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Lotte H. Eisner
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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.
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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. 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 c