Julius Aussenberg

Julius Außenberg (14 March 1887 – 22 August 1955), also known as Julius Aussenberg, was an Austrian film producer, finance manager, and film production manager.

Biography[]

Julius Außenberg was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, the son of Adolf Eisig Außenberg (1849–1910) and Bertha Außenberg (née Hutter, c. 1852–1925). He had 8 siblings.

Aussenberg at first worked as an industrialist,^[1] but changed careers to the film industry. In 1924 he became the European representative of the Hollywood production company Fox. In 1926 Assenberg accompanied F. W. Murnau to Hollywood to shoot, where Murnau was directing the Fox Film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Back in Germany the following year, he was responsible for producing Walter Ruttmann's famous Berlin Documentary Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis.

Aussenberg became Head Producer at Deutsche Lichtspiel-syndikat production company. At the same time, he worked on his own production company Atlantis-Film, and he was a partner in Joe Mays May-Film A.G., and in 1930 he took part in Alexander Korda's London-Film as its General Representative for Europe und Overseas. When Adolf Hitler assumed power in 1933, Julius Aussenberg had just planned the production of two films with Elisabeth Bergner which were never filmed. That same year, Aussenberg and his partner, actress Ossi Oswalda, fled from Germany and settled in Czechoslovakia, where he produced few films.

Aussenbergs first wife was Hilda Fuehrling, who he had four children with; Adolf (1914–1944), who became a painter and died in the Holocaust,^[2] Elli (1918–2006), Erich, and Walter. They divorced, and he next married to Zdenka Fantlová. Aussenbergs stepson was the director Thomas Fantl, and producer Jan Fantl is Aussenbergs step-grandson.

Filmography[]

• 1926: Die Abenteuer eines Zehnmarkscheins
• 1926: Madame Wants No Children
• 1926: Der Sohn der Hagar
• 1927: Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis
• 1934: Volha v plamenech

• 1934: Hudba srdci
• 1935: Her Highness Dances the Waltz
• 1936: Na'e jedenáctka

References[]

Literature[]

• Kay Weniger: Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben …. Lexikon der aus Deutschland und Österreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945. Eine Gesamtübersicht. S. 79, ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

External links[]

• Julius Aussenberg at IMDb