Ludwig Berger (director)
Ludwig Berger | |
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| Born | 6 January 1892 |
| Died | 18 May 1969 (aged 77) Schlangenbad, West Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1920–1969 |
Ludwig Berger (born Ludwig Bamberger; 6 January 1892 – 18 May 1969) was a German-Jewish[1] film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed more than 30 films between 1920 and 1969. Berger began working in the German film industry during the Weimar Republic. At Decla-Bioscop and later UFA he established a reputation as a leading director of silent films. He emigrated to Hollywood, but was unable to establish himself and returned to Europe. He subsequently worked both in France and Germany. He was a member of the jury at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]
Berger also translated a few plays of Shakespeare, including Cymbeline, Hamlet, and Timon of Athens.[3] His elder brother was the set designer Rudolf Bamberger who was killed in 1945.
Selected filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]- The Mayor of Zalamea (1920)
- The Story of Christine von Herre (1921)
- A Glass of Water (1923)
- The Lost Shoe (1923)
- A Waltz Dream (1925)
- The Master of Nuremberg (1927)
- Queen Louise (dir. Karl Grune, 1927)
- Sins of the Fathers (1928)
- The Woman from Moscow (1928)
- The Burning Heart (1929)
- The Vagabond King (1930)
- Playboy of Paris (1930)
- The Little Cafe (1931)
- I by Day, You by Night (1932)
- Early to Bed (1933)
- Waltz War (1933)
- Court Waltzes (1933)
- Pygmalion (1937)
- Three Waltzes (1938)
- Ergens in Nederland (1940)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- The Immortal Face (1947)
- Ballerina (1950)
- Stresemann (dir. Alfred Braun, 1957)
Television
[edit]- 1954: Die Spieler — based on The Gamblers by Nikolai Gogol
- 1954: Der Schauspieldirektor — based on Der Schauspieldirektor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1955: Frau Mozart
- 1955: Undine — based on Ondine by Jean Giraudoux
- 1957: Der Tod des Sokrates — based on Phaedo by Plato
- 1958: Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung — based on The Taming of the Shrew
- 1958: Was ihr wollt — based on Twelfth Night
- 1958: Viel Lärm um nichts — based on Much Ado About Nothing
- 1958: Wie es euch gefällt — based on As You Like It
- 1958: Maß für Maß — based on Measure for Measure
- 1958: Ein Sommernachtstraum — based on A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 1959: Das Paradies und die Peri — based on Paradise and the Peri and Lalla-Rookh
- 1960: Die Nacht in Zaandam
- 1961: Hermann und Dorothea — based on Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1962: Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind — based on a play by Ferdinand Raimund
- 1964: Ottiliens Tollheiten
- 1967: Samen von Kraut und Unkraut – Drei Szenen aus der Geschichte Hessens
- 1968: Odysseus auf Ogygia — based on a play by Fritz von Unruh
- 1969: Demetrius (co-director: Heribert Wenk) — based on Demetrius by Friedrich Schiller
References
[edit]- ^ Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211
- ^ "6th Berlin International Film Festival: Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 25 December 2009.
- ^ Blinn, Hansjürgen; Schmidt, Wolf Gerhard (2003). Shakespeare-deutsch: Bibliographie der Übersetzungen und Bearbeitungen (in German). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag. ISBN 3503061932. OCLC 53376469.
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- 1892 births
- 1969 deaths
- 20th-century German male actors
- German theatre directors
- German male film actors
- Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Mass media people from Mainz
- People from Rhenish Hesse
- Translators of William Shakespeare
- German male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century German dramatists and playwrights
- German male poets
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
- 20th-century German screenwriters
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- German people of Belgian descent
- Male actors from Rhineland-Palatinate