Hans Karl Breslauer

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birthdate = 1888 June 2
location = Vienna AUT
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deathdate = 1965 April 15
deathplace = Salzburg
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Hans Karl Breslauer (June 2, 1888 – April 15, 1965) was an early Austrian film director and screenwriter from Vienna.

He is best known for the film adaption of Hugo Bettauers successful novel "The City without Jews" (Die Stadt ohne Juden, 1924), which is a thought experiment, backed by the everyday-antisemitism at that time. The storyline is about, that the Jews of a city called "Utopia" (in the book the city is called Vienna) are forced to leave the city, but after everything went worse, were pleased to come back. Although the dramatic matter, the film as well as the book was staged as a comedy, orientated on commercial success – which it actually was. Indirectnesses to current personalities of the Austrian politics, which were clever integrated in the book, were abandoned in the film, to not risk problems with the censorship or the public opinion. Although, nazi-groups ran riot at some showings in the cinemas.

Filmography

*Die Stadt ohne Juden (1924)
*Strandgut (1924)
*Lieb' mich und die Welt ist mein (1923)
*Oh, du lieber Augustin (1922)
*Das Haus Molitor (1922)
*Verklungene Zeiten (1922)
*Am Rande des Abgrundes (1922)
*Der Findling des Glücks (1921)
*Tragödie eines Häßlichen (1921)
*Little Pitsch als Meisterdetektiv (1919)
*Ihre beste Rolle (1918)
*Das Baby (1918)

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