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Filmmaker · Austria

Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Died in 1987

Wolfgang Liebeneiner (1905-1987), born in Liebau, in Silesia, the son of an officer and linen manufacturer, was an actor in Munich and Berlin, then a director of German cinema under the Nazi regime: in 1941 he directed the film intended to justify the murder of the sick and disabled, and in 1942 he became head of production at Ufa. The investigation opened against him was closed in 1947, and his denazification cleared him in 1949. He then ran the Kammerspiele in Hamburg, settled in Vienna in 1954, worked extensively for television and died there.

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