Kay Weniger (born in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

in 1966) is an Austrian writer of books on media issues. He published an eight-volume encyclopaedia on international film people.

Biography

Weniger is the son of the German stage and film actress and the Austrian stage actor . They left

for

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when he was one year old. Weniger studied the history of art, history and archaeology at the Hamburg University, and gained his

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with a

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titled ''Wiederaufbau- und Neubauplanung in Hamburg 1945 bis 1950. Städtebauliche Kontinuität oder Wandel?''.

Career

Weniger has worked as an editor for several German newspapers, including ''

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'' in

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and ''

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'' in Hamburg. Initially a specialist in travel, he soon focused on media issues and wrote a huge number of articles on film and film people. In 2001 he published the eight-volume encyclopaedia "''Das grosse Personenlexikon des Films''". It contains more than 6100 biographies of all kinds of men and women active in the international film business. In 2008 he published another reference book, "''Zwischen Bühne und Baracke''". It contains some 500 biographies on people in theatre, film and the music business who suffered under

National Socialist Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...

persecution and terror in Europe between 1933 and 1945.

Works

* ''Das große Personenlexikon des Films. Die Schauspieler, Regisseure, Kameraleute, Produzenten, Komponisten, Drehbuchautoren, Filmarchitekten, Ausstatter, Kostümbildner, Cutter, Tontechniker, Maskenbildner und Special Effects Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts''. 8 Bände. Schwarzkopf und Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, . * ''Zwischen Bühne und Baracke. Lexikon der verfolgten Theater-, Film- und Musikkünstler 1933 bis 1945''. Mit einem Geleitwort von

Paul Spiegel Paul Spiegel (31 December 1937, in Warendorf, Germany – 30 April 2006, in Düsseldorf, Germany) was leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) and the main spokesman of the German Jews. He was widely ...

. Metropol, Berlin 2008, . *

External links

Interview with Weniger
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