Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner (6 October 1905 – 28 November 1987) was a German actor, film director and theatre director.
The Trapp Family in America
The Trapp Family in America is a 1958 West German comedy drama film about the real- life Austrian musical Trapp Family directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Hans Holt, and Josef Meinrad.
It is a sequel to the 1956 film" The Trapp Family".
The film's art direction was by Robert Herlth.
The Trapp Family
The Trapp Family  is a 1956 West German comedy drama film about the real-life Austrian musical family of that name directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Hans Holt, and Maria Holst.
Based on Maria von Trapp's memoir, "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", the film is about a novice nun sent to care for the unruly children of a wealthy baron, who falls in love with and marries the young woman.
Through her caring influence, the family becomes a famous singing group.
When the baron is pressured to join Hitler's army, the family escapes to the United States where they establish themselves as singers.
"The Trapp Family" became one of the most successful German films of the 1950s, and was the inspiration for the even more fictionalized Broadway musical
"The Sound of Music" and its highly successful 1965 film version.
The film had one sequel, "The Trapp Family in America".
Johannes von Trapp
Johannes von Trapp( born 17 January 1939) is an Austrian American singer and former member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical and movie" The Sound of Music".
He is the tenth and youngest child.
Franz Wasner
Franz Mathias Wasner( December 28, 1905 – June 21, 1992) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, the director and conductor of the Trapp Family Singers, and a missionary.
In the quasi-fictionalized stage and screen musical" The Sound of Music", he is represented by the character Max Detweiler.
Alix Williamson
Alix Williamson
( 5 April 1916 – 26 August 2001) was an American publicist who specialized in promoting musical artists both in the United States and abroad.
A graduate of Hunter College, she promoted the Juilliard String Quartet for 23 years and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for 22 years.
For 15 years she was the press representative for pianist André Watts, and also spent 15 years as tenor Richard Tucker's press agent.
She managed the career of the Trapp Family Singers for more than two decades; and it was she who came up with the idea for Maria von Trapp's autobiographical work" The Story of the Trapp Family Singers"( 1949)( the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical" The Sound of Music").
She also worked as a promoter for the New York Philharmonic for 15 years.
Martina von Trapp
Martina von Trapp( 17 February 1921 – 25 February 1951) was a member of the Trapp Family Singers and was the seventh child of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agatha Whitehead von Trapp.
She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and movie" The Sound of Music".
She was portrayed as the character" Gretl".
Michael Ande
Michael Ande( born 5 October 1944, Bad Wiessee) is a German actor, best- known for his role as Gerd Heymann in the West German crime- drama television series" The Old Fox" which he played between 1977 and 2016.
He was a well- known German film child star during the 1950s.
A German reader reports," Michael played in mostly melodramas -- those films with nice people, love and mountains, etc( sentimental film in an idealized setting).
Some would consider these rather schmaltz tear- jerkers.
Two words come to mind in German.
The first is" Heimatfilm".
Heimat is home, where I came from
This kind of film stands for: very sentimental, lots of love( and some ache but with Happy End), idealistic setting, Lederhosen, Mountains, Conservative ideals, etc.
The second is" Heile- Welt- Film" meaning" intact- world- film"
They were, however very popular films in Germany."
He played a variety of roles in these films, including choir boys.
One of these films was Der schönste Tag meines Lebens( 1957) in which he played a chorister in the Vienna Boys' Choir.
There is an image of him, for example, on the HBC choir- film pages.
Michael also played in two German films about the Trapp family:" The Trapp Family"( 1956) and" The Trapp Family in America"( 1958).
These films were made some years before the 1965 U.S. film musical version of the Trapp films," The Sound of Music" was made.
( The Broadway version appeared in 1959.)
Michael played the role of Werner in the Trapp- films.
( In" The Sound of Music" the boy's name is Kurt.)
Ande like many child actors had difficulty continuing his career as an adult actor.
He had problems being accepted as adult actor as he had such a youthful- looking face.
Much attention he found in the role of Jim Hawkins on Television in" Treasure Island", based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was broadcast on Christmas 1966 for the first time.
Ande is still acting and occasionally appears on German television.
Ruth Leuwerik
Ruth Leuwerik( 23 April 1924 – 12 January 2016) was a German film actress, one of the most popular stars of German film during the 1950s.
She appeared in 34 films between 1950 and 1977.
Leuwerik is probably best known for her portrayal of Maria von Trapp in the films" The Trapp Family" and" The Trapp Family in America".
Born in Essen as Ruth Leeuwerik, she grew up there and in Münster.
She began her acting career with stage roles in the late 1940s.
In the 1950s she and Dieter Borsche were considered as the ideal couple of the German film.
In 1962 she starred in the Helmut Käutner film" Redhead", which was entered in the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.
She is a five- time Bambi Award winner.
Leuwerik died in Munich on 12 January 2016.
Maria von Trapp
Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS(" née" Kutschera; 26 January 1905 – 28 March 1987) was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers.
She wrote" The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film" The Trapp Family", which in turn inspired the Broadway musical" The Sound of Music"( 1959) and its 1965 film version.

Question: When was the director of film The Trapp Family born?
Answer: 6 October 1905