Friedrich Porges was an Austrian-American film director of the silent era, journalist, publisher, screenwriter, author and film critic.
11 Facts About Friedrich Porges
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The son of Ludwig Porges, a banker, and Viktoria Bing, Friedrich Porges became interested in journalism in his youth.
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Friedrich Porges contributed to film and theater publications for example, Allgemeine Theater Zeitung, Vienna, and Die Buhne.
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Friedrich Porges was acting Editor in Chief of Montag Morgen in Berlin.
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Friedrich Porges was the director of numerous movies in the silent film era of the 1920s, having made his directing debut with Die Nacht der Mary Murton and Der Marquis de Bolibar.
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In 1925, Friedrich Porges founded and was Editor in Chief until 1938 of the popular Austrian weekly magazine, Mein Film - Illustrierte Film und Kinorundschau.
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Just prior to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938, Friedrich Porges, who was Jewish, was able to emigrate from Vienna via Switzerland to London, and from there to the United States.
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Friedrich Porges began his decades-long reporting for the publication Aufbau, New York, for the "Westkuste" section of which he wrote about general political and cultural subjects of California.
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Friedrich Porges had his own regular column therein, "Man About Hollywood," devoted to film.
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Friedrich Porges was a founding member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, of which he was elected president three times.
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Friedrich Porges was married from 1913 until his death in 1978 to Helene Matzner, who emigrated with him to the US.