Emil Rosenthal

Emil Rosenthal (born October 4, 1899 in Munich , † February 3, 1944 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German filmmaker.

Life

Emil Rosenthal was a son of the Munich lawyer and judicial councilor Wilhelm Rosenthal (1870–1933) and his first wife Lisette, née Billmann (1874–1927). Wilhelm Rosenthal was admitted to the bar in 1896 and ran a law firm in Munich with Max Perles. He belonged to the Academic-Dramatic Association and represented many members, including a. Arthur Kutscher , Thomas Mann and Erich Mühsam belonged as lawyers. Emil's membership of the Jewish community was deleted with an entry in the Jewish registry of civil status on September 2, 1905. At the time, he was only six years old, which suggests that the exit occurred with his parents. The register of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich, which he attended from 1909 to 1912, noted "free religious" as religious affiliation; in his registration records in the Munich city archive is the religious affiliation of "isr." (Israelite) to "prot." (Protestant) changed. Emil Rosenthal moved to the Realgymnasium in Munich, where he graduated from high school. In 1916 he was drafted as an officer aspirant to the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment and released in 1918 at the end of the war. He then enrolled to study philosophy at the University of Munich . In 1925/26 he stayed in the Netherlands and Italy. In 1926 he married Margarete Bauer (stage name "Mary Bell"). The marriage was divorced and Rosenthal married Regina Loose from Berlin for the second time. In 1935 this marriage was also dissolved.

activity

Emil Rosenthal worked under the stage name "Kurt Rosen" for the Münchner Lichtspielkunst AG (EMELKA), of which his father was temporarily director. Among other things, he acted as production manager for the film adaptation of Lessing's Nathan the Wise (1922), directed by Manfred Noa ; with U. a. Werner Krauss , Fritz Greiner , Carl de Vogt and Lia Eibenschütz and as co-director in the film Der Weg zum Licht from 1923, director: Géza von Bolváry , with a. a. Emil Fenyö , Gustav Fröhlich and Fritz Greiner. In 1932 EMELKA went bankrupt; the shares were taken over by Bavaria Film AG. Many EMELKA employees left Germany in 1933, including the directors Ewald André Dupont , Karl Grune , Max Ophüls , the cameraman Franz Planer and the actors Therese Giehse , Kurt Horwitz and Fritz Kortner . Emil Rosenthal stayed and was still registered in Munich, Corneliusstrasse 1, in 1938. In April 1942 he stayed in the hospital of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, was arrested, on June 3, 1942 deported to Theresienstadt and murdered there.

Emil's brother Karl Ernst Rosenthal (1901–1985) emigrated to Palestine in June 1933; his sister Grete (born in 1902, died after 1934) left for Berlin in 1934; nothing else is known.

literature

• City Archives Munich (Hrsg.): Biographical memorial book of the Munich Jews , Vol. 2, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8306-7280-7 , p. 351 (Emil Rosenthal; photo), p. 361 (Wilhelm Rosenthal; portrait drawing) .
• Peter Zahn (ed.): Help for Jews in Munich: Annemarie and Rudolf Cohen and the Quakers 1938–1941 (= studies on Jewish history and culture in Bavaria 9). Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3486717327 , p. 236, note 211.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian Main State Archives Munich, Jewish Register.
2. ^ Maximiliansgymnasium Munich, archive, matriculation and annual reports 1909/10 (1b) to 1911/12 (3b).
3. ^ Registration documents (PMB) Rosenthal, Emil : Munich, City Archives; with reference to a baptismal certificate from the Protestant parish of St. Lucas in Munich from April 10, 1917.
4. ^ Directory of the students at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich WS 1919/20: Philosophy; Apartment: Leopoldstr. 34; up to and including SS 1922.
5. ↑ Biographical Memorial Book of Munich Jews , Vol. 2, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8306-7280-7 , p. 361.
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7. ↑ ›Movies