Richard Löwenbein
Austrian film director and screenwriter
Intro | Austrian film director and screenwriter | |
Places | Austria | |
was | Film director Screenwriter Film producer Production designer | |
Work field | Creativity Film, TV, Stage & Radio | |
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Birth | 29 June 1894, Vienna, Austria | |
Death | 5 September 1943Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany (aged 49 years) | |
Star sign | Cancer |
Richard Löwenbein (1894–1943) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He was active in the German film industry during the Weimar Republic. The Jewish Löwenbein left Germany for France following the Nazi Party's rise to power in 1933. After Germany occupied France in 1940 he was arrested and held at the Drancy internment camp before being transported to Auschwitz where he was killed.