In brief
Ingo Preminger is an Austrian-born American film producer and literary agent known for producing the influential satirical film MASH (1970) and for representing blacklisted screenwriters during the Hollywood blacklist era. His efforts helped sustain the careers of writers such as Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., and he played a notable role in challenging the blacklist through Trumbo's credited screenplay for Exodus (1960).
Born Ingwald Preminger on February 25, 1911, in Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), he was raised in Vienna and earned a law degree from the University of Vienna. As a Jew facing persecution under the rising Nazi regime, he fled Austria in 1938 with his wife Kate Musil (whom he married in 1936) and young daughter, eventually reaching the United States with assistance from his older brother, director Otto Preminger. In New York, Preminger ran a paint-supply business for nine years before relocating to Los Angeles in 1947 to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.
Ingo Preminger was born on February 25, 1911, in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine). He was the younger brother of filmmaker Otto Preminger and was raised in Vienna as part of a Jewish family. In Vienna, he earned a law degree from the University of Vienna and practiced law there.
Ingo Preminger fled Austria with his family in 1938 following the Nazi annexation of the country, escaping the rise of Nazism that blighted his legal career as a Jew. He left with his wife, Katharina "Kate" Musil, whom he had married in 1936, and their young daughter, initially crossing into Czechoslovakia before reaching the United States with assistance from his brother Otto Preminger.
