Léo Lania, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Léo Lania

Austrian writer

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1896

Place of Birth: Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 09-Nov-1961

Profession: screenwriter, writer, author, journalist

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Léo Lania

  • Leo Lania (1896–1961) was a journalist, playwright and screenwriter. He was born Lazar Herrmann to a Jewish family in Kharkov.
  • Although born in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Lania emigrated to Vienna and served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War.
  • After the war he became increasingly involved with far-left politics and political theatre.
  • In Germany he worked for the Communist-affiliated Prometheus Film and wrote The Shadow of a Mine (1929) for the Volksfilmverband.
  • He also produced the screenplay for G.
  • W.
  • Pabst's The Threepenny Opera (1931).
  • During the late Weimar era, Lania worked with the celebrated theatre directors Max Reinhardt and Alexis Granowsky.
  • Lania's play Konjunktur (Oil Boom) premiered in Berlin in 1928, directed by Erwin Piscator, with incidental music by Kurt Weill.
  • Three oil companies fight over the rights to oil production in a primitive Balkan country, and in the process exploit the people and destroy the environment.
  • Weill's songs from this play, like "Die Muschel von Margate" are still performed. Lania was forced to emigrate from Germany following the Nazi takeover in 1933.
  • He eventually settled in France.
  • He worked on several screenplays, including fellow emigre Robert Wiene's Ultimatum (1938).
  • Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Lania was interned by the Daladier government.
  • Lania subsequently made his way to the United States via Spain and Portugal. Following the United States' entry into the war, Lania was employed by the Office of War Information.
  • He later returned to Germany and settled in Munich.Template:Citation needed=September 2018

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