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name: "Hanns Eisler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hanns-eisler"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "6 July 1898"
died: "6 September 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T04:38:37.097885+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Hanns Eisler

Composer. Born 6 July 1898 in Leipzig, Germany. Died 6 September 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 6 July 1898, Leipzig, Germany
- **Died:** 6 September 1962
- **Also known as:** Hans Eisler
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78704, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006058/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11632

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Night and Fog*](https://film.one/film/night-and-fog.md) (91)

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## Biography

Hanns Eisler (also credited as Hans Eisler) was a German-Austrian composer. Born in Leipzig in 1898, he studied in Vienna with Arnold Schoenberg and later settled in Berlin, where he began a long collaboration with Bertolt Brecht.

He wrote scores for numerous films, including *Hangmen Also Die!* (1943), *None But the Lonely Heart* (1944), *The Woman on the Beach* (1947) and *Night and Fog* (1956). Owing to his Jewish background and communist convictions, he lived in exile during the 1930s and 1940s, working in Europe and the United States before returning to East Germany in 1948. There he composed the national anthem of the German Democratic Republic. He died in East Berlin in 1962.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, rottentomatoes.com, guarnerihall.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Night and Fog* (1956), Fi1m 91, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/night-and-fog.md)

## Also known for

- *Hangmen Also Die!* (1943), Music
- *Rain* (1929), Original Music Composer
- *The Woman on the Beach* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *None But the Lonely Heart* (1944), Music
- *The Witches of Salem* (1957), Original Music Composer

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