# E. W. Emo > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/E._W._Emo > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/E._W._Emo.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._W._Emo > Source revision: 1346871875 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Austrian film director (1898–1975) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "E. W. Emo" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message) E. W. Emo Born Emerich Josef Wojtek (1898-07-11)11 July 1898 Seebarn, Austria Died 2 December 1975(1975-12-02) (aged 77) Vienna, Austria Occupations Film director, screenwriter Spouse Anita Dorris Children Maria Emo **E. W. Emo** (**Emerich Walter Emo**, born **Emerich Josef Wojtek**, 11 July 1898; died 2 December 1975) was an [Austrian](/source/Austria) film director.[1][2] Emo specialized in comedies, 21 of them with the actor [Hans Moser](/source/Hans_Moser_(actor)).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] He also worked outside Austria and wrote screenplays. ## Life Emerich Josef Wojtek, born in [Seebarn](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seebarn&action=edit&redlink=1) near [Grafenwörth](/source/Grafenw%C3%B6rth) in Austria, was the son of a teacher. He attended the Provincial Secondary School (*Landesrealschule*) in [Krems an der Donau](/source/Krems_an_der_Donau) and did military service during [World War I](/source/World_War_I). In 1919 he worked at first as a bit-part actor, then as a director's assistant and production manager, and finally as an assistant film director. In that capacity in 1927 he moved to [Berlin](/source/Berlin), where he also worked as a cutter and dramaturgist with a number of different directors. In 1928 he directed his first film drama, called *Flitterwochen* ("Honeymoon"). After that he made many light entertainment films, and with the advent of sound films, also filmed several musicals and operettas. As a director Emo contributed much to the popularity of actors such as [Paul Hörbiger](/source/Paul_H%C3%B6rbiger), [Theo Lingen](/source/Theo_Lingen) and above all [Hans Moser](/source/Hans_Moser_(actor)), who appeared in 21 of his films altogether. In 1936 Emo founded in Berlin, with Paul Hörbiger and the Austrian consul Karl Künzel, the Algefa-Film company. In the same year he officially changed his name to his business name, **Emerich Walter Emo**. He later ran the film company **Emo-Film**. During the time of [National Socialist](/source/National_Socialism) government, he was reckoned one the principal directors of [Wien-Film](/source/Wien-Film), where he continued to make light comedies, often with Moser, to whom he allowed a great deal of latitude for improvisation. In many of his films Emo also criticised the clichés of the *[Wiener Film](/source/Wiener_Film)* (the standard popular, sentimental and nostalgic "Viennese film"), for example in *Anton der letzte* ("Anton the Last") (1939), where he exaggerated Hans Moser's usual screen persona into petulance and querulence, and in *Liebe ist zollfrei* ("Love is Duty-free") (1941), where he represented the high society of Vienna not as vulgar, but as snobbish and malicious. Emo's only expressly propagandist film was *[Wien 1910](/source/Wien_1910)* (1943), which was made with the intention, through its distorted representation of the politics of Vienna around the [anti-Semitic](/source/Anti-Semitic) [Karl Lueger](/source/Karl_Lueger) and the German nationalist [Georg Ritter von Schönerer](/source/Georg_Ritter_von_Sch%C3%B6nerer), of legitimizing the [Anschluss](/source/Anschluss) of Austria by Germany. The attempt failed, however, as the film was still too "Austrian" for the National Socialists and was forbidden to be shown in the [Ostmark](/source/Ostmark_(Austria)), as Austria was known under National Socialist rule; in Germany it attracted little interest. Emo made a few more films after the end of [World War II](/source/World_War_II). He married the German actress [Anita Dorris](/source/Anita_Dorris) in 1930; their daughter is the actress [Maria Emo](/source/Maria_Emo) (b. 1936).[3] E. W. Emo died on 2 December 1975 in Vienna of [arteriosclerosis](/source/Arteriosclerosis). ## Selected filmography - *[Honeymoon](/source/Honeymoon_(1928_German_film))* (1928) - *[What Price Love?](/source/What_Price_Love%3F)* (1929) - *Im Prater blühen wieder die Bäume* (1929) - *[Twice Married](/source/Twice_Married)* (1930) - *[The Jumping Jack](/source/The_Jumping_Jack_(1930_film))* (1930) - *Heute nacht - eventuell* (1930) - *[The Unknown Guest](/source/The_Unknown_Guest_(1931_film))* (1931) - *Ich heirate meinen Mann* (1931) - *[One Night with You](/source/One_Night_with_You_(1932_film))* (1932) - *[The Testament of Cornelius Gulden](/source/The_Testament_of_Cornelius_Gulden)* (1932) - *[Wrong Number, Miss](/source/Wrong_Number%2C_Miss)* (1932) - *[The Ladies Diplomat](/source/The_Ladies_Diplomat)* (1932) - *[Modern Dowry](/source/Modern_Dowry)* (1932) - *[Model Wanted](/source/Model_Wanted)* (1933) - *[The Girl with the Bruise](/source/The_Girl_with_the_Bruise)* (1933) - *[Little Girl, Great Fortune](/source/Little_Girl%2C_Great_Fortune)* (1933) - *[Marion, That's Not Nice](/source/Marion%2C_That's_Not_Nice)* (1933) - *[And Who Is Kissing Me?](/source/And_Who_Is_Kissing_Me%3F)* (1933) - *[Paganini](/source/Paganini_(1934_film))* (1934) - *[The Double](/source/The_Double_(1934_film))* (1934) - *[The Gentleman Without a