took care of her tombstone and notes from Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" were engraved in it (this was found out by Olaf Brill who rediscovered the tombstone in 1995).
"Das Kabinett" made Mayer famous and soon he was a leading film writer, working with the best directors in Germany. He worked with F.W. Murnau on "Der Letzte Man" (1924, known as "The Last Laugh" in the USA) and he also wrote the scenario for Murnau's "Sunrise" (1927). But he was a perfectionist who worked slowly and this frequently resulted in conflicts or financial trouble.
Being a Jew as well as a pacifist, he had to flee Germany in 1933 after the Nazis came to power. He went to England, where he worked as an adviser to the British film industry. In London he became friends with director Paul Rotha.
In 1942 he was diagnosed with cancer. Near the end of his life he wanted to make a documentary on London, but due to anti-German sentiments he was unable to find a producer. His illness was maltreated and he died in 1944, poor and almost forgotten. All he left was 23 pounds and two books. He was buried at Highgate Cemetery and his epitaph reads 'Pioneer in the art of the cinema. Erected by his friends and fellow workers.' The city of Graz named a prize after him.- Director
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Nikolaus Leytner was born on 26 October 1957 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He is a director and writer, known for The Tobacconist (2018), Ein halbes Leben (2009) and Ein Anfang von etwas (1995).- Writer
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Eva Spreitzhofer was born on 4 March 1967 in Graz, Austria. She is a writer and actress, known for Womit haben wir das verdient? (2018), Griechenland (2023) and Little Big Voice (2015).