Heinrich Jonen

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Heinrich Jonen (born June 15, 1901 in Cologne , † December 2, 1960 in Neuhaus am Schliersee ) was a German film producer .

Life

After completing a commercial training in Cologne, he worked as a public relations advisor to German companies in South America in the 1920s . At the beginning of the 1930s he founded his Meteor-Film, now back in Germany.

From 1936 he produced full-length feature films and made it possible for the actor Wolfgang Liebeneiner to make his first productions. In 1939 Jonen was appointed production manager at Tobis . In the commissioned films Bismarck and Ich klage an he worked again with director Liebeneiner.

In September 1941, Dr. Jonen Head of Berlin Film . His big city melody , again directed by Liebeneiner, had to be taken back from rental after the first heavy bombing of Berlin in autumn 1943.

In the post-war period, Jonen worked in Wiesbaden as a production or production manager at the newly founded Meteor-Film-GmbH. In addition to various entertainment films, including two films with Hans Albers , he produced the film biography Stresemann in 1957 . At the end of the 1950s he became head of the re-established UFA .

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SURNAME Jonen, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1960
Place of death Neuhaus (Schliersee)