Eugene Burg
Eugen Burg (born January 6, 1871 as Eugen Hirschburg in Berlin ; † April 17, 1944 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German actor , writer and film director .
Life
Theater career
Eugen Burg was supposed to be a businessman , but he left his native Berlin in the 1890s to pursue a career on stage in Vienna . There he received an acting training from Maximilian Streben (1868-1891), the then director of the Sulkowsky private theater in the Viennese suburb of Matzleinsdorf . Around the same time, Max Reinhardt , who had a lifelong friendship with Eugen Burg, also took acting lessons from Maximilian Streben. At the same time, Eugen Burg and Max Reinhardt belonged to a group of young people who were enthusiastic about theater and who called themselves the "Leopoldstadtlers", as most of them were based in Leopoldstadt in Vienna . Luis Taufstein , with whom Eugen Burg wrote several plays , also belonged to this group of theater enthusiasts .
Eugen Burg specialized in the role of the young lover and bon vivant . He made his stage debut in 1889 in the Bohemian spa town of Franzensbad in the comedy Die Poacher by Theodor Herzl , in the role of Max von Thürmer. In the years after his stage debut, Eugen Burg can be seen on various provincial stages (Bielitz, Wiener Neustadt, Bad Ischl, Reichenberg, Troppau). In 1893 Eugen Burg was briefly engaged at the Jantsch Theater in Vienna , but in the summer of 1894 he followed the call of director and theater director Otto Brahm to the German Theater in Berlin, where Eugen Burg performed with Joseph Kainz and Agnes Sorma, among others, until 1896 . A renewed engagement in Vienna ( Raimund Theater , 1900–1904), followed a season at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, which he left again in 1905 to return to the Deutsches Theater , which at that time was already directed by his childhood friend Max Reinhardt . Between 1908 and 1909 Eugen Burg appeared at the Deutsches Theater in New York, where he was also the chief director.
From 1910 Eugen Burg was permanently resident in Berlin and played on several Berlin theaters ( Neues Schauspielhaus , Berlin Theater , Trianon Theater , Residenz Theater , Rotter Theaters , German Art Theater, Small Theater, Komische Oper ). From 1935, after a last engagement at the theater in Behrenstrasse , he remained unemployed, classified by the Nazis as a “full Jew”.
Filmmaking
Burg was already 43 years old and a well-known stage actor when he stood in front of the camera for the Berlin PAGU for the first time in 1914 . 90 other silent films , in which he occasionally directed between 1916 and 1920, followed with Der Greifer 1930, the first sound film. In addition to his student and protégé Hans Albers , Burg appeared here in the role of chief inspector at Scotland Yard .
After the National Socialists came to power in 1933 , Burg lost his involvement with Ufa because of his Jewry and was expelled from the Reichstheaterkammer and Reichsfilmkammer by the Reichsfachschaft Film and thus banned from working, which ended his career abruptly. He fled to Holland and was arrested there after the German invasion.
Biographical Notes
Eugen Burg was married to the coloratura and stage singer Emmy Burg-Raabe (born 1874, died July 6, 1927 in Berlin), who later worked as a concert singer and finally as a singing teacher. He was the father of the actress Hansi Burg , who had been Hans Albers' partner since 1925 .
Burg was deported from Berlin to Theresienstadt concentration camp on January 28, 1943, together with his second wife . Eugen Burg was seriously ill and almost blind and died at the age of 73 in the home for the blind in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Plays (selection)
- 1915: Manorial servant wanted . Schwank in three acts by Eugen Burg and Luis Taufstein.
- 1916: Everything as a favor . Schwank in three acts by Eugen Burg and Louis Taufstein.
- 1917: where love falls . Schwank in three acts by Eugen Burg and Otto Härting.
- 1918: Spray devil . Schwank in three acts by Eugen Burg and Otto Härting.
- 1919: The vacation trip . Schwank in three acts by Eugen Burg and Fritz Wilding.
Filmography
as an actor, unless otherwise stated
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literature
- Matthias Wegner: Hans Albers . Hamburg 2005.
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 606.
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 74.
Web links
- Literature by and about Eugen Burg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
- Eugen Burg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Eugen Burg at filmportal.de
- Photo and short biography on Cyranos.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to the Kay Less film archive , based on the recently released documents from the Theresienstadt Memorial. The previously believed date of "November 15th" is incorrect.
- ^ Ludwig Eisenberg: Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century. List, Leipzig, p. 141 .
- ↑ There are letters from Max Reinhardt to Eugen Burg in the Theater History Collection of the Free University of Berlin: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we07/institut/sammlungen/Sammlung_Walter_Unruh/index.html
- ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Neues Wiener Journal, 1930-10-12, page 18. Retrieved on February 7, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Kay Less : Between the stage and the barrack. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 74.
- ^ Matthias Wegner: Hans Albers . Hamburg 2005.
- ↑ Barkow, Ben, 1956-, Leist, Klaus, 1930-: As if it were a life: Factual report Theresienstadt, 1942-1944 . Ullstein, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-550-07610-X , p. 205 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burg, Eugene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hirschburg, Eugen (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1944 |
| Place of death | Theresienstadt concentration camp |