Trivia

Unable to get film work, he had returned to working as an architect.

Murdered his 33-year-old wife Marguerite Walter before killing himself.

First wife, Nellie Bamberger, was a tennis star who committed suicide when she was forbidden to represent Germany in international tournaments.

Son-in-law of composer/conductor Bruno Walter.

Private Robert Neppach was married with the tennis player Nelly Bamberger. She committed suicide in 1933 because she did not have any future as a Jew in Germany.

When his company was dissolved by command of Goebbels, Robert Neppach retired from the film business and worked again as an architect, a job he already practiced before he started his film career.

He founded his own company R.N. Filmproduktion GmbH and realised movies like "Grün ist die Heide" (1932), "Kleiner Mann - was nun?" (1933),and "La Paloma" (1934).

Robert Neppach remarried with the daughter of the conductor Bruno Walter and they lived in Switzerland from 1938. But the isolation from his home country and the estrangement of his wife led to an irrational act and Robert Neppach shot his wife and killed himself afterwards.

Besides his activity as a production designer and producer he also created the costumes for some movies.

The production designer Robert Neppach studied painting and art at the academy of Munich before he got an engagement as a stage designer at the Neues Theater in Frankfurt. He became established in this field during the 20s and he was engaged by many famous director of those years.