Arthur Stern

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Arthur Stern (born June 15, 1874 in Tábor , Bohemia ; † November 24, 1942 in Vienna ) was an Austrian film company manager and film distributor.

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Stern's early years are currently largely impossible to reconstruct; he presumably received a commercial training.

According to a portrait in the Viennese film magazine Der Filmbote on the occasion of his appointment to the Commerce Council, Stern initially pursued the printing trade in Prague, which he relocated to Vienna in the first decade of the 20th century. "In search of a line of business that combines internationality with fantasy" , however, he was pushed into the film business, according to the formulation of the "official body of the Federation of Film Industries in Austria" , a professional association whose president Stern from autumn 1920 (previously vice president) until the mid-30s.

In 1909 he is a co-founder of 'The Kinoteplan Komp.' verifiable. Between February 1915 and August 1925 he headed the 'Allianz-Filmverleih- und Vertriebs-GmbH', founded (October 1913) by his wife Ottilie and Mary Grubingers. The company was only active in film distribution until 1920, after which it also began producing films. Stern's production range included both documentary and advertising film productions for the Social Democratic Workers' Party in German Austria .

After the 'Allianz' was sold to the brothers Philipp and Edmund Hamber in the summer of 1925, Stern was offered the management of UFA's Vienna branch . In November 1927 he left there. At the same time (until 1928) he also took over the management of the UFA sound cinema in Vienna's 2nd district. In addition, Stern was also employed as a judicial expert on film issues. In 1924, he was awarded the title of Commercial Councilor for his services to the film industry .

After the annexation of Austria by Hitler's Germany, the Jewish film manager fell completely into isolation. Arthur Stern died in Vienna at the end of 1942 - at a time when the deportations of Viennese Jews were in full swing. At the time of his death, his name was also on a deportation list.

annotation

  1. ↑ Artur Stern - the fifties. In: Der Filmbote, No. 24, June 14, 1924, p. 15
  2. ↑ Cinema in front of the concentration camp, p. 19
  3. ↑ like 2

literature

  • Film Archive Austria (ed.): Cinema in front of the concentration camp. Film artists as victims of National Socialism (exhibition catalog). Vienna 2003
personal data
SURNAME Stern, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film manager, producer and distributor
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Tábor
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1942
Place of death Vienna