Fritz Lang Home - Vienna

Fritz Lang's home is on Zeltgasse in Vienna, Austria.  Here the famed film director lived from 1909 to 1919, although he spent much of his time abroad.  He travelled extensively starting in 1910, spending time in Paris, before returning to Vienna at the outbreak of WWI.  He enlisted in the Austrian army and was wounded several times, along with being shell shocked.  After his discharge in 1918 he began a short lived acting career on the Viennese stage.  In 1919 he left for Berlin and a job at Decla studios as a writer, then UFA, where his directing career began.  There he would helm such classics as Metropolis, Die Niebelungen and M before fleeing Germany in the early thirties with the rise of the Nazi Party.  There is a marker in his honor on the Piaristengasse side of the apartment building.

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