Leo Meyer (film producer)
Leo Meyer (born August 29, 1873 in Körlin , Pomerania , German Reich ; died February 11, 1944 in the Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German film distributor , film producer and production manager.
Life
De facto, nothing is known about Meyer's early years. In June 1923 he founded "Domo Filmverleih GmbH" together with Albert Samek. Both were also co-founders of "Strauss-Film-Verleih GmbH" in 1926. The "Domo-Strauss Film-Fabrikation und Verleih GmbH" emerged from the merger of the two companies, when its managing directors Meyer and Samek left in January 1928. Even in the silent film era, the man from Pomerania also worked as a production manager for larger companies such as Felsom, the Deutsche Lichtspiel-Syndikat and Seymour Nebenzahl's Nero-Film, in whose important anti-war film, GW Pabst's Western Front 1918 , he was also involved at the beginning of the sound film era was.
In 1933, the Jew Meyer had to leave Germany immediately and fled to the Netherlands, where he was again employed as a producer and production manager in the years to come and mostly cooperated with other emigrants. In Max Nosseck's production “ Oranje Hein ” Meyer worked on the script together with fellow refugee Friedrich Raff . Meyer's last film work was Detlef Sierck's production “ Boefje ” shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939. During the German occupation of the Netherlands, Leo Meyer was arrested and deported via the Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz, where he was killed in February 1944.
Movies
as a film producer or production manager, unless otherwise stated
- 1925: The ride in the sun
- 1926: Rinaldo Rinaldini
- 1927: love dance
- 1928: Sex in chains
- 1928: Somnambul
- 1929: Miss Ensign
- 1929: Perjury
- 1929: Marriage in need
- 1929: The widows' ball
- 1930: Western Front 1918
- 1930: The linden landlady
- 1930: Chaste Joseph
- 1930: Bock beer festival
- 1930: a thousand words of German
- 1931: Panic in Chicago
- 1931: Weekend in Paradise
- 1931: The pride of the 3rd company
- 1932: It's about everything
- 1932: The child's first right
- 1934: The Three Sailors (De jantjes)
- 1934: Malle fell
- 1934: De familie van mijn vrouw
- 1934: The pale Bet ( Bleeke Bet )
- 1936: Oranje Hein (also co-script)
- 1936: Op een avond en mein
- 1939: buoy
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commercial Register Berlin HRB No. 32599
- ↑ Commercial Register Berlin HRB No. 37746
- ^ Entry in the commercial register of Berlin on February 3, 1928
Web links
- Leo Meyer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 595
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film distributor, film producer and production manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Körlin , Pomerania , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1944 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp |