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Michael Lechner von Leheneck‬‬‬

Michael Lechner von Leheneck Born	Peter Michael Lechner von Leheneck 5 January 1956 (age 56) Salzburg, Austria Years active	1986 – present Spouse(s)	Nelida Isabel Countess del Manzano y Montesinos (divorced) Peter Michael Lechner von Leheneck (born 5 January 1956) is a former Austrian publisher and media entrepreneur who turned into Hollywood producer, best known for producing the 2013 Luc Besson film, Liszt & Chopin in Paris, with Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman starring and Luc Besson directing.

Personal life and family Lechner von Leheneck was born in 1956 in Salzburg, Austria, into the Tyrolean noble family Lechner von Leheneck and grew up in Austria and Italy. He is fluent in English, German, French, and speaks Italian. Michael holds a Doctor in Law degree from his studies at University of Salzburg, and a diploma in Political Science and Journalism. He is the second of three sons of Johann Georg Lechner von Leheneck, and Ingrid Anita Haagen daughter of Gustav Haagen, Austrian mining industrial. Lechner von Leheneck holds Austrian citizenship. His grandmother Auguste Neuner von Breitenegg, is the Austrian writer and novelist Auguste Lechner [1] who is with more than one million sold books one of the most successful writers in German youth literature and holds the „Premio Europeo di Letteratura Giovanile“ for her lifetime work.

Career While living as a child between the family places in Toscany, Italy and in Salzburg, Austria, his grandfather a publisher, his grandmother a novelist and his father a book distributor Michael himself then became a book publisher founding when 23 years old ML Verlag, a young fashion and art publishing company, and later Eurobooks[2] a low price mass market book publishing group specialized in high print runs selling as permanent supplier of retail chains like Aldi, Tschibo, Karstadt, Kaufhof, Hugendubel, Weltbild or Libro huge print runs at very low price becoming one of Europe’s leading industrial book publishing groups.[3] After being involved in a legal battle him trying to takeover Austrian-German Libro AG retail group [4] and his publishing group and himself in 2001 becoming object of a smear campaign in press and media Lechner von Leheneck sold and liquidated Eurobooks in 2003 and became a half-retired private investor in the media and entertainment industry which brought him in 2005 with a German government delegation to China where he started to invest into China’s new entertainment and television industry. In 2007 he founded Chinawood an international entertainment group based in Shanghai with offices in Hong Kong, Paris and in Hollywood, Los Angeles focusing on financing and developing Hollywood produced movies together with Chinese film groups and Chinese film funds. He controls a film fund in Hong Kong and is together with French filmmaker Luc Besson producer of Luc Besson’s latest film “Liszt and Chopin in Paris" which is announced for 2013, starring Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman in it. [5] [edit]

See also ▪	Lechner von Leheneck family line

References 1.	Literatur von und über Auguste Lechner im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek 2.	^ Eurobooks: Erfolg mit Massenware, Populaere Buecher zu Minipreisen, Handelsblatt, No 199, October 14, 1999, page 29. 3.	^ Do, “Buecher als Selbsbedienungs-Ware fuer die Massenmaerkte", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No 226, September 29, 1999, page W 8. 4.	^ "Eurobooks – Wer bietet mehr?". Format 25 / 01 FORMAT 67, 2001.

External links ▪	Michael Lechner von Leheneck at the Internet Movie Database ▪	Lechner von Leheneck at the Wikipedia in Austrian Nobility