- From the middle of the 50s Hermann Haller began again to work in Germany as well but remained true to the Swiss film business.
- Besides his activity as an editor Hermann Haller also realized some movies as a director respectively as a director assistant.
- The editor Hermann Haller learned his cinematical abilities at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt. Afterwards he got a job at the film company Emelka as a dramatic adviser. Finally he went to Berlin where he joined an education as an editor at the Tobis-Tonbild.
- Hermann Haller was married with the editor Gisela Haller.
- With the rise of the National Socialism in Germany he first went to Austria. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich he returned to his home country Switzerland where he was able to continue his career as an editor too.
- He soon was able to make his own experiences as a cutter in the film business, first as an assistant of Arnold Fanck for the movie "Die weisse Hölle vom Piz Palü" (1929).
- Hermann Haller soon became a demanded main editor and he was responsible for cut of well-known movies of the 30s.
- The German film business went into a crisis in the 70s and a lot of slapstick and erotic movies dominated the cinema scenery. Therefore cinematical masterpieces remained seldom for Hermann Heller too during this time - among them the serial "11 Uhr 20" (1970) and the serial "Der Seewolf" (1971) with Raimund Harmstorf -where he could demonstrate his cinematical abilities.
- After World War II Hermann Haller was virtually involved in nearly all important Swiss movies and he belonged to the regular film crew of the Praesens Film AG.
- At the beginning he worked together with Käthe Mey partly. When Käthe Mey was banned from the Swiss job market during World War II because she was a British national Hermann Haller became the leading editor in the Swiss film business.
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