Rudolf Kalmowicz

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Rudolf Kalmowicz (born March 19, 1915 in Pierzchnica ; † April 2, 2007 in Erding ) was a German film producer , cinema operator and entrepreneur.

Life

Kalmowicz was the son of the Jewish merchants Majer and Gerla Kalmowicz. In 1940 his father died in Kielce . His mother, wife and three-year-old son Marjan lost their lives in a Polish extermination camp that same year . He himself survived the Holocaust .

After the end of the war he began to build up an existence as a haulage company in Erding , initially with three trucks . In 1951 he married his second wife Hella. She came from the Erdingen merchant family Kraus and was married to the opera singer Karl Schuster.

Kalmowicz was the operator or co-operator of some movie theaters in Bavaria, starting with the “Filmbühne” in Dorfener Jahnstraße 67 after the World War II. In the 1950s and 1960s the "Scala-Lichtspiele" followed in the Kaltenhoferstraße in Augsburg-Oberhausen , in Erding the "Eli - Erdinger Lichtspiele" ( privy councilor Irl -Straße 4 ) and the "Rathaus-Lichtspiele" ( Landshuter Straße 6 ) , in Munich - Trudering the "Victoria Theater" ( Schmuckerweg 1 ) and in Aichach the "Film-Bühne" ( Tandlmarkt 6 ) and the "Lichtspiele Hubmannstraße" (also "Aichach Central").

Kalmowicz was also involved in real estate and car trading. Among other things, he operated a BMW car dealership at Erdinger Rennweg 43 . According to a Spiegel report from 1977, as a film enthusiast, he financially supported his colleague Wolfdieter Freiherr von Stein and his production company Cinerama . Kalmowicz made headlines again and again, among other things after he was violent against actress Helga Martin's lawyer Lothar Frantz in 1960 as part of a labor court case after the latter questioned his liquidity . On the occasion of the production of The Miracle of Fatima he was even called to a special audience by Pope John Paul II in 1984.

Kalmowicz last lived with his daughter's family in the Erdinger district of Altenerding . He died at the age of 92. His body was buried in the Gottesacker St. Paul cemetery in Erding. The previous word service was held by the former pastor of Erdingen, Josef Mundigl .

Film productions

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Ecstasy - The trial of the Satan girls did not come into the cinemas, but appeared as a video under the title Horrortrip der Satanssekte .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Dorfener Nachrichten, April 3, 2007.
  2. ↑ a b c A life like in a film , Merkur online, April 2007.
  3. ↑ From horse blankets to fine cloth - the Kraus company is developing into a specialist shop - Part II , Merkur online.
  4. ↑ Hannah Beitzer: First and foremost, ammunition in the fashion house , Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 27, 2011.
  5. ↑ Evaluated using the search query for Kalmowicz  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the cinema wiki. See sources there.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / allekinos.pytalhost.com  
  6. ↑ GS Grundstücksverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH , firmen-informer.de.
  7. ↑ a b Rudolf Kalmowicz , Der Spiegel 39/1960, September 21, 1960.
  8. ↑ From tomorrow we will be rich and honest - Spiegel Report on the German Film Industry (II) , Der Spiegel 4/1977, January 17, 1977.
personal data
SURNAME Kalmowicz, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer, cinema operator and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Pierzchnica , Congress Poland
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2007
Place of death Erding