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Filmmaker · Switzerland

Leopold Lindtberg

Died in 1984

Leopold Lemberger, known as Leopold Lindtberg, was born on 1 June 1902 in Vienna, the son of a merchant. There he studied German literature, art history and theatre while training as an actor, made his first staging in Bielefeld in 1926 and worked in Berlin with Erwin Piscator. Having left in 1933, he reached Zurich via Paris and was a director at the Schauspielhaus there until 1948, then ran it from 1965 to 1968. Naturalised Swiss in 1951, he died in Sils, in the Engadine, on 18 April 1984.

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