Gabriel Levy
Gabriel Gustav Levy (born May 26, 1881 in Mainz , Germany ; † March 26, 1965 in Amsterdam , Netherlands ) was a German film producer and film salesman.
Live and act
The son of a businessman, Gabriel Gustav Levy, lived in the USA from 1900 to 1906 and received a commercial education. During the First World War , he served on the Western Front ( France ) from 1915 to spring 1918 . Levy joined the film industry in the early post-war period. Since 1921 he worked as commercial director for Althoff-Amboss-Film Aktiengesellschaft (AAFA). Levy had a permanent production team at AAFA: Direction and production management was mostly done by Rudolf Walther-Fein , while Rudolf Dworsky was responsible for the artistic direction . In 1929 Gabriel Levy produced the first full-length, full-length sound film that was shot in Germany with You have I loved . By the spring of 1934, Levy was able to produce in Berlin, his last work was the German sound film adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann -Stoffes Hannele directed by Thea von Harbou .
Subsequently, the Jewish producer had to vacate his post under pressure from the National Socialists , and the company was dissolved in October 1934 in the course of the aryanization measures after the forced bankruptcy . Gabriel Levy then left Germany in 1935 and settled in the Netherlands. At the beginning of 1937, the producer Hermann Millakowsky, who was also exiled, hired him as head of distribution for Milo-Films. In 1938 a tax profile was issued in Berlin on Levy and his wife because of the Reich flight tax to be paid in the amount of 44,000 RM . In June 1939 the producer was expatriated from Germany. In the Netherlands Levy was initially unable to continue working as a producer and only produced a production after the war: the comedy A Kingdom for a House from the hand of the Jewish remigrant Jaap Speyer .
Filmography
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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. 305 f .
Web links
- Gabriel Levy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gabriel Levy at filmportal.de
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| SURNAME | Levy, Gabriel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levy, Gabriel Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film producer and film salesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1965 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam , Netherlands |