Hans Ledersteger

{{Short description|Austrian art director}}

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| birth_date = 26 February 1898

| birth_place = Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire

| death_date = {{d-da|13 October 1971|26 February 1898}}

| death_place = Bad Ischl, Austria

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| occupation = Art Director

| yearsactive = 1926-1959 (film)

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Hans Ledersteger (1898–1971) was an Austrian art director who worked for many years in the German film industry. While mainly employed in Germany, he occasionally also worked in other countries such as Italy and his native Austria including on some post-war Heimatfilm.Fritsche p.240 He worked on around eighty films as Art Director or production designer during his career. He was married to the actress Irmgard Alberti. Their daughter was the actress Barbara Valentin.

Selected filmography

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Bibliography

  • Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity . Berghahn Books, 2013.