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- Conrad Wiene was born on February 3, 1878 in Vienna, Austria. He was a director and writer, known for Das Erbe (1922), Irrende Liebe (1917) and Zwei Welten (1919). He died in March 1934.
- He worked in Berlin, Prague and Breslau (Wroclaw) and above all in Vienna, where several of his silent films were shot in the Schönbrunn Studios (Schönbrunn-Ateliers).
- Conrad Wiene joined the film business in 1912 and he made his debut as a movie actor with "Die Waffen der Jugend" (1913). The movie was directed by his brother, the later becoming famous director Robert Wiene.
- His last cinematical works as a movie director came at the beginning of the 30s into being with "Das Schicksal einer schönen Frau" (1931), "Durchlaucht amüsiert sich" (1932) and "Johann Strauss, k.u.k. Hofkapellmeister" (1932).
- Conrad Wiene became fascinated by the work of a movie director and in the next years he realised numerous silent movies, among them "Der Evangelimann" (1914), Der Stärkere" (1918), "Das Haus ohne Lachen" (1918), "Der Umweg zur Ehe" (1199) and "Die Spinne" (1199).
- After Adolf Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, Wiene, who was Jewish, left Berlin for Vienna.
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