Film courier
The Film-Kurier was one of the most influential German film magazines and the first German film paper to appear daily. The magazine, which initially appeared weekly, was founded by Alfred Weiner and appeared in Berlin from 1919 to 1945 .
content
The focus of the newspaper-like paper formed current news from the film industry, which was supplemented by reports on neighboring areas such as theater, entertainment, fashion or sport. The first two pages were aimed at a broad audience with film reviews , feature articles , the program of the Berlin cinemas, etc., the third page was addressed to experts and the fourth page contained advertisements. At times there were weekly supplements on developments in film and cinema technology or on film music .
The most important authors and editors of the paper included a. Willy Haas , Hans Feld , Ernst Jäger , Felix Henseleit and Lotte Eisner .
history
The first edition of the Filmblatt founded by Alfred Weiner appeared on May 30, 1919. The Illustrierte Filmkurier , a film program booklet for important films that was sold in cinemas, was created from an illustrated insert that was produced using gravure printing and thus allowed better illustrations . The magazines of the Illustrierte Filmkurier, some of which have a print run of millions and are mostly four or eight pages long, formed an important financial support for the publisher.
1933, after the seizure of power of the Nazis in Germany, the former publisher Weiner had the sheet because of his Jewish origin to leave - he emigrated to the United States .
In 1940 the Film-Kurier was combined with the “Lichtbild-Bühne” and in 1943 also with the newspaper “Der Film”. From October 1944 on, it was published under the title "Film-Nachrichten - Mitteilungsblatt für die entire German filmmaking". The publication was discontinued on March 31, 1945.
The circulation was 8,500 in 1934 and 8,704 in 1938. The newspaper is available in a (not entirely complete) microfilm edition, for which CineGraph and Deutsche Kinemathek have compiled a database-supported Film-Kurier-Index and published it in 24 volumes.
Collections of some editions of the Illustrierte Filmkurier are now in various German film libraries . a. in the university library of the HFF in Potsdam, in the Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF in Frankfurt, in the Deutsche Kinemathek and in the Filmmuseum Potsdam .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Ulrich (ed.): Austrians in Hollywood. New edition, Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3901932291 , p. 609
Web links
- Film-Kurier-Index in the CineGraph