Alfred Weiner

Alfred Weiner (born February 12, 1877 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † November 10, 1954 in Riverside , California , United States ) was an originally Hungarian, later in exile American film journalist and publisher .

Life

Born in Bohemia with a Hungarian passport, he owned his own publishing house in Berlin, the Alfred Weiner publishing house, and founded the Film-Kurier , which appeared from the end of May 1919 and was the most important trade journal in the film industry until 1945, which published not only news from the film industry but also detailed film reviews. The best-known authors of this specialist publication included Willy Haas , Hans Feld , Ernst Jäger and Lotte Eisner . An important financial support of the publishing house was in gravure appearing film program brochure Illustrated Film-Kurier , which was sold at the cinema and at times reached a million copies.

As a Jew, had Weiner after the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 to give up his property - initially for a pittance as rent to the National Association of the German movie theater owners - and then fled from Germany. Alfred Weiner initially settled in Paris with his French wife Léa . In 1935 he went temporarily to the United States the following year. Weiner, who had been naturalized in California on July 9, 1943, continued to work there as a journalist.

Weiner's stepson Lucien C. Mandelik had also initially worked as a journalist for the Film-Kurier and was managing director of this publication from 1930 before he started his own publications in American exile.

literature

• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 614.
• Christian Cargnelli (ed.): Departure into the unknown. Lexicon, tributes, testimonials. Vienna 1993, p. 153.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Weiner on books.google.de
2. ↑ Weiner on ancestry.com