Conrad Wiene (3 February 1878 â€" after May 1934) was an actor,
screenwriter, film producer and director of Austrian and German silent
film. He was a younger brother of German film director Robert Wiene
(The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari).Conrad Wiene was born in Vienna, younger
son of the successful actor Carl Wiene, in whose footsteps Conrad
initially followed as a stage and screen actor. He co-directed his
first films with his elder brother Robert, and later made almost
twenty feature films, mostly silent. On most of them he also wrote the
screenplays.He worked in Berlin, Prague and Breslau (Wrocław) and
above all in Vienna, where several of his silent films were shot in
the Schönbrunn Studios (Schönbrunn-Ateliers).His name was connected
with the first proposal in 1930 in Vienna to film Lion Feuchtwanger's
1925 historical novel Jud Süß ("Jew Süss"), but the project never
reached the production stage.
screenwriter, film producer and director of Austrian and German silent
film. He was a younger brother of German film director Robert Wiene
(The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari).Conrad Wiene was born in Vienna, younger
son of the successful actor Carl Wiene, in whose footsteps Conrad
initially followed as a stage and screen actor. He co-directed his
first films with his elder brother Robert, and later made almost
twenty feature films, mostly silent. On most of them he also wrote the
screenplays.He worked in Berlin, Prague and Breslau (Wrocław) and
above all in Vienna, where several of his silent films were shot in
the Schönbrunn Studios (Schönbrunn-Ateliers).His name was connected
with the first proposal in 1930 in Vienna to film Lion Feuchtwanger's
1925 historical novel Jud Süß ("Jew Süss"), but the project never
reached the production stage.
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