Carl Auen

Carl Auen on a photograph by Nicola Perscheid

Carl Theodor Auen (born February 16, 1892 in Düsseldorf , † June 23, 1972 in Berlin-Lichterfelde ) was a German film actor.

Life

Carl Auen began his artistic career in 1911 at the theater. He made his film debut in 1914 with Asta Nielsen in the tiny role of head waiter in the melodrama White Roses . Since then he has appeared in front of the camera in numerous silent films, often directed by Franz Hofer , William Kahn , Leo Lasko and Wolfgang Neff , and often in the role of handsome noblemen and gentlemen. His success was based on two feature film series in which he played the criminalist Rat Anheim (from 1917) and the detective Joe Deebs (from 1919). Successful films such as Frauenschicksal (1922), Lyda Ssanin (1923), Ash Wednesday (1924/25) and One against All (1926/27) formed the high point of his career in the 1920s .

Auen belonged before the " seizure " of the Nazis the nationalist -minded, anti-Semitic Militant League for German Culture and the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization of film. In the sound film, which he switched to in 1932 at the age of 40 and after 107 roles in silent film, Carl Auen only appeared in supporting roles. Nevertheless, Joseph Goebbels held him in high regard to appoint him head of the film department of the Reichsfilmkammer in 1933 , a key position in personnel policy within the National Socialist film industry. In 1937 Carl Auen played a detective in the propaganda film Togger and took on a small film role for the last time in Richard Eichberg's double film The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb .

After the end of the Second World War , Carl Auen was the agent for spirits.

Filmography

• 1914: The mysterious villa
• 1914: White roses
• 1915: Soap bubbles
• 1916: From the book of life
• 1917: The Saratoga suitcase
• 1917: The spotted tie
• 1917: The cricket
• 1917: Invisible hands
• 1917: Giovanni's revenge
• 1917: The Dombronowska case
• 1917: The great Demmingen
• 1917: Miss Pfiffikus
• 1917: The theater prince
• 1918: The Schwabemädle
• 1918: Lost Daughters
• 1918: The laughing death
• 1918: Sr. Highness bridal trip
• 1918: The dead guest. The Rödern case
• 1918: Convict 113 or "Honor for the Father"
• 1918: The enchanted castle
• 1918: Lieutenant Mucki
• 1918: Storms of Life
• 1918: The Pharmacist Warren's Diary
• 1918: the dancer
• 1918: The enigmatic look
• 1918: genius and love
• 1919: The seduced
• 1919: The Howling Wolf
• 1919: The Malay's dagger
• 1919: morality and sensuality. Germinating Life III
• 1919: The panther bride
• 1920: diamond 10
• 1920: The radio call of the Riobamba
• 1920: caliber five point two
• 1920: The Gamblers Club
• 1920: The midnight visit
• 1920: The one-eyed man
• 1920: Johann Baptiste Lingg
• 1920: New York - Paris. 1st part: espionage company
• 1920: New York - Paris. Part 2: espionage company
• 1920: The fortune teller of Paris
• 1920: Hunger for Life (Russalka)
• 1920: The beautiful Miss Lilian
• 1920: tambourine and castanets
• 1921: The unwritten law
• 1921: Lady of Hearts
• 1921: King of Hearts
• 1921: Pique Seven
• 1921: Meeting As
• 1921: The confession of a fallen woman
• 1921: The shadow of Gaby Leed
• 1921: The sins of the mother
• 1921: The secrets of Berlin. Part 2: Berlin W. The cosmopolitan city in shine and light
• 1921: The mistress of St. Tropez
• 1921: Pique Jack
• 1922: The girl from hell
• 1922: The tsarina's diadem
• 1922: The men of Sybill
• 1922: Lyda Ssanin
• 1922: the fate of women
• 1922: In the glow of the senses, two parts
• 1922: Divan cats
• 1922: The cigarette countess
• 1923: The game of love
• 1923: The burning ball
• 1923: One child - one dog
• 1924: people in the fog
• 1924: winter storms
• 1924: set me free
• 1924: The house by the sea
• 1925: The love cage
• 1925: The fire dancer
• 1925: Around Alexanderplatz
• 1925: The cry for happiness
• 1925: The old ballroom, two parts
• 1925: The Inca handwriting
• 1925: golden boy
• 1925: Paths of Fate
• 1925: Ash Wednesday
• 1925: Lena Warnstetten
• 1926: The women of Folies Bergères
• 1926: The laughing husband
• 1926: The midshipman
• 1926: Annemarie and her Ulan
• 1927: Men before marriage
• 1927: Only a Viennese woman kisses like this
• 1927: I once had a beautiful fatherland
• 1927: The world without weapons
• 1927: The false prince
• 1927: The girl from abroad
• 1927: Facade ghost
• 1927: One against all
• 1927: On the Weser
• 1928: Archduke Johann
• 1928: City youth
• 1928: thieves
• 1928: The song my mother sang
• 1928: The dance student
• 1928: Tragedy at the Royal Circus
• 1929: Perjury
• 1929: special registration
• 1929: The death ride in the world record
• 1929: two brothers (rivals of love)
• 1929: The moral judge (§ 218)
• 1929: City children
• 1929: The trees bloom again in the Prater
• 1929: Lux, the king of criminals
• 1929: Sin and Morals
• 1929: Once upon a time there was a loyal hussar
• 1930: twice lux
• 1930: Parisian underworld
• 1932: The invisible front
• 1932: The Orlov
• 1932: love of hussars
• 1932: Ballhaus golden angel
• 1932: Tannenberg
• 1932: Theodor Körner
• 1932: It's about everything
• 1933: Hans Westmar
• 1933: What women dream
• 1933: Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten
• 1933: A song goes around the world
• 1933: Little Man - What Now?
• 1933: The Flower of Hawaii
• 1936: It's about my life
• 1936: Mary, the maid
• 1936: Ave Maria
• 1936: stowaways
• 1936: final chord
• 1936: An order is an order
• 1936: traitor
• 1936: Savoy Hotel 217
• 1936: Stronger than paragraphs
• 1936: Donogoo Tonka
• 1937: To new shores
• 1937: My son, the Minister
• 1937: With a sealed order
• 1937: Togger
• 1937: Fridericus
• 1937: The glass ball
• 1938: The tiger of Esnapur
• 1938: The Indian tomb

literature

• 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. 182.

Web links

• Carl Auen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pictures by Carl Auen In: Virtual History

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 21.