Arthur Bergen

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Arthur Bergen (born October 24, 1875 in Vienna , † 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian actor and film director .

Life

He made his debut at the Meiningen Court Theater in 1894 . In 1904 he became an actor in Berlin , where he was both an actor and a director at the Berlin Theater and Trianon Theater .

In 1913 he found his way to film, and Bergen starred in several productions. Since the mid-twenties he was primarily a film director, directing dramas , melodramas , romance films and comedies . In the beginning of the sound film age he could only be seen as an actor in very small roles.

The seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 ended his career for good. He was classified as non-Aryan and expelled from the Reichsfilmkammer in July 1938 .

On March 2, 1943, Bergen and his wife were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Presumably they were murdered there soon after their arrival.

Filmography

as an actor:

as director:

  • 1920: Yoshiwara, the love city of the Japanese (also screenplay)
  • 1925: The Assmanns
  • 1926: The Wiskottens
  • 1926: The one from the other bank
  • 1926: I lost my heart in Heidelberg
  • 1926: Das Lebenslied (also screenplay)
  • 1927: Previous conditions
  • 1927: Memories of a Nun (also screenplay)
  • 1927: Poor little Sif
  • 1928: Anastasia, the false daughter of the Tsar
  • 1928: Only a woman from Vienna kisses like this

literature

  • 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. 59.

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personal data
SURNAME Bergen, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp