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Lotte H.

Eisner (5 March 1896, in Berlin – 25 November 1983, 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 1936 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, 1896 in a family of a Jewish merchant.

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After the studies in Berlin and Munich, from 1927, 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 1933, to avoid Nazi persecution.

During the WWII she had to hide, but finally got caught and wa