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Mankiewicz. Johanna was the mother of Herman J. Mankiewicz playwright and film writer and, 20th Century Fox producer Joe Mankiewicz.
Johanna Blumenau born 1836 in Hamelin, Hamelin-Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, Germany genealogy record - Ancestry®.
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was born on November 7, 1897, in New York City, New York, the United States, into a Jewish family of German ancestry. His Berlin-born father, Franz Mankiewicz, had immigrated to New York from Hamburg in 1892 with his wife, Johanna Blumenau, a seamstress.
Nov 7, 2013 · Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was born in New York to Franz Mankiewicz and the former Johanna Blumenau, both of them German-born Jewish immigrants. Johanna was a dressmaker, and Franz an editor and teacher who moved the family to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, when he received a job editing a German-language newspaper there.
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In New York he met his wife, Johanna Blumenau, a seamstress from the German-speaking Kurland region of Latvia.: 21 The family lived first in New York, then moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where Herman's father accepted a teaching position.
Feb 6, 1993 · Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was born on Feb. 11, 1909, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the third child of Frank Mankiewicz and the former Johanna Blumenau, both immigrants from Germany.
Biography: Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was born on February 11, 1909, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His parents, Frank Mankiewicz and Johanna Blumenau, also had an older son, Herman Mankiewicz. Mankiewicz went to a local grade school and completed high school at age 15.