Hans Albers
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Hans Philipp August Albers (September 22, 1891 – July 24, 1960) was a German
actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
, the son of a butcher, and grew up in the district of St. Georg
. He was seriously interested in acting by his late teens and took acting classes without the knowledge of his parents. In 1915 Albers was drafted to serve in the German Army
in World War I
, but was wounded early on. After the war Albers moved to Berlin, where he found work as a comedic actor in various Weimar-Era Berlin theatres. His breakthrough performance was that of a waiter in the play Verbrecher (Criminals). It was also in Berlin that Albers began a long-term relationship with half-Jewish actress Hansi Burg (1898-1975). The relationship ended only when he died in 1960.
After roles in over one hundred silent film
s, Albers starred in the first German talkie Die Nacht gehört uns (The Night Belongs to Us) in 1929
. Soon thereafter, Albers played big-mouthed strong man Mazeppa alongside Marlene Dietrich
in her star-making classic Der blaue Engel
(The Blue Angel). Albers himself shot to fame in 1930 with the movie Der Greifer and constantly enhanced his star status with similar daredevil roles in the 1930s. He was probably at his best when teamed-up with fellow German movie legend Heinz Rühmann
, as in Bomben auf Monte Carlo
(1931) and Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war (1937). Many of Albers' songs from his movies became huge hits and some even remain popular to this day.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Albers and his Jewish girlfriend Hansi Burg moved to Starnberger See in Bavaria
. While Albers himself never needed to show public support for the Nazi regime, he became the most popular actor under Nazi rule. The actor nevertheless, although being a party member, avoided an overly close association in public. As the ultimate sign of his popularity, the Nazis even silently accepted his relationship with Hansi Burg for a long time. But Albers finally gave in to the pressure. Hansi Burg went to Switzerland
and then to Great Britain
in 1939, but they secretly remained a couple with him even managing to send her financial support. They were reunited after the war, when she returned to Germany in a British uniform.
In 1943, Albers was paid a huge sum of money to star in Ufa's big-budgeted anniversary picture Münchhausen
but was careful not to give the impression that he was endorsing the National Socialist regime, which was indeed, never asked of him. Also in 1943, Albers starred in another classic German film Große Freiheit Nr. 7
with actress Ilse Werner
. Some of the scenes are said to have been be shot in Prague
because of bomb damage to Hamburg. The sailing ship "Padua" for the outdoor scenes of the film has survived under Soviet and Russian flag until this day as "Krusenstern".
After World War II, well-funded Albers avoided the financial plight and professional banning many actors faced on account of his association with Hansi Burg. Nevertheless, German "heroes" were considered undesirable by the occupation government that wanted to promote their own. This accounted for a major break in his career and made him hard to cast. Eventually he found an opening with respectful wisdom-with-age type character parts with some public acclaim, but with these never again enjoyed the huge stardom of the 1930s and early 1940s. By the early 1950s, his age finally showed and his powerful presence and freshness was almost gone. This was promoted by his increasing alcoholism during the 1950s. Yet he remained active in movies until the very end. Albers died in 1960 in a sanatorium near the Starnberg
See of internal bleedings. The whole nation mourned his loss.
Taking a position in Germany that roughly corresponds with that of John Wayne
in the USA, Albers' name will forever be closely associated with the North German port city of Hamburg
, and especially the Hamburg neighbourhood of St. Pauli
, where there is a square named "Hans-Albers-Platz". Today he is probably more known for his music than his films, and his music is still widely-known in modern Germany, even among young people. Outside of Northern Europe, however, Albers remains virtually unknown, although the image of an older man in a seaman's cap and raincoat playing accordion and singing may be recognised by many outside of Germany, even if they don't know that this image is based on Hans Albers. As a case in point, McDonald's
used such an image in an American television ad campaign in 1986. In reality, Albers had no experience on the water, this being restricted to a one-day trip to Heligoland
.
Many of Albers' songs were humorous tales of drunken, womanizing sailors on shore-leave, with double entendres such as "It hurts the first time, but with time, you get used to it" in reference to a girl falling in love for the first time. Albers' songs were often peppered with expressions in Low German
, which is spoken in Northern Germany. His most famous song is by far "Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins," ("On the Reeperbahn
at half past midnight") which has become the unofficial anthem of the colourful neighbourhood of St. Pauli. The Hans-Albers-Platz, one block south of the Reeperbahn, has a statue of Albers, by the German artist Jörg Immendorff
.
