Artur Brauner

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Artur Brauner (left) shaking hands with Willy Brandt.

Artur "Atze" Brauner (born Abraham Brauner 1 August 1918) is a Polish film producer and entrepreneur. He was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. With his parents and four siblings, he fled to the Soviet Union and survived the Holocaust. Following the war, he and his brother, Wolf Brauner emigrated to Berlin;[1] his parents and three of his siblings emigrated to Israel. Twelve of his relatives were killed at Babi Yar,[2] just a portion of the 49 who perished at the hands of the Nazis.[3]

As a young man he saw Fritz Lang's film The Testament of Dr. Mabuse that affected him greatly, making him interested in film. In September 1946 he founded the Central Cinema Company or CCC Films in the American sector of Berlin. He prouduced Sag' die Wahrheit, one of the first films produced in Germany after the war, followed by Morituri, which was a commercial failure and threw him into debt. Brauner realised that to produce critically successful films he had to make up their losses by producing critically derided films that were appreciated by the public. He lured back many Germans who had experience in Hollywood such as Robert Siodmak, Lil Dagover and later Fritz Lang who started a revival of Dr. Mabuse.[4]

In 2009, Yad Vashem received a donation of 21 of Brauner's productions having to do with the Holocaust, including Die Weiße Rose, The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (Der 20. Juli) and Man and Beast (Mensch und Bestie). In 2010, Yad Vashem opened a media center in Brauner's name.[5] Brauner called it the "crowning achievement of my film career".

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Filmography (selected)

Publications

"Mich gibt's nur einmal" (autobiography). Munich, Berlin: Herbig (1976)

Awards

References

  1. ^ Bock, Hans-Michael and Bergfelder, Tim: The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema Berghahn Books. p. 60
  2. ^ Boston, William: "Burying the Past" Time (October 1, 2003). Retrieved February 29, 2012
  3. ^ Hans Schmid, "Old Atze und der Schatz im Silbersee" Heise Online. (August 23, 2008) Retrieved March 1, 2012 (German)
  4. ^ Kalat, David: German Trash Cinema: The Story of Artur Brauner in: The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse: A Study of the Twelve Films and Five Novels. McFarland (2005), pp. 131-142
  5. ^ "German film producer to receive Yad Vashem honour" Deutsche Presse-Agentur (2010). Retrieved March 1, 2012

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