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Artur "Atze" Brauner (born Abraham Brauner; 1 August 1918 – 7 July 2019) was a German film producer and entrepreneur of Polish origin. He produced more than 300 films from 1946. Life and career. He was born the oldest son of a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. His father was a timber wholesaler.
Ms. Dillmann is Director of the German Film Institute in Frankfurt Main and a renowned expert on Artur Brauner, and also initiated the online resource filmportal.de. She talked to us about Brauner’s interest in the victims of Nazi crimes, the balancing acts it has called for, his veneration of Romy Schneider, and the German public’s tastes.
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- The Jewish Cycle
Nevertheless, after the war Brauner still saw his future in Germany. When, on September 19th, 1946, after a dogged struggle with the allied military authorities, he obtained all the necessary licenses, he founded the Central Cinema Company, or CCC, in the US sector of Berlin and set about tackling a remarkable challenge. The problem was that German...
When in the 1950s cinema in Germany started booming, CCC enjoyed its heyday with melodramas and comedies, adventure films and musicals. Atze Brauner became the “Economic Miracle Man” of German cinema. He decided to expand, in 1949 he had the site of a former poisonous gas factory in Berlin-Spandau converted into modern film studios. It was there th...
Now Brauner’s success enabled him to make use of material that was not so “popular”. For example, he was able to win over Jewish returned emigrant, Robert Siodmak, to direct the Gerhart Hauptmann filmDie Ratten (The Rats / 1955). The drama about a pregnant young Polish woman in post-war Berlin with Maria Schell in the leading role was awarded a Gol...
In the 1980s and 1990s Brauner concentrated entirely on his “Jewish Cycle”. Die Spaziergängerin von Sans-Souci (The Passer-by, Jacques Rouffio, 1982), Romy Schneider's last film, is part of the cycle, along with Eine Liebe in Deutschland (A Love in Germany, Andrzej Wajda, 1983). In Blutiger Schnee (i.e. Bloody Snow, Jerzy Hoffman, 1984) Brauner's d...
Jul 7, 2019 · The Media Library in our Reading Room presents a selection of the work of one of the most successful film producers in German post-war history. Artur Brauner was born in Łódź in 1918 as Abraham Brauner. He fled the Soviet Union in 1940.
Jul 9, 2019 · — German-Jewish film producer Artur Brauner, whose award-winning films include “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” and “Europa Europa,” has died at the age of 100.
Jul 7, 2019 · BERLIN (AP) — Artur Brauner, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor who became one of post-World War II Germany's most prominent film producers, died Sunday at age 100...
Jul 7, 2019 · Artur Brauner, the Polish-born Holocaust survivor who became one of Germany's most successful and acclaimed movie moguls, has died. He was 100.