1932
1933
1936
1937
1939
1944
1952
1954
1957
1959
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century.
Life and work
Hans Albers was born in HamburgHamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, the son of a butcher, and grew up in the district of St. Georg
St. Georg, Hamburg
St. Georg is a central quarter in the borough Hamburg-Mitte of Hamburg, Germany. In 2006 the population was 10,551.-History:In 1410 the articles 17 and 18 of a contract between the Senate and the citizens were regulating the accommodation of the patients in the hospital St. Georg . This hospital...
. He was seriously interested in acting by his late teens and took acting classes without the knowledge of his parents. In 1915 Albers was drafted to serve in the German Army
German Army (German Empire)
The German Army was the name given the combined land forces of the German Empire, also known as the National Army , Imperial Army or Imperial German Army. The term "Deutsches Heer" is also used for the modern German Army, the land component of the German Bundeswehr...
in World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
, but was wounded early on. After the war Albers moved to Berlin, where he found work as a comedic actor in various Weimar-Era Berlin theatres. His breakthrough performance was that of a waiter in the play Verbrecher (Criminals). It was also in Berlin that Albers began a long-term relationship with half-Jewish actress Hansi Burg (1898-1975). The relationship ended only when he died in 1960.
After roles in over one hundred silent film
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
s, Albers starred in the first German talkie Die Nacht gehört uns (The Night Belongs to Us) in 1929
1929 in film
-Events:The days of the silent film are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound is on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona is released. The film is the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors....
. Soon thereafter, Albers played big-mouthed strong man Mazeppa alongside Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
in her star-making classic Der blaue Engel
Der blaue Engel
The Blue Angel is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930, based on Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat. The film is considered to be the first major German sound film and it brought world fame to actress Marlene Dietrich...
(The Blue Angel). Albers himself shot to fame in 1930 with the movie Der Greifer and constantly enhanced his star status with similar daredevil roles in the 1930s. He was probably at his best when teamed-up with fellow German movie legend Heinz Rühmann
Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...
, as in Bomben auf Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo Madnes
Monte Carlo Madnes is a 1931 German musical comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Hans Albers, Anna Sten and Heinz Rühmann. It is based on the 1930 novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen. A separate English language version Monte Carlo Madness and a French version Le...
(1931) and Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war (1937). Many of Albers' songs from his movies became huge hits and some even remain popular to this day.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Albers and his Jewish girlfriend Hansi Burg moved to Starnberger See in Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
. While Albers himself never needed to show public support for the Nazi regime, he became the most popular actor under Nazi rule. The actor nevertheless, although being a party member, avoided an overly close association in public. As the ultimate sign of his popularity, the Nazis even silently accepted his relationship with Hansi Burg for a long time. But Albers finally gave in to the pressure. Hansi Burg went to Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
and then to Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
in 1939, but they secretly remained a couple with him even managing to send her financial support. They were reunited after the war, when she returned to Germany in a British uniform.
In 1943, Albers was paid a huge sum of money to star in Ufa's big-budgeted anniversary picture Münchhausen
Münchhausen (1943 film)
Münchhausen is a 1943 fantasy comedy film directed by Josef von Báky, a prominent director who remained in Germany under the Nazi regime. Despite being made in Nazi Germany, this film is noted for the way in which it was able to avoid the politics of the time...
but was careful not to give the impression that he was endorsing the National Socialist regime, which was indeed, never asked of him. Also in 1943, Albers starred in another classic German film Große Freiheit Nr. 7
Große Freiheit Nr. 7
Große Freiheit Nr. 7 is a 1944 German musical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner. It was named after Große Freiheit , a street next to Hamburg's Reeperbahn road in the St...
with actress Ilse Werner
Ilse Werner
Ilse Werner was an actress and singer. She was born to a Dutch father and a German mother and was a Dutch citizen by birth...
. Some of the scenes are said to have been be shot in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
because of bomb damage to Hamburg. The sailing ship "Padua" for the outdoor scenes of the film has survived under Soviet and Russian flag until this day as "Krusenstern".
After World War II, well-funded Albers avoided the financial plight and professional banning many actors faced on account of his association with Hansi Burg. Nevertheless, German "heroes" were considered undesirable by the occupation government that wanted to promote their own. This accounted for a major break in his career and made him hard to cast. Eventually he found an opening with respectful wisdom-with-age type character parts with some public acclaim, but with these never again enjoyed the huge stardom of the 1930s and early 1940s. By the early 1950s, his age finally showed and his powerful presence and freshness was almost gone. This was promoted by his increasing alcoholism during the 1950s. Yet he remained active in movies until the very end. Albers died in 1960 in a sanatorium near the Starnberg
Starnberg
The city of Starnberg is in Bavaria, Germany, some 30 km south-west of Munich. It lies at the north end of Lake Starnberg, in the heart of the "Five Lakes Country", and serves as capital of the district of Starnberg...
See of internal bleedings. The whole nation mourned his loss.
Taking a position in Germany that roughly corresponds with that of John Wayne
John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...
in the USA, Albers' name will forever be closely associated with the North German port city of Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, and especially the Hamburg neighbourhood of St. Pauli
St. Pauli
St. Pauli , located in the Hamburg-Mitte borough, is one of the 105 quarters of the city of Hamburg, Germany. Situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, the Landungsbrücken are a northern part of the port of Hamburg. St. Pauli contains a world famous red light district around the street Reeperbahn...
, where there is a square named "Hans-Albers-Platz". Today he is probably more known for his music than his films, and his music is still widely-known in modern Germany, even among young people. Outside of Northern Europe, however, Albers remains virtually unknown, although the image of an older man in a seaman's cap and raincoat playing accordion and singing may be recognised by many outside of Germany, even if they don't know that this image is based on Hans Albers. As a case in point, McDonald's
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
used such an image in an American television ad campaign in 1986. In reality, Albers had no experience on the water, this being restricted to a one-day trip to Heligoland
Heligoland
Heligoland is a small German archipelago in the North Sea.Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands are located in the Heligoland Bight in the south-eastern corner of the North Sea...
.
Many of Albers' songs were humorous tales of drunken, womanizing sailors on shore-leave, with double entendres such as "It hurts the first time, but with time, you get used to it" in reference to a girl falling in love for the first time. Albers' songs were often peppered with expressions in Low German
Low German
Low German or Low Saxon is an Ingvaeonic West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands...
, which is spoken in Northern Germany. His most famous song is by far "Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins," ("On the Reeperbahn
Reeperbahn
The Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife and also the city's red-light district...
at half past midnight") which has become the unofficial anthem of the colourful neighbourhood of St. Pauli. The Hans-Albers-Platz, one block south of the Reeperbahn, has a statue of Albers, by the German artist Jörg Immendorff
Jörg Immendorff
Jörg Immendorff was one of the best known contemporary German painters; he was also a sculptor, stage designer and art professor.- Life and work :...
.
Filmography (selection)
| Title | Year | Director | Co-stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| Der Mut zur Sünde | 1918 | Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers and Robert Leffler | Olga Desmond Olga Desmond Olga Desmond was a German dancer and actress.-Biography:... and Guido Schützendorf |
| Eine Dubarry von heute | 1926 | Alexander Korda Alexander Korda Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born British producer and film director. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films, a film distributing company.-Life and career:The elder brother of filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent... |
Maria Corda, Alfred Abel, Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films... |
| Prinzessin Olala | 1928 | Robert Land | Walter Rilla, Marlene Dietrich |
| Asphalt Asphalt (1929 film) Asphalt is a German silent film. The film was one of the last silent films released in Germany as the world was entering the era of sound film.-Crew:... |
1929 | Joe May Joe May Joe May , born Julius Otto Mandl, was a film director and film producer born in Austria and one of the pioneers of German cinema.... |
Albert Steinrück, Gustav Fröhlich |
| Der rote Kreis Der rote Kreis (1929 film) Der rote Kreis is a 1929 British-German crime film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Fred Louis Lerch, and Stewart Rome.... |
1929 | Frederic Zelnik Frederic Zelnik Frederic Zelnik was one of the most important producers-directors of the German silent cinema. He also appeared on screen as an actor.-Early life and career:... |
