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 the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival. On April 20, 1945, during the last war days, Steinhoff tried to escape from Berlin on the last flight to Madrid. The plane was shot down by the Soviet Red Army and all passengers died. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Directed

1. Hitler Youth Quex (1933) — Director
2. Uncle Krüger (1941) — Director
3. Fear (1928) — Director
4. Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938) — Director
5. Rembrandt (1942) — Director
6. Die Geierwally (1940) — Director
7. Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939) — Director
8. Gestern und heute (1938) — Director
9. An Enemy of the People (1937) — Director
10. Mother and Child (1934) — Director
11. Everyone Has Their Chance (1930) — Director
12. The Old and The Young King (1935) — Director
13. Love Must Be Understood (1933) — Director
14. My Leopold (1931) — Director
15. Love's Carnival (1930) — Director
16. The Island (1934) — Director
17. The Carnival Fairy (1931) — Director
18. Kleider machen Leute (1921) — Director
19. Madame Wants No Children (1933) — Director
20. Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße (1932) — Director
21. The Valley of Love (1935) — Director
22. Melusine (1944) — Director
23. Gabriele Dambrone (1943) — Director
24. A Woman of No Importance (1936) — Director
25. Don't Be Afraid of Love (1933) — Director
26. Decoy (1934) — Director
27. Headlong into happiness (1931) — Director
28. The Pranks (1931) — Director
29. True Jacob (1931) — Director
30. Family Gathering in the House of Prellstein (1927) — Director
31. The Alley Cat (1929) — Director
32. Gräfin Mariza (1925) — Director
33. The Master of Death (1926) — Director
34. Freut Euch des Lebens (1934) — Director
35. Die Sandgräfin (1928) — Director
36. Mensch gegen Mensch (1924) — Director
37. Girls for Sale! (1927) — Director
38. The Girl from Spree Woods (1928) — Director
39. Der Mann, der sich verkauft (1925) — Director
40. Inge Larsen (1924) — Director