Erich Morawsky

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Erich Morawsky (born October 25, 1890 in Berlin ; † March 3, 1958 in Ascona , Switzerland ) was a German film distributor, film company manager and film producer .

Life

In 1910, Morawsky entered the hitherto barely developed film business and began his first job at the French production company Gaumont . Later he also participated in the founding of the German film company Decla. In 1919 Morawsky was one of the founders of Terra Film , which in the summer of 1922 absorbed Franz Vogel's Eiko-Film . Together with his partner Max Glass and Heinrich Hammerschmidt, Morawsky became managing director of Terra Glashaus GmbH. Morawsky's last role as film manager in the Weimar Republic was that of the head of the Berlin Atlas-Film Verleih GmbH.

With the seizure of power by the Nazis the Jew Erich Morawsky had to flee Germany 1,933th He first settled in Austria and founded the production company Wiener Film KG, Morawsky & Co. in Vienna at the beginning of 1934 , together with his fellow Terra colleague Rudi Loewenthal, who had also fled, and the actor Fritz Schulz . Erich Morawsky produced for this tiny company that same year the two exile films “ Salto into Bliss ” and “ Last Love ”. When film production in Austria became more and more difficult for Jews, Morawsky moved to Paris at the beginning of 1936 and became a co-owner of an artist agency, whose clients included the also exiled director Leo Mittler .

When the Second World War broke out , Erich Morawsky was interned as an enemy alien in the Gurs camp in southern France . During the German occupation, Morawsky and his wife were able to go into hiding with French farmers thanks to forged papers. After the liberation, the couple moved to the USA in 1946, where Morawsky re-founded Terra-Film in Los Angeles. In the United States he also worked as a correspondent for German film papers in Hollywood . Back in (the Federal Republic of) Germany, Erich Morawsky again founded a film production company in 1953, Interglobal-Filmproduktion in Munich, with which he brought out the film " Wedding while traveling " in the same year with his own script participation . Most recently Morawsky lived in Switzerland (Ascona), where he also died.

Filmography

as a personal producer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Eiko studio on cinegraph.de

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. 596.

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personal data
SURNAME Morawsky, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and film company manager
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1958
Place of death Ascona , Switzerland