Lya Mara Lya Mara Lya Mara was one of the biggest stars of the German silent cinema.Lya Mara was born as Aleksandra Gudowicz in a Polish family in Riga, Livonia. As a young girl she wanted to become a chemist, as then famous Maria Skłodowska-Curie... , Fred Louis Lerch Fred Louis Lerch -Selected filmography:* Rutschbahn * Parisiennes * Der rote Kreis * Der Walzerkönig -External links:... and Stewart Rome Stewart Rome Stewart Rome was a British actor who appeared in more than 150 films between 1913 and 1950. He was born in Newbury, Berkshire in 1886 as Wernham Ryott Gifford but took the stage name of Stewart Rome which was later unsuccessfully contested by Cecil Hepworth who also used the name... |
| Die Nacht gehört uns | 1929 | Carl Froelich | Charlotte Ander, Otto Wallburg |
| Der blaue Engel Der blaue Engel The Blue Angel is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930, based on Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat. The film is considered to be the first major German sound film and it brought world fame to actress Marlene Dietrich... |
1929/30 | Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg — born Jonas Sternberg — was an Austrian-American film director. He is particularly noted for his distinctive mise en scène, use of lighting and soft lens, and seven-film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich.-Youth:Von Sternberg was born Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish... |
Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films... , Emil Jannings Emil Jannings Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar... , Kurt Gerron Kurt Gerron Kurt Gerron was a German Jewish actor and film director.-Life:Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he initially studied medicine but was called up for military service in World War I. Seriously wounded he qualified as a military doctor of the German Army... |
| Der Greifer | 1930 | Richard Eichberg | Charlotte Susa, Eugen Burg |
| Hans in allen Gassen | 1930 | Carl Froelich Carl Froelich Carl August Froelich was a German film pioneer and film director.-Apparatus builder and cameraman:... |
Camilla Horn Camilla Horn Camilla Horn was a former German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions.-Biography:... , Gustav Diessl Gustav Diessl Gustav Diessl was an Austrian artist, and film and stage actor.-Biography:Diessl was born Gustav Karl Balthasar in Vienna. In 1916, he was an extra on different stages in Vienna but was soon recruited into the army for World War I... |
| Bomben auf Monte Carlo Monte Carlo Madnes Monte Carlo Madnes is a 1931 German musical comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Hans Albers, Anna Sten and Heinz Rühmann. It is based on the 1930 novel Bomben auf Monte Carlo by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen. A separate English language version Monte Carlo Madness and a French version Le... |
1931 | Hanns Schwarz | Heinz Rühmann Heinz Rühmann Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s... , Anna Sten Anna Sten Anna Sten was a Ukrainian-born Russian silent film actress and later a Hollywood film star. She began her career in stage plays and films in Russia before travelling to Germany, where she starred in several films... , Peter Lorre Peter Lorre Peter Lorre was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M... |
| Der Draufgänger | 1931 | Richard Eichberg | Martha Eggerth, Leonard Steckel |
| Der weiße Dämon | 1932 | Kurt Gerron Kurt Gerron Kurt Gerron was a German Jewish actor and film director.-Life:Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he initially studied medicine but was called up for military service in World War I. Seriously wounded he qualified as a military doctor of the German Army... |
Gerda Maurus, Peter Lorre Peter Lorre Peter Lorre was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M... |
| Der Sieger | 1932 | Hans Hinrich and Paul Martin | Käthe von Nagy Käthe von Nagy Käthe von Nagy , as Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser; † 20 December 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA) was an Hungarian actress.-Life History and Films:... |
| Quick | 1932 | Robert Siodmak Robert Siodmak Robert Siodmak was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.-Early life:... |
Lilian Harvey Lilian Harvey Lilian Harvey was a British-born actress and singer, long-based in Germany, where she is best known for her role as Christel Weinzinger in Erik Charell's 1931 film Der Kongress tanzt.-Life:... , Paul Hörbiger |
| F.P.1 antwortet nicht F.P.1 F.P.1 antwortet nicht, or F.P.1 Doesn't Respond was the name of a novel written by noted science fiction and fantasy writer/director Kurt Siodmak, best known as the creator of The Wolf Man.... |
