Georg Bluen

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Georg Bluen (born July 24, 1878 as Georg Blün in Worms ; † May 12, 1941 in Berlin-Kreuzberg ) was a German film producer and director .

Live and act

Very little is known about Bluen's career. His father was the Jewish businessman August Blün, his mother Regine, née Lyon, was also Jewish. He attended high school in his hometown of Worms and joined the film industry in 1910. Initially he worked for the German branch of the French production company Gaumont . In 1915 he began to produce films independently and a little later joined the production company of the American-born silent film star Fern Andra , Andra-Film. In 1917, Bluen became their business partner, and both companies now produced Andra films under the brand name Fern Andra-Film Co. Georg Bluen (Berlin).

The Wormser also directed some of these extremely emotional dramas and melodramas, some of which were given extremely pathetic titles (occasionally together with Andra). In 1922 he is said to have crashed in an airplane with the Andra and the aviator Lothar von Richthofen in Hamburg and succumbed to his injuries one day later. However, these claims have not been confirmed. Until 1925, Bluen can be traced as a producer; this year his collaboration with Fern Andra ended. Bluens is known to have lived in Berlin until 1932. Then Bluens track is lost. Classified as a so-called full Jew under the Nazi race laws , he was condemned to complete inactivity from 1933 onwards. Shortly before he could be deported, Bluen died at the age of almost 63. It is currently not known whether he committed suicide or died of natural causes.

Filmography (selection)

production

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film. Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 20.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Exact date and place of death according to the Kay Less film archive , based on information from the Worms City Archives (birