Lotta Henrietta Eisner ( German: Lotte Henriette Eisner ; March 5, 1896 , Berlin - November 25, 1983 , Paris ) - film critic, film historian, one of the largest specialists in German expressionism .
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Biography
Born in Berlin in the family of a Jewish businessman. In 1927, her first reviews were published in the Berlin film Courier, and she became "the first female film critic in Germany" [4] .
In 1933, she immigrated from Germany to France, fleeing Nazi persecution. During the occupation of France by fascist Germany, she managed to hide for some time, but in the end she was interned in a camp located in the south of France, in the city of Gürs . After the liberation of France, she returned to Paris.
Lotta Eisner became the right-hand man of Henri Langlois , one of the founders of the French Cinematheque - where she worked as head of the archive for 30 years (from 1945 to 1975). Among other things, the French Cinematheque owes her an extensive collection of German films and rare movie cameras from the collection of Will Day - they were acquired with her direct participation.
Lotta Eisner wrote articles and reviews for many movie magazines, including Caillette du Cinema , which has become a landmark publication in the history of the French New Wave . In the 1970s encouraged and inspired the directors of the new German cinema .
In 1974, upon learning that Lotta Eisner was seriously ill, the director Werner Herzog walked 400 miles from Munich to Paris, with a map and a compass in his hands, "spending the night under the bridges" to buy her life with his victim [5] .
In 1982, Lotte Eisner was awarded the Legion of Honor . She died on November 25, 1983. Wim Wenders dedicated the movie " Paris, Texas " (1984) to her memory.
Lotta Eisner is the author of fundamental monographs on Fritz Lang and on Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau . Her main work is The Demonic Screen (1955), the second classical study of German film expressionism along with Siegfried Krakauer's book From Caligari to Hitler.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118702491 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 filmportal.de - 2005.
- ↑ Demonic screen. Chapters from the book. "Tired death." “The Nibelungs.” - Metropolis. - Adventure films of Fritz Lang. - Number 58
- ↑ Herzog on Herzog (interview book). Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 0-571-20708-1 .