Ronny Loewy

Project Manager
Cinematography of the Holocaust
Fritz Bauer Institut & Deutsches Filminstitut

Ronny Loewy was born in Tel Aviv in 1946. He studied Sociology in Frankfurt/Main and Hannover. In 1984 he joined the staff of the German Filmmuseum, now German Film Institute/Deutsches Filminstitut in Frankfurt, where he is project manager of "Cinematography of the Holocaust," a program that is run in cooperation with the Fritz Bauer Institute. In 1987 he was curating the exhibition "Von Babelsberg nach Hollywood. Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland" ("From Babelsberg to Hollywood. Film Emigration out of Nazi Germany").

From 1992 to 2005 he was co-publisher of the magazine Filmexil. He has written and published extensively on cinema, on "Film in Exile," ”Holocaust & Film”, “Yiddish Cinema", "Stanley Kubrick", "Max Ophüls", “Helmar Lerski”, “Meyer Levin”, and "Victor Vicas".

Loewy has also made films. He directed THE YIDDISH CINEMA (1983); co-directed ONCE UPON A TIME IN YIDDISHLAND (1992) with Inge Classen; AUSCHWITZ - FIVE DAYS IN NOVEMBER (1995) with Cilly Kugelmann and Hanno Loewy; and WILLI MÜNZENBERG OR THE ART OF PROPAGANDA (1996) with Alexander Bohr.

Loewy is considered one of the worldwide experts on the structure of Stuart Schulberg's film Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today (1948), for which he created a detailed shot list in 1998. This shot list can be found at (www.cine-holocaust.de):

He first met Sandra Schulberg in 2004, when he was asked by the Berlin Film Festival to co-present with her the original German version of the film, Nurnberg und seine Lehre, to the Berlinale audience. Later that year, during a visit to New York, he became the first scholar to examine and assess the historical importance of Stuart Schulberg's personal Nurembergfiles. Subsequently, he alerted Raye Farr at the Holocaust Museum in Washington of the importance of the documents, and a three-way collaboration was born.

Ronny Loewy lives in Frankfurt/Main.