People from Margareten - Fritz Lang, Bruno Kreisky, Franz Limmer, Hans Moser, Erwin Lanc (Paperback)

Chapters: Fritz Lang, Bruno Kreisky, Franz Limmer, Hans Moser, Erwin Lanc. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Friedrich "Fritz" Christian Anton Lang (December 5, 1890 August 2, 1976) was an Austrian and later American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known emigres from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. His most famous films are the groundbreaking Metropolis (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and M, made before he moved to the United States, his iconic contribution to the film noir genre. Lang was born in Vienna as the second son of Anton Lang (18601940), an architect and construction company manager, and his wife Pauline "Paula" Lang nee Schlesinger (18641920). Fritz Lang himself was baptized on 28 December 1890 at the Schottenkirche in Vienna. Lang's parents were of Moravian descent and practicing Catholics, his mother having born Jewish and converted to Catholicism when Fritz was ten. His mother took this conversion seriously and was dedicated to raise Fritz as a Catholic. Lang never had an interest in his Jewish heritage and identified himself as Catholic. Although he was not a particularly devout Catholic, he "regularly used Catholic images and themes in his films." After finishing school, Lang briefly attended the Technical University of Vienna, where he studied civil engineering and eventually switched to art. In 1910 he left Vienna to see the world, traveling throughout Europe and Africa and later Asia and the Pacific area. In 1913, he studied painting in Paris, France. At the outbreak of the First World War, Lang returned to Vienna and volunteer for military service in the Austrian army. He ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1163