External links
- Interview with Weniger (2003)
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| Born | 1966 Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Parent(s) | Sigrid Roth, Hans Weniger |
| Alma mater | Hamburg University |
Kay Weniger (born 1966) is an Austrian writer of books on media issues. He published an eight-volume encyclopaedia on international film people.
Weniger is the son of the German stage and film actress Sigrid Roth and the Austrian stage actor Hans Weniger . They left Berlin for Hamburg when he was one year old. Weniger studied the history of art, history and archaeology at the Hamburg University, and gained his doctorate with a thesis titled Wiederaufbau- und Neubauplanung in Hamburg 1945 bis 1950. Städtebauliche Kontinuität oder Wandel?.
Weniger has worked as an editor for several German newspapers, including Die Welt in Bonn and Welt am Sonntag in Hamburg. Initially a specialist in travel, he soon focused on media issues and wrote a huge number of articles on film and film people.
In 2001 he published the eight-volume encyclopaedia "Das grosse Personenlexikon des Films". It contains more than 6100 biographies of all kinds of men and women active in the international film business.
In 2008 he published another reference book, "Zwischen Bühne und Baracke". It contains some 500 biographies on people in theatre, film and the music business who suffered under National Socialist persecution and terror in Europe between 1933 and 1945.
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