Hans Wollenberg

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Hans Heinrich Wollenberg (born May 10, 1893 in Sohrau , Upper Silesia , German Empire , † in the summer of 1952 in London-Westminster , United Kingdom ) was a German lawyer , film critic and, in the mid-1920s, a film producer of three silent films.

Life

Born in Upper Silesia, Wollenberg completed a law degree and then worked briefly as a lawyer. From the New Year 1920 he was editor and legal advisor to the film magazine " Lichtbild-Bühne " (LBB), for which he wrote countless film reviews and which made Wollenberg one of the best-known representatives of his subject during the Weimar Republic . “His film reviews identify him as a sober reporting journalist, not so much interested in the aesthetic appearance of a film, but more in the preparation of the content. He covered a wide journalistic spectrum and wrote reviews as well as economic analyzes, legal statements and texts on more general aspects of international film as a commodity and art. "

At the end of 1923 he switched from film theory to practical film production and produced three films by 1925, of which Paul Czinner's drama Nju, produced by Wollenberg's Rimax film, with Czinner's future wife Elisabeth Bergner in the title role, caused quite a stir. In 1926 Wollenberg returned to LBB and continued his journalistic activities. As a result of the National Socialist seizure of power and the general Aryanization measures , Hans Wollenberg was dismissed from LBB-Verlag. As editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper of the Reich Association of Jewish Front-Line Soldiers " Der Schild " he was banned from speaking.

In 1938 Wollenberg fled Hitler's Germany in the direction of Czechoslovakia until he managed to leave for Great Britain the following year. Since 1944 he was able to work there again as a film journalist, for example Wollenberg published the study " Fifty Years of German Film " in 1948 . In 1949 he returned to Germany for the first time in eleven years to give lectures. Hans Heinrich Wollenberg died in the heart of London in the third quarter of 1952.

Filmography

  • 1924: The radio marriage
  • 1924: Nju
  • 1925: marriage advertisements

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 188
  • Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen: Hans Wollenberg. Film publicist. In: Film und Schrift, Volume 16. 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Wollenberg ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on findmypast @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / search.findmypast.co.uk
  2. ↑ Hans Wollenberg on etk-muenchen.de
personal data
SURNAME Wollenberg, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wollenberg, Hans Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film critic, film theorist and, for a short time, also a film producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Sohrau , Upper Silesia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1952
Place of death London Westminster , United Kingdom