Lothar Stark
Lothar Stark ( born September 5, 1876 in Small Strehlitz, Silesia, Germany, † March 31, 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden ) was a German film producer and the distributor.
Life and work
The native Silesians began working as a journalist in Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main. Paul Davidson interested him at the beginning of the 20th century for the film. Strongly focused then until the beginning of the First World War on the work of a film -lender.
In 1915 he founded his own production company, Lothar Stark -Film GmbH, with which he only produced entertainment films. His most ambitious work was created in February 1916, the film adaptation of The Tales of Hoffmann. Towards the end of the war, Stark committed with the German Film Trust defensive league against the dominant market position of competing company UFA. His own production company only began in the Weimar Republic, regularly make films.
With the coming of the Nazi regime fell, the producer of " racial grounds " in trouble. After the anti-Napoleonic drama of the Tyrolean freedom fighter Andreas Hofer The Judas of Tyrol Stark had to temporarily cease at the end of 1933 its production activities. Already this year, the Nazi authorities had issued a tax characteristics on Stark. Obviously he fled this year to Copenhagen. 1935 was the Lothar Stark movie in Berlin to record the film production with the Karl May- adaptation through the desert. This work as well as the two high - consequence Movies The mysterious Mister X and the violets from Potsdamer Platz were staged by director JA Hubler - Kahla. When his half-Jewish identity was uncovered, the Lothar Stark film had to cease production of final.
In January 1938, Stark moved from Copenhagen to London shortly. The hope there pull up a film production, however, smashed. Then he returned two months later back to Copenhagen. When the German army occupied Denmark in 1940, Stark had to go into hiding. On the night of 2 to 3 October 1943 Jews in Denmark managed to escape across the Sound to Sweden. He died six months later.