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Lotte H. Eisner (5 March , in Berlin – 25 November , in Paris) was a German-French writer, film critic, archivist and curator. Eisner worked initially as a film critic in Berlin, then in Paris where in she met Henri Langlois with whom she founded the Cinémathèque Française.

She is best known for her book on German Expressionist cinema The Haunted Screen.

Biography

Born as Lotte Henriette Eisner in Berlin on March 5, in a family of a Jewish merchant.

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After the studies in Berlin and Munich, from , she worked as a theater and film critic for German newspapers writing among others to Film-Kurier, daily film newspaper published in Berlin at the time.

As a person of Jewish descent, she had to flee Germany to France in , to avoid Nazi persecution. During the WWII she had to hide, but finally got caught and was interned in the French concentration camp at the town of Gurs in Aquitaine, France.

She managed to survive the war and after the Liberation she returned to Paris. She worked closely with Henri Langlois, the founder of the Cinémathèque Française, where she was as a chief archivist from until her retirement in

Lotte H. Eisner continued to write to the monthly Cahiers du Cinéma and La Revue du Cinéma.

Lotte eisner biography of rory Eisler, Riane —. Please login or register with De Gruyter to order this product. Women in world history. In , Adolf Hitler 's Nazis seized power in Germany.

She is the author of an important film history book The Haunted Screen about the German Expressionism Cinema as a premonition of the Nazi period to come in Germany (ISBN ).

In at the news she is seriously ill and might die, the German film director Werner Herzog walked from Munich to Paris to bring a change in a string of events surrounding her.

The experience is recounted in Herzog's book Of Walking in Ice.

She was made a member of the French Legion of Honor in

Lotte H. Eisner died in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, on November 25,

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