Jacob Fleck

Together with Anton Kolm, the first husband of Luise Fleck Kolm and Claudius Veltée he founded the "Erste österreichische Kinofilms-Industrie" in 1910, which was renamed into "Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie" one year later.

In the 1920s they were known as the "director-couple" (Regieehepaar). In this period they produced between 30 and 40 films.

When the producer and first husband of Luise Fleck Kolm died in 1922, Jakob Fleck went to Berlin together with Luise Fleck Kolm and got married there in 1924. They often worked together as a direction pair in the next years and realised a fullness of movies which pleased a huge audience.

After the movies "Die Warschauer Zitadelle" (1930) and "Wenn die Soldaten..." (1931) Mr. And Mrs. Fleck returned to Austria because Jakob Fleck was a Jew.

In Austria and Tschechoslowakia he shot the movies "Unser Kaiser" (1933), "Csardas" (1935) and "Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld" (1937), which was the last independent Austrian movie at the same time, before he was caught up with the political situation in Austria and got a working prohibition.

The Chinese director Fei Mu filmed with them as a co-production the film Söhne und Töchter der Welt ("Sons and Daughters of the World"). It was the only collaboration between Chinese and foreign film artists prior to the foundation of the People's Republic of China, and premiered on 4 October 1941 in the Yindu Theatre in Shanghai.

In 1947, the year of the opening of Austria's first post-war film studio - Belvedere Film, established by Emmerich Hanus and Elfi von Dassanowsky - the Flecks returned to Austria, in order to plan their comeback, which however never took off.

Jacob Fleck died in 1953, three years after his wife.