Residence](/source/The_Gentleman_Without_a_Residence_(1934_film))* (1934) - *[Petersburger Nächte](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Petersburger_N%C3%A4chte_(1935_film)&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersburger_N%C3%A4chte._Walzer_an_der_Newa)]* (1935) - *[The Bird Seller](/source/The_Bird_Seller_(1935_film))* (1935) - *[Circus Saran](/source/Circus_Saran)* (1935) - *[The Schimeck Family](/source/The_Schimeck_Family_(1935_film))* (1935) - *[Last Stop](/source/Last_Stop_(1935_film))* (1935) - *[Heaven on Earth](/source/Heaven_on_Earth_(1935_film))* (1935) - *[Three Girls for Schubert](/source/Three_Girls_for_Schubert)* (1936) (also wrote the screenplay) - *[Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn](/source/Ungek%C3%BCsst_soll_man_nicht_schlafen_gehn)* (1936) - *[The Cabbie's Song](/source/The_Cabbie's_Song)* (1936) - *[The Fairy Doll](/source/The_Fairy_Doll)* (1936) - *[A Hoax](/source/A_Hoax)* (1936) - *[The Missing Wife](/source/The_Missing_Wife_(1937_film))* (1937) - *[Der Mann, von dem man spricht](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Der_Mann,_von_dem_man_spricht&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Mann,_von_dem_man_spricht)]* (1937) - *[The Unexcused Hour](/source/The_Unexcused_Hour_(1937_film))* (1937) - *[The Optimist](/source/The_Optimist_(1938_film))* (1938) - *[Thirteen Chairs](/source/Thirteen_Chairs_(1938_film))* (1938) - *[Anton the Last](/source/Anton_the_Last)* (1939) - *[Immortal Waltz](/source/Immortal_Waltz)* (1939) - *[Beloved Augustin](/source/Beloved_Augustin_(1940_film))* (1940) - *[My Daughter Lives in Vienna](/source/My_Daughter_Lives_in_Vienna)* (1940) - *[Love Is Duty Free](/source/Love_Is_Duty_Free)* (1941) - *[Black on White](/source/Black_on_White_(1943_film))* (1943) - *[Two Happy People](/source/Two_Happy_People)* (1943) - *[Vienna 1910](/source/Vienna_1910)* (Karl Lueger, Bürgermeister von Wien) (1943) - *[By a Nose](/source/By_a_Nose_(1949_film))* (1949) - *[Nothing But Coincidence](/source/Nothing_But_Coincidence)* (1949) - *[Theodore the Goalkeeper](/source/Theodore_the_Goalkeeper)* (1950) - *Hilfe, ich bin unsichtbar* (1951) - *[Shame on You, Brigitte!](/source/Shame_on_You%2C_Brigitte!)* (1952) - *[Irene in Trouble](/source/Irene_in_Trouble)* (1953) - *[Lady's Choice](/source/Lady's_Choice_(film))* (1953) - *[Her Corporal](/source/Her_Corporal)* (1956) - *[Imperial and Royal Field Marshal](/source/Imperial_and_Royal_Field_Marshal_(1956_film))* (1956) - *[Ober, zahlen!](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ober,_zahlen!&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ober,_zahlen!)]* (1957) - *[Wenn die Bombe platzt](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wenn_die_Bombe_platzt&action=edit&redlink=1) [[de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenn_die_Bombe_platzt)]* (1958) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-auto_1-0)** ["Movie Reviews"](https://www.nytimes.com/reviews/movies). 6 March 2020 – via NYTimes.com. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["E.W. Emo"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210116093018/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f44c23c). *BFI*. Archived from [the original](https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f44c23c) on 16 January 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Dassanowsky, Robert von (1 August 2015). [*Austrian Cinema: A History*](https://books.google.com/books?id=3vVTCgAAQBAJ&q=e.w.+emo+maria+emo&pg=PA181). McFarland. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781476621470](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781476621470). ## External links - [E. W. Emo](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256586/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by E. W. Emo Honeymoon (1928) Polish Economy (1928) Dive (1929) What Price Love? (1929) The Jumping Jack (1930) Twice Married (1930) The Unknown Guest (1931) One Night with You (1932) The Testament of Cornelius Gulden (1932) Wrong Number, Miss (1932) The Ladies Diplomat (1932) Modern Dowry (1932) Model Wanted (1933) The Girl with the Bruise (1933) Little Girl, Great Fortune (1933) Marion, That's Not Nice (1933) And Who Is Kissing Me? (1933) Paganini (1934) The Double (1934) The Gentleman Without a Residence (1934) The Bird Seller (1935) Circus Saran (1935) The Schimeck Family (1935) Last Stop (1935) Heaven on Earth (1935) Three Girls for Schubert (1936) The Fairy Doll (1936) Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn (1936) The Cabbie's Song (1936) A Hoax (1936) The Missing Wife (1937) The Unexcused Hour (1937) The Optimist (1938) Thirteen Chairs (1938) Anton the Last (1939) Immortal Waltz (1939) Beloved Augustin (1940) My Daughter Lives in Vienna (1940) Love Is Duty Free (1941) Black on White (1943) Two Happy People (1943) Vienna 1910 (1943) By a Nose (1949) Nothing But Coincidence (1949) Theodore the Goalkeeper (1950) Shame on You, Brigitte! (1952) Irene in Trouble (1953) Lady's Choice (1953) Her Corporal (1956) Imperial and Royal Field Marshal (1956) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Poland People Deutsche Biographie DDB Other SNAC Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [E. W. Emo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._W._Emo) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._W._Emo?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.