Hans Müller-Einigen

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Hans Müller-Einigen, ca. 1918

Hans Müller-Einigen, born: Hans Müller (born 25 October, 1882, in Brünn, Moravia, Austria-Hungary; died 8 March, 1950, in Einigen) was a Moravia-born Jewish German language writer, author of screenplays and director. As his proper name, Hans Müller, was quite common, he added the name of the Swiss village of Einigen to it. His brother was the author and critic Ernst Lothar (real name: Ernst Lothar Müller).

Life

Hans Müller was the eldest son of 3 sons (Robert Müller, born 1887; Ernst Müller, born 1890) of Jewish parents. His father was the lawyer Josef Müller, and mother was Johanna Wohlmuth. In 1897 (about 15 years old), the family moved from Moravia to Vienna.

He is known for his screenplay for The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rößl, 1930), written together with Robert Gilbert and Erik Charell, set to music by Ralph Benatzky. Earlier works were the librettos for Erich Wolfgang Korngold operas Violanta (1916) and Das Wunder der Heliane (1927).

Müller-Einigen went to Hollywood in the 1920s where several films were made from his scripts. Since 1930 he lived in Einigen.

Hans Müller was attacked in Karl Kraus' play de (The Last Days of Mankind) and in his journal Die Fackel ^(de) (The Torch).

Works

Novels

• Buch der Abenteuer, 1905 – including Nux, der Prinzgemahl, made into the operetta Ein Walzertraum (1907) and the film The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

Poetry

• Die lockende Geige, 1904
• Der Garten des Lebens, 1904
• Die Rosenlaute, 1909

Dramas

• Das Wunder des Beatus, 1910
• Die Sterne, 1919 – made into the Ernst Lubitsch 1923 silent film Die Flamme
• Der Vampir oder die Gejagten, 1923
• Der Helfer Gottes, 1947

Libretti

• Violanta, opera, 1916; music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
• Das Wunder der Heliane, opera, 1927; music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Screen plays

• Die Tochter der Frau von Larsac, 1925 (silent movie)
• Schwester Veronica, 1927 (silent)
• Das brennende Haus, 1929 (silent)
• Monte Carlo, 1930
• Liebling der Götter, 1930
• Bomben auf Monte Carlo, 1931; music: Werner R. Heymann
• Yorck, 1931
• Quick, 1932
• Frischer Wind aus Kanada, 1935

Autobiography

• Geliebte Erde, 1938
• Jugend in Wien, 1945

External links

• Hans Müller-Einigen in the German National Library catalogue
• Hans Müller-Einigen at IMDb
• Biografie (cyranos.ch)

References

• Hans Morgenstern, "Jüdisches biographisches Lexikon. Eine Sammlung von bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten jüdischer Herkunft ab 1800", de, Wien; p. 587

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