Karl Wiesel

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Karl Wiesel (born November 4, 1881 in Zurawno , Austria-Hungary , today Ukraine ; † August 25, 1941 on the Navemar while crossing the Atlantic to Havana , Cuba ) was an Austrian entrepreneur , film businessman and film producer as well as a Munich film pioneer.

Life

The son of Jakob and Rachel Wiesel, who was born on the northeastern edge of Austria-Hungary, attended elementary school, community school and grammar school. At the beginning of the 20th century, Karl Wiesel, who had been married to his wife Erna since Christmas 1905, moved to Munich . Here he set up the first film studio in Geiselgasteig with the Austro-Hungarian compatriot Isidor Fett in 1910 .

On November 16, 1912, both of them opened a cinema with around 150 seats in the clothing store at Max-Weber-Platz in Munich. In just six years of intensive production, the Bavarian Film Company Fett & Wiesel produced several dozen mostly simple, but at times quite profitable entertainment films such as Harry Piel's sensational classic Unter HOT Zone (1916), but also other early works by Piel. She had such well-known actors as Ludwig Trautmann , Erich Kaiser-Titz , Carl Auen , Maria Fein , Lya Ley and Werner Krauss under contract.

In 1921, after the company had merged into the Emelka Group, the duo split up, and both Fett and Wiesel have hardly been personally involved in film production since then. With the Munich-based “Welt-Film Karl Wiesel”, Wiesel set up its own short-lived production and distribution company. In 1921 Karl Wiesel and his colleague Heinrich Nebenzahl were managing directors of Harry Piel Film Compagnie GmbH, which only existed for one year.

During the time of National Socialism , the Jew Karl Wiesel was completely sidelined. On April 19, 1938, he emigrated from Munich to Kreuzlingen in Switzerland and bought a ticket in Neuchâtel for the onward journey to Havana in Cuba. Wiesel never arrived there, as he died unexpectedly while crossing the Atlantic with the Navemar at the end of August 1941.

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Wiesel on ancestry.com
  2. ↑ Karl Wiesel on ushmm.org
  3. ↑ Failed home: Jewish life in Munich's Isarvorstadt, 1914-1945 in the Google book search
  4. ↑ For a Zehnerl in paradise: Munich cinema history 1896 to 1945 in the Google book search
  5. ↑ Karl Wiesel on cinegraph.de
  6. ↑ Karl Wiesel on nordostkultur-muenchen.de

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 186

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personal data
SURNAME Wiesel, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiesel, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur and film producer as well as a Munich film pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurawno , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1941
Place of death on the Atlantic during a crossing to Havana , Cuba