Hans Steinhoff

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1882-03-10 (63 years old)

Deathday

1945-04-20

Place of Birth

Marienberg, Saxony, Germany

Hans Steinhoff

Biography

Hans Steinhoff (10 March 1882, Marienberg – 20 April 1945) was a German film director, best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era. Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stage director. He directed his first silent film Clothes Make the Man, the adaption of a novel by Gottfried Keller, in 1921. Steinhoff was a convinced Nazi and directed many propaganda films, he sometimes even wore his Nazi party membership button on the film set. His most notable films were perhaps Hitlerjunge Quex (1933), an influential propaganda film for the Hitler Youth, and Ohm Krüger (1940), for which he won t...

Production

1924

Inge Larsen

as Writer

1940

Die Geierwally

as Director

1940

Die Geierwally

as Screenplay

1921

1933

1938

1938

1942

Rembrandt

as Director

1941

Uncle Krüger

as Director

1937

Ein Volksfeind

as Director

1935

Der Ammenkönig

as Director

1931

My Leopold

as Director

1944

Melusine

as Director

1943

1934

Lockvogel

as Director

1930

Love's Carnival

as Director

1926

1934

Die Insel

as Director

1934

Mother and Child

as Director

1931

1931

True Jacob

as Director

1931

The Pranks

as Director

1934

1929

The Alley Cat

as Director

1930

Fundvogel

as Writer

1938

1928

Die Sandgräfin

as Director

1924

1927

Girls for Sale!

as Director

1924

Inge Larsen

as Director

1934

Vers l'abîme

as Director

1933

Un peu d'amour

as Director

1928

The Three Kings

as Director

1925

Gräfin Mariza

as Director

1926

Schwiegersöhne

as Director

1926

1923

Die Fledermaus

as Screenplay

1942

Rembrandt

as Writer

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