- 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.
- 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.
- Subsequently he earned his living as a re-toucher for a photographer.
- The director and producer Jakob Fleck belongs to the founders of the Austrian film business and did important pioneer works together with his wife Luise Fleck Kolm.
- Thanks to the intervention of Wilhelm Dieterle he was released and was able to emigrate to China together with his wife. They had a hard life there but were still able to realise a movie together with director Fei Mu called "Söhne und Töchter der Welt" (41). Despite this brief activity they had to life in huge misery and could not much contribute to their living.
- 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.
- 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.
- In second part of the 10's he realised countless movies in which were a permanent staff occupied, among them Liane Haid, Josephine Josephi, Karl Ehmann, Karl Baumgartner, Max Neufeld, Eduard Sekler and Hermann Benke.
- In the 1920s they were known as the "director-couple" (Regieehepaar). In this period they produced between 30 and 40 films.
- Jacob Fleck died in 1953, three years after his wife.
- 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.
- 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.
- The productivity in number of movies diminished in the 30's. This is not least a question of the political circumstances which seized Germany in 1933 and five years later Austria and the whole world.
- He and his wife were arrested and Jakob Fleck was brought to the KZ Buchenwald, afterwards to the KZ Dachau for a total of 16 months.
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