Background
Stefan Lorant was born on February 22, 1901, in Budapest, Hungary, to Izrael Reich and Hermine Guttmann.
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István Lóránt
filmmaker photojournalist writer
Stefan Lorant was born on February 22, 1901, in Budapest, Hungary, to Izrael Reich and Hermine Guttmann.
Lorant graduated from high school in Hungary in 1919.
Lorant ventured to Germany at the age of nineteen and found work playing the violin in a silent movie house with the help of Franz Kafka. Beginning in 1920 he worked as a director, camera operator and editor of films in Berlin and Vienna. Among his films was The Life of Mozart. He then turned to journalism and served as editor of Das Magazin in 1925. A year later he became editor in chief of Munchner Illustrierte Presse (Munich Illustrated Press)—a position that lasted until Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933.
His work with the publication would later influence the format of Life magazine in the United States. Although Lorant had known Hitler before, he and other journalists were imprisoned for their editorials. He was released after protests from Hungarian journalists demanding his freedom.
Lorant immigrated to England and became the founding editor of the pictorial magazine Weekly Illustrated. In the following years he wrote a book based on his prison diaries titled I Was Hitler’s Prisoner, became editor-in-chief of London’s Lilliput pocket magazine, and launched Picture Post in 1938.
In the 1940s he immigrated to the United States and issued his first book, on U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln: His Life in Photographs. Later, he compiled books with many photographs on other presidents; these volumes included F.D.R.: A Pictorial Biography, Lincoln: A Picture Story of His Life, The Life of Abraham Lincoln and The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. Lorant also started his own imprint called Authors Edition Inc. He had been working on a multi-part autobiography prior to his death. His other books included The New World, The Glorious Burden: The American Presidency, Pete: The Life of Peter F. Flaherty, My Years in England: Fragment of an Autobiography, The Years before Hitler 1918-1933 and Sieg Heil! (Hail to Victory): An Illustrated History of Germany from Bismarck to Hitler.
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Lorant was married to Niura Norskaja, they gave birth to their son Andi. Lorant then married Laurie Jean Robertson in 1963. They divorced in 1978. That marriage produced two sons - Mark and Christopher.
