Lothar Stark (film producer)
Lothar Stark (born September 5, 1876 in Klein Strehlitz , Silesia , Germany ; † March 31, 1944 in Stockholm , Sweden ) was a German film producer and distributor .
Live and act
Born in Silesia, he began working as a journalist in Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main . Paul Davidson interested him in film at the beginning of the 20th century. Stark then concentrated on the work of a film distributor until the beginning of the First World War.
In 1915 he founded his own production company, Lothar Stark-Film GmbH, with which he exclusively produced entertainment films. His most ambitious work was created in February 1916 when Hoffmann's stories were filmed . Towards the end of the war, Stark became involved with the German Film Trust Defense League against the dominant position of the rival company UFA . His own production company only began making films on a regular basis in the Weimar Republic .
With the onset of National Socialist rule , the producer got into trouble for "racial reasons". After the anti-Napoleonic drama about the Tyrolean freedom hero Andreas Hofer Der Judas von Tirol , Stark had to temporarily stop his production activities towards the end of 1933. The Nazi authorities had already issued a tax profile on Stark this year . Apparently he fled to Copenhagen that year . In 1935, Lothar Stark-Film in Berlin was able to resume film production with the Karl May adaptation Through the Desert . This work, as well as the two follow-up films from Stark, The Mysterious Mister X and The Violet from Potsdamer Platz , were directed by the director JA Hübler-Kahla . When his half-Jewish identity was revealed, Lothar Stark-Film had to finally stop its production activities.
In January 1938, Stark moved from Copenhagen to London on short notice . However, the hope of setting up a film production there was dashed. He then returned to Copenhagen two months later. When the German Wehrmacht occupied Denmark in 1940 , Stark had to go into hiding. On the night of October 2 to 3, 1943, the Jews in Denmark managed to escape via the Øresund to Sweden. He died there six months later.
Filmography
- 1915: The veiled lady
- 1915: The silver ball
- 1915: And you should wander restlessly ...
- 1915: The adventures of van Dola
- 1916: Hoffmann's stories
- 1918: Doctor Palmore - the creeping death
- 1919: The Father's Guilt
- 1919: The boys from Paulsgasse
- 1919: Gold, the curse of mankind
- 1921: Begging counts
- 1923: The courtyard without a laugh
- 1926: parquet armchair 47
- 1926: The sunken fleet
- 1927: The world holds its breath
- 1927: The white slave
- 1927: The false prince
- 1927: The city of a thousand joys
- 1928: Mary's great secret
- 1928: The Carousel of Death
- 1928: Five anxious days
- 1928: Women robbery in Morocco
- 1929: Pat and Patachon as cannibals (Hello! Afrika forude!)
- 1929: Sensation in the winter garden
- 1930: Only on the Rhine
- 1930: The White God (Eskimo)
- 1931: The way to Rio
- 1931: The real Jacob
- 1931: The unfaithful Eckehart
- 1932: The cruel friend
- 1932: Scampolo, a street kid
- 1933: Madame does not want children
- 1933: The Judas of Tyrol
- 1933: The Journey into Happiness (short film)
- 1935: Through the desert
- 1936: The mysterious Mister X
- 1936: The violet from Potsdamer Platz
Web links
- Lothar Stark in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lothar Stark at filmportal.de
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. 480 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Lothar Stark-Film GmbH (Berlin). In: filmportal.de . Deutsches Filminstitut , accessed on October 16, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strong, Lothar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film producer and film distributor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klein Strehlitz , Silesia , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1944 |
| Place of death | Stockholm , Sweden |