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Ilse "Kuba" Kubaschewski (born August 18, 1907 in Berlin , † October 30, 2001 in Munich ; born Ilse Kramp ) was a German film distributor and producer .

Life

The daughter of a postal worker and an accompanying musician for silent films attended the Schiller Lyceum and the higher commercial school in Berlin. She became a typist at Siegel-Monopol-Filmverleih in 1931 and made it up to the scheduler . She became a partner in a Berlin cinema and in 1938 married the film salesman and UFA branch manager Hans Wilhelm Kubaschewski .

From 1945 she lived in Munich and took over the Kurlichtspiele in Oberstdorf with partner Luggi Waldleitner . In 1949 she founded Gloria-Film GmbH and Gloria-Film GmbH & Co. Filmverleih KG together with Waldleitner in Munich with a bank loan of 30,000 marks . During the time of the German cinema miracle, her company largely dominated the distribution business in Germany; it was not overtaken by Constantin Film until the 1960s .

Ilse Kubaschewski was temporarily the sole representative for Germany of Republic Pictures International and from 1953 to 1962 also owner of the production company KG DIVINA-FILM GmbH & Co. (originally Diana-Film) with the Divina-Studio Baldham . She built the Gloria Filmpalast in Munich, which opened on August 28, 1956. “Cuba's” Gloria Balls were an important social event in Munich in the 50s and 60s.

As far as the content of the films was concerned, Ilse Kubaschewski preferred home films like Schwarzwaldmädel and Grün ist die Heide or heartfelt fates like The Trapp Family for a long time . She considered sympathetic main characters, a lot of music and a happy ending , as she explained to a magazine, to be indispensable.

The change in public taste in the sixties towards more sex and violence, as well as the emergence of the New German Cinema , did not meet their expectations. In 1974 she sold the majority share of the film distribution to Barny Bernard and only operated the Gloria-Filmpalast.

In the 80s she withdrew to the Starnberger See. In 1994 she established the Ilse Kubaschewski Foundation , which on the one hand supports artists in need and on the other hand strives for humane care in old age.

Her grave is in the Munich forest cemetery .

Awards

Filmography (as a producer or co-producer)

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literature

  • Michael Kamp : Glanz und Gloria: The life of the grande dame of the German film Ilse Kubaschewski (1907-2001). August Dreesbach Verlag , Munich 2017.
  • Eva Moser , Kurt Kubaschewski: The dream manufacturer: Ilse Kubaschewski (1907-2001). Entrepreneur of the German post-war film. Bavarian Economic Archives , Munich 2007 (= publications of the Bavarian Economic Archives, Vol. 1).
  • Ivanova, Mariana: Review of the Ilse Kubaschewski biography Glanz und Gloria: The life of the grande dame of the German film Ilse Kubaschewski (1907–2001). , in: Filmblatt , No. 69, autumn 2019, pp. 129–132.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gloria Palast - A traditional house on the Gloria-Palast homepage, accessed on April 16, 2019
  2. ^ Review of the Ilse Kubaschewski biography by Hans Helmut Prinzler. [1]
  3. ↑ Review of the Ilse Kubaschewski biography by Christoph Dompke, in: epd film, 5/2018, p. 42.
  4. ↑ Review of the Ilse Kubaschewski biography by Florian Koch, in: Abendzeitung, Munich April 28, 2018, p. 38.
  5. ↑ Review of the Ilse Kubaschewski biography by Olga Havenetidis, in: Film News Bayern, No. 2, May 2018, p. 14 f.
personal data
SURNAME Kubaschewski, Ilse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cuba (nickname); Kramp, Ilse (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2001
Place of death Munich