Richard Löwenbein (1894–1943) was an Austrian
screenwriter and
film director. He was active in the
German film industry during the
Weimar Republic
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. The
Jewish
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Löwenbein left Germany for France following the
Nazi Party
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's rise to power in 1933. After Germany
occupied France
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in 1940 he was arrested and held at the
Drancy internment camp
Drancy internment camp was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps during the German occupation of France during World War II. Originally conceived and built as a modernist urban commu ...
before being transported to
Auschwitz where he was killed.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Amazon'' (1921)
* ''
Rose of the Asphalt Streets'' (1922)
* ''
The Fire Ship'' (1922)
* ''
The Golden Net'' (1922)
* ''
Two Worlds'' (1922)
* ''
The Diadem of the Czarina'' (1922)
* ''
The Young Man from the Ragtrade
''The Young Man from the Ragtrade'' (german: Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion) is a 1926 German silent comedy film directed by Richard Löwenbein and starring Curt Bois, Maria Paudler, and Frida Richard. Bois' character of an ambitious young ma ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Crazy Countess'' (1928)
* ''
Misled Youth'' (1929)
References
Bibliography
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External links
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1894 births
1943 deaths
Film people from Vienna
Austrian Jews who died in the Holocaust
Austrian film directors
Austrian emigrants to Germany
Austrian emigrants to France
Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss
20th-century Austrian screenwriters
20th-century Austrian male writers
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