1932 | Karl Hartl | Sybille Schmitz Sybille Schmitz Sybille Schmitz was a German actress.-Biography:Schmitz attended an acting school in Cologne and got her first engagement at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1927. Only one year later, she made her film debut with Freie Fahrt , which attracted her first attention from the critics... , Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre Peter Lorre Peter Lorre was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M... |
| Heut kommt's drauf an | 1933 | Kurt Gerron | Luise Rainer, Oscar Karlweis |
| Ein gewisser Herr Gran | 1933 | Gerhard Lamprecht | Albert Bassermann Albert Bassermann Albert Bassermann was a German stage and screen actor.-Career:Bassermann began his acting career in 1887 in his birthplace, Mannheim. He then spent four years at the Hoftheater in Meiningen. He then moved to Berlin. From 1899, he worked for Otto Brahm. He began work at the Deutsches Theater... , Walter Rilla, Olga Tschechowa |
| Flüchtlinge Flüchtlinge Flüchtlinge is a 1933 German film depicting Volga German refugees persecuted by the Bolsheviks on the Sino-Russian border in Manchuria in 1928.The film was directed by Gustav Ucicky and starred Hans Albers, Käthe von Nagy and Eugen Klopfer... |
1933 | Gustav Ucicky Gustav Ucicky Gustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s... |
Käthe von Nagy, Eugen Klöpfer, Veit Harlan Veit Harlan Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple... |
| Gold Gold (1934 film) Gold is a 1934 science fiction film directed by Karl Hartl and starring Hans Albers.-Cast:* Hans Albers - Werner Holk* Friedrich Kayßler - Prof... |
1934 | Karl Hartl | Brigitte Helm Brigitte Helm Brigitte Helm was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis.-Career:... , Friedrich Kayßler Friedrich Kayßler Friedrich Kayßler was a German theatre and film actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1913 and 1945.-Biography:... , Lien Deyers |
| Peer Gynt | 1934 | Fritz Wendhausen | Lucie Höflich, Marieluise Claudius, Olga Tschechowa |
| Henker, Frauen und Soldaten Hangmen, women and soldiers Hangmen, Women and Soldiers is a propaganda film made by the German filmmaker Johannes Meyer in 1935. It was produced with the Bavaria film company in Munich. The screenplay was written by Max W... |
1935 | Johannes Meyer | Charlotte Susa, Aribert Wäscher |
| Varieté | 1935 | Nicolas Farkas | Annabella, Attila Hörbiger |
| Savoy-Hotel 217 | 1936 | Gustav Ucicky | Brigitte Horney, Rene Deltgen, Käthe Dorsch |
| Die gelbe Flagge | 1937 | Gerhard Lamprecht | Olga Tschechowa, Dorothea Wieck, Rudolf Klein-Rogge Rudolf Klein-Rogge Friedrich Rudolf Klein-Rogge was a German film actor. Klein-Rogge is known for playing sinister figures in films in the 1920s and 1930s as well as being a main-stay in director Fritz Lang's Weimar-era films.- Biography :... |
| Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war | 1937 | Karl Hartl | Heinz Rühmann, Marieluise Claudius, Paul Bildt |
| Sergeant Berry | 1938 | Herbert Selpin | Alexander Golling, Herbert Hübner |
| Fahrendes Volk | 1938 | Jacques Feyder | Francoise Rosay, Camilla Horn |
| Wasser für Canitoga | 1939 | Herbert Selpin | Charlotte Susa Charlotte Susa -Biography:Susa was born Charlotta Wegmüller near Memel, East Prussia and first appeared at a stage in 1915 at Tilsit. She chose her mothers maiden name "Susa" as her stage name and began a successful career as a singer and actress at different German Opera and Operetta stages, e.g... , Hilde Sessak |
| Ein Mann auf Abwegen | 1939 | Herbert Selpin | Charlotte Thiele, Hilde Weissner |
| Trenck, der Pandur | 1940 | Herbert Selpin | Käthe Dorsch, Sybille Schmitz, Hilde Weissner |
| Carl Peters | 1941 | Herbert Selpin | Herbert Hübner, Fritz Odemar |
| Münchhausen Münchhausen (1943 film) Münchhausen is a 1943 fantasy comedy film directed by Josef von Báky, a prominent director who remained in Germany under the Nazi regime. Despite being made in Nazi Germany, this film is noted for the way in which it was able to avoid the politics of the time... |
1942/43 | Josef von Baky | Brigitte Horney, Ilse Werner, Ferdinand Marian |
| Große Freiheit Nr. 7 Große Freiheit Nr. 7 Große Freiheit Nr. 7 is a 1944 German musical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner. It was named after Große Freiheit , a street next to Hamburg's Reeperbahn road in the St... |
1943/44 | Helmut Käutner | Ilse Werner Ilse Werner Ilse Werner was an actress and singer. She was born to a Dutch father and a German mother and was a Dutch citizen by birth... , Hans Söhnker |
