Hans Ledersteger

Hans Ledersteger
Born	26 February 1898 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	13 October 1971 Bad Ischl, Austria
Occupation	Art Director
Years active	1926-1959 (film)

Hans Ledersteger (1898–1971) was an Austrian art director who worked for many years in the German film industry. While mainly employed in Germany, he occasionally also worked in other countries such as Italy and his native Austria including on some post-war Heimatfilm. He worked on around eighty films as Art Director or production designer during his career. He was married to the actress Irmgard Alberti. Their daughter was the actress Barbara Valentin.

Selected filmography

• Schweik in Civilian Life (1927)
• Marriage (1928)
• The Missing Wife (1929)
• Madame Bluebeard (1931)
• Viennese Waltz (1932)
• A Woman Between Two Worlds (1936)
• Die Liebe des Maharadscha (1936)
• The Charm of La Boheme (1937)
• Hotel Sacher (1939)
• Nothing But Coincidence (1949)
• Kissing Is No Sin (1950)
• A Thousand Red Roses Bloom (1952)
• Ave Maria (1953)
• Come Back (1953)
• A Musical War of Love (1953)
• Marriages Forbidden (1957)

Bibliography

• Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity . Berghahn Books, 2013.

External links

• Hans Ledersteger at IMDb