Wolfgang Liebeneiner, German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8…

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Wolfgang Liebeneiner, German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8…

German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8398/1, 1933-1934. Photo: Walther Jaeger, Berlin. Wolfgang Liebeneiner (1905-1987) was a German-Austrian film and stage actor, who turned into a successful director in the mid-1930s. Under the Nazi regime, he had a thriving career. He directed a few propaganda films and had important positions at the Reichsfilmkammer and the Ufa. After the war, he could continue his career smoothly in both the theatre and the cinema. Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia Germany (now Lubomierz, Poland) in 1905. He was the son of a textile manufacturer. Wolfgang was sent to the cadet schools Wahlstatt und Berlin-Lichterfelde and went for further schooling to Berlin-Zehlendorf. After graduating, he studied philosophy, Germanistik, and international history in Innsbruck (Austria), Berlin, and Munich. During his studies, he became the head of an academic stage group in Munich. In 1928, he studied acting and directing with Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele. That same year he debuted in Frank Wedekind