Rudi Loewenthal

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Rudi Loewenthal , also known as Rodolfo Lowenthal and under the abbreviation Rulo (born May 6, 1908 in Berlin , Germany , † 1982 ) was a German film producer and newspaper journalist .

Live and act

Loewenthal was employed by the production company Terra Film until 1933 . As a Jew, he was released in 1933 and then fled to Austria . In Vienna he founded with his former Terra CEO Erich Morawsky and actor Fritz Schulz in the spring of 1934, the production company Vienna Film KG, Morawsky & Co., whose output on just two films - both produced in 1934 - was limited. Salto into bliss and last love were both staged by company co-owner Schulz. In 1936 Loewenthal produced the Swedish-Austrian film Rendezvous in Paradise with the Swede Lorens Marmstedt , also a production by Schulz, with Max Hansen in the leading role.

In 1937 Loewenthal left Vienna and went to France . In Paris he worked as an acting agent and looked after Rolf Wanka and Leo Reuss, among others . After problems with the local authorities and as a result of the outbreak of the Second World War, Loewenthal traveled on to the Caribbean . In Havana he adopted the abbreviation Rulo and, as a film correspondent and newspaper journalist, published from 1943 to 1950 articles for the German-language emigrant publication Aufbau, based in New York City . In the meantime, in the summer of 1945, he went to Mexico , where he produced films for his own company Fama between 1947 and 1951 under the name Rodolfo Lowenthal. Its last important production was Girls Without Love , a remake of the German film classic Girls in Uniform, made twenty years earlier .

Immediately thereafter, Loewenthal returned to Germany and settled in Munich , where he married for a second time in 1953.

Filmography

  • 1934: somersault into bliss
  • 1935: last love
  • 1936: Rendezvous in paradise
  • 1947: La diosa arrodillada
  • 1948: Algo flota sobre el agua
  • 1948: La casa de la Troya
  • 1949: La dama del velo
  • 1949: El rencor de la tierra
  • 1951: Girls without love (Muchachas de uniforme)

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. 592 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Rudi Loewenthal in: Armin Loacker, Martin Prucha: Unwanted cinema: the German-language emigrant film 1934–1937 . Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-901932-06-2 , p. 58 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Loewenthal, Rudi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lowenthal, Rodolfo; Rulo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and newspaper journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 1982