Aleksandar Lifka

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Aleksandar Lifka (* 1880 in Brassó , Austria-Hungary, now Romania , † November 12, 1952 ) was a filmmaker with Czech roots.

Life

Inscription of the former Lifka cinema in Linz

Lifka spent his childhood in Zatec and attended a school in Prague . He then moved to Vienna to study at the Technical University there. During his studies he experimented with the magic lantern . After completing his studies, he moved to Paris and bought a camera from the Pathé company. With this he filmed the visit of Emperor Franz Joseph in Gödöllő, Hungary .

After his father's death, he and his brother Karl bought a traveling movie theater with which they traveled around Europe. The first city where they gave their demonstrations was Trieste in Italy. Afterwards they traveled to Rijeka , Bjelovar , Osijek , Ljubljana , Belgrade , Zemun , Novi Sad and Subotica . In 1900 he came to Gödöllö, where he met Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth in their summer residence. In Trieste his brother set up a tent with 460 places and showed the first moving pictures there.

In 1903 they bought a second traveling movie theater with which his brother Karl went to Austria. During his travels, Aleksandar Lifka filmed the country and its people or political meetings, made small documentaries and performed them.

In a monograph on Aleksandar Lifka on the occasion of the exhibition "Lifka (1880–1952)" it says: "Lifka is considered the creator of Central European cinema, which opened the first permanently installed cinemas in the Subotica region 100 years ago ."

In 1910 he and his wife Beck Erzsébet converted the great hall of the Hotel Hungaria in Subotica into a movie theater. During the Second World War he was hired for the film war press to film fights in Galicia. He was wounded while filming. After the war he went back to Subotica and took Yugoslav citizenship. He died on November 12, 1952. Only about 20 of his films have survived.

The Alexander Lifka Prize is named after the filmmaker and is awarded annually at the Međunarodni filmski festival Palić .

literature

  • János Brenner: Lifka: pionir cinematografije. in: NIP Subotičke novine. Otvoreni univerzitet, Subotica 1993, OCLC 57308916 .
  • Zsuzsa Farkas: Lifka, 1880–1952: adalékok Lifka Sándor életművéhez. Szabadegyetem, Szabadka 2009, ISBN 978-8-687-61302-7 , OCLC 742017915

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Report: Magyar film a palicsi fesztivál versenyprogramjában - Aleksandar Lifka-monográfiát mutatnak be Szerbiában. on szabadsag.ro, accessed March 3, 2013.
  2. ^ Image from the traveling cinema "Grand Théâtre élektrique", with which Alexandar Lifka drove through Austria, 1906 . In: European History Online . Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  3. ↑ 19th Festival of European Films. - Aleksandar Lifka Prize for Jean-Marc Barr and the Serbian composer Zoran Simjanovic. on voiceofserbia.org, accessed March 3, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Lifka, Aleksandar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav filmmaker with Czech roots
DATE OF BIRTH 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Brassó , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1952