Paul Kohner
Paul Kohner (born March 29, 1902 in Teplitz-Schönau , Austria-Hungary , † March 16, 1988 in Los Angeles , California , United States ) was an Austrian - American film producer and acting agent.
Life
Paul Kohner was discovered by Carl Laemmle , the founder of Universal, on one of his numerous trips to Europe. Laemmle took Kohner to Hollywood in 1921 and promoted him. Under Laemmle, Kohner rose to become a producer and was finally commissioned to manage Deutsche Universal in 1928 . In 1938, Kohner founded the European Film Fund , which was supposed to support displaced European filmmakers in financial distress. As an agent, he looked after Marlene Dietrich , Greta Garbo , Dolores del Río , Maurice Chevalier , Billy Wilder , Liv Ullmann , Henry Fonda , David Niven , Erich von Stroheim , Ingmar Bergman , Lex Barker and Lana Turner .
Private life
Kohner was married to the Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and is the grandfather of Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz . His daughter is the actress Susan Kohner .
Company estate
The estate of Paul Kohner's agency was bought by the Deutsche Kinemathek in 1988. The estate contained about five thousand client files, about a thousand scripts, and thousands of letters. In 2013, 25 scripts from the estate were published under the title In the distance, happiness - stories for Hollywood by Aufbau Verlag Berlin. None of the scripts published here were filmed.
Filmography (selection)
- 1927: Spuk im Schloß (The Cat and the Canary)
- 1929: The Strange Past of Thea Carter
- 1929: Through the Brandenburg Gate
- 1929: The rush of spring
- 1929: Ludwig the Second, King of Bavaria
- 1931: Drácula
- 1932: The Rebel
- 1933: SOS Iceberg
- 1934: The prodigal son
- 1936: Next Time We Love
- 1979: Erich von Stroheim: The man with the evil eye
- 1986: Almost a century: Luis Trenker
- 1989: Who was Arnold Fanck?
literature
- Heike Klapdor (Ed.): I am an incurable European. Letters from exile from Thomas Mann , Alfred Polgar , Carl Zuckmayer , Max Ophüls . u. v. a. Structure, Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-351-02655-4 (letters to and from Kohner, even if not mentioned in the title)
- Stefanie Hartmann: Review in literary criticism
- List of literature used (PDF; 209 kB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Kohner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Paul Kohner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A picture of Paul Kohner and his tombstone in Culver City
- Paul Kohner Agency on Arts in Exile
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Eilert : The suffering of incurable Europeans in Hollywood . In: FAZ , May 31, 2013, p. 32
- ^ Exhibition of parts of Kohner's estate in the Deutsche Kinemathek
- ^ Edited by Wolfgang Jacobsen and Heike Klapdor
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohner, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film producer and acting agent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Teplitz-Schönau , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1988 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California, United States |