Biography

After Alice Guy of France, Louise Kolm-Fleck ranks among the first female feature director/writer/producers with a substantial career that spanned the silent era into sound.

After her first direction for "Am Gänsehäusl" (1908) she realised movies as a director from 1911 regularly.

Her cinematical career began in 1910 when she founded together with her husband Anton Kolm and the director Jakob Fleck the "Erste österreichische Kinofilms-Industrie". This company was renamed into "Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie" in 1911. It soon crystallized that Luise Fleck Kolm was the artistic head whereas her husband was especially responsible for the financial part.

In 1919 she founded together with her husband the Vita Film and they realised other well-known productions like "Durch Wahrheit zum Narren" (1920), "Der tanzende Tod" (1920), "Eva, die Sünde" (1920), "Eine Million Dollar" (1921), "Revanche" (22) and "Die Tochter der Frau Iarsac" (24) under her direction. The production company went bankrupt in 1924. She successfully continued her cinematical career in the next years despite this setback.

Her father Louis Veltée run an panoptikum wax museum in Vienna and already showed movies from 1896. Luise Fleck Kolm sat at the cash-box as a child and came in contact with this new medium very early.