Austrian Swiss film and theatre director
He changed his name Lemberger into Lindtberg 1934
Daughter Bettina Lindtberg
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1955
Former actor, trained at Vienna Conservatory, who began as a stage director in Germany. The son of a Jewish merchant, he moved to Switzerland in the early 1940s to evade Nazi persecution. He became that countrys preeminent film maker as well as being director of the Schauspielhaus Zurich from 1933 to 1948.
