Richard Löwenbein | |
Birth Date: | 29 June 1894 |
Birth Place: | Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
Death Place: | Auschwitz, Occupied Poland |
Occupation: | Director, Writer |
Yearsactive: | 1914–1933 (film) |
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.