Josef Auerbach

Chaim Josef Auerbach , usually led by Josef Auerbach , (born October 7, 1885 in Lésniow near Brody, Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; died March 30, 1969 in Los Angeles , United States ) was an Austrian-Bohemian-American film producer and distributor .

Live and act

Auerbach received a commercial training before turning to the film business. In the Czech Republic, which had become independent from Austria, he was president of the Jewish sports club Židovsky Sportovny Klub (ŽSK) Hagibor (Prague) and founded the two Prague film companies Elekta Film and Slavia Film, with which he made numerous Czech films, especially in the 1930s manufactured and / or sold Austrian and German versions. The most famous work from Auerbach was the "Scandalon" ecstasy in 1932 , with Hedwig Kiesler in a nude role. When the German Wehrmacht marched into Prague in March 1939, Josef Auerbach fled via Paris to England and Brazil / Argentina on January 20, 1941 to Maryland in the United States. There Auerbach again founded several companies, including in 1942 the rights company “Copyright and Remake Inc.” with fellow emigrant Marcel Friedmann and in 1945 the film distributor “Film Classics, Inc.”. Auerbach spent his twilight years in New York and Los Angeles. His son Norbert Auerbach (1922–2009) worked as a film producer and temporarily (1970s) studio boss of the United Artists.

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. S. 564, ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...', p. 564

Web links

• Josef Auerbach as President of the ŽSK
• Josef Auerbach on geni.com