Luis Trenker

Luis Trenker was born on Oct 04, 1892 in Italy]. Luis Trenker's big-screen debut came with The Great Leap directed by Arnold Fanck in 1927, strarring Toni. Luis Trenker is known for Der Feuerteufel directed by Luis Trenker, Luis Trenker stars as Valentin Sturmegger and Judith Holzmeister as Maria Schmiederer. Luis Trenker has got 4 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Luis Trenker achieved is Telluride Film Festival, US. The upcoming new movie Luis Trenker plays is Wetterleuchten um Maria which will be released on Oct 10, 1957.

Luis Trenker (born in St-Ulrich, southern Tyrol (now Italy) as Alois Franz Trenker) was a film director, singer, author, ski champion and mountain climber, wood-carver, stage and film actor. He went to school in Bolzano to become a carver artist. From 1912 to 1914 he studied Architecture.He fought in WWI as an officier in the Dolomite. After that, he made a documentary film "Wunder des Schneeschuhs" (1921) with Arnold Fanck. In 1934 he worked in Hollywood, but went back to Europe. In 1966 he worked for TV with the ski champion Toni Sailer in "Luftsprünge". He lived with his wife in Meran, kept an office in Munich, wrote his Memories ("Alles gut gegangen" ("Everything went swell")). He died on Pneumonia and heart attack in a hospital in Bolzano.