| ...und über uns der Himmel | 1947 | Josef von Baky | Paul Edwin Roth, Lotte Koch |
| Föhn | 1950 | Rolf Hansen | Liselotte Pulver, Adrian Hoven |
| Vom Teufel gejagt | 1950 | Viktor Tourjansky | Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover Lil Dagover Lil Dagover was a German stage, film and television actress whose career spanned nearly six decades.-Early life:... , Heidemarie Hatheyer |
| Blaubart | 1951 | Christian-Jaque | Cecile Aubry, Fritz Kortner |
| Nachts auf den Straßen | 1952 | Rudolf Jugert | Hildegard Knef, Marius Goring Marius Goring Marius Goring CBE was an English stage and cinema actor. He is most often remembered for the four films he did with Powell & Pressburger, particularly as Conductor 71 in A Matter of Life and Death and as Julian Craster in The Red Shoes... |
| Jonny rettet Nebrador | 1953 | Rudolf Jugert | Margot Hielscher, Peter Pasetti |
| Käpt'n Bay-Bay | 1953 | Helmut Käutner | Bum Krüger, Lotte Koch |
| Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins | 1954 | Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Heinz Rühmann, Gustav Knuth |
| Der letzte Mann | 1955 | Harald Braun | Romy Schneider, Rudolf Forster, Joachim Fuchsberger |
| Vor Sonnenuntergang Before Sundown Before Sundown is a 1956 German drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Golden Bear .-Cast:* Hans Albers - Generaldirektor Mathias Clausen* Annemarie Düringer - Inken Peters... |
1956 | Gottfried Reinhardt | Annemarie Düringer, Martin Held |
| I fidanzati della morte | 1957 | Romolo Marcellini | Sylva Koscina, Rik Battaglia |
| Der tolle Bomberg | 1957 | Rolf Thiele | Marion Michael, Gert Fröbe, Harald Juhnke |
| Das Herz von St. Pauli | 1957 | Eugen York | Hansjörg Felmy, Gert Fröbe Gert Fröbe Karl Gerhart Fröbe, better known as Gert Fröbe was a German actor who starred in many films, including the James Bond film Goldfinger as Auric Goldfinger, The Threepenny Opera as Peachum, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Baron Bomburst, and in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz as Hotzenplotz.-Life:Born in... |
| Der Greifer | 1958 | Eugen York | Hansjörg Felmy, Werner Peters, Horst Frank |
| Der Mann im Strom | 1958 | Eugen York | Gina Albert, Hans Nielsen |
| Dreizehn alte Esel | 1958 | Hans Deppe Hans Deppe -Selected filmography:Actor* The Victor * A Blonde's Dream * Two Hearts Beat as One * The Star of Valencia * A Door Opens * Our Flags Lead Us Forward * The Ambassador's Wife... |
Marianne Hoppe, Karin Dor, Werner Peters |
| Kein Engel ist so rein | 1960 | Wolfgang Becker | Sabine Sinjen, Peter Kraus, Horst Frank |
Songs (selection)
1931- Das ist die Liebe der Matrosen (from picture Bomben auf Monte Carlo)
- Kind, du brauchst nicht weinen (from picture Der Draufgänger)
1932
- Flieger, grüß' mit mir die Sonne (from picture F. P. 1 antwortet nicht)
- Hoppla, jetzt komm' ich (from picture Der Sieger)
- Komm' auf die Schaukel, Luise (from stage play Liliom)
- Komm und spiel mit mir (from picture Quick)
1933
- "Mein Gorilla hat 'ne Villa im Zoo" (from picture Heut kommt's drauf an)
1936
- "In meinem Herzen Schatz, da ist für viele Platz" (from picture Savoy-Hotel 217)
1937
- "Jawohl, meine Herrn" [with Heinz Rühmann] (from picture Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war)
1939
- "Good bye, Jonny" (from picture Wasser für Canitoga)
1944
- "La PalomaLa PalomaThis article is about the song. For the American city, see La Paloma, Texas."La Paloma" is a popular song, having been produced and reinterpreted in diverse cultures, settings, arrangements, and recordings over the last 140 years. The song was composed and written by Spanish composer Sebastián...
" (from picture Große Freiheit Nr. 7Große Freiheit Nr. 7Große Freiheit Nr. 7 is a 1944 German musical drama film directed by Helmut Käutner. It was named after Große Freiheit , a street next to Hamburg's Reeperbahn road in the St...
) - "Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins" (from picture Große Freiheit Nr. 7)
1952
- "Kleine weiße Möwe" (from picture Käpt'n Bay-Bay)
- "Nimm mich mit, Kapitän, auf die Reise" (from picture Käpt'n Bay-Bay)
1954
- "Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins" (from picture Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins)
- "Komm auf die Schaukel, Luise" (from picture Auf der Reeperbahn nachts um halb eins)
1957
- "Das Herz von St. Pauli" (from picture Das Herz von St. Pauli)
1959
- "Mein Junge, halt die Füße still" (from picture Dreizehn alte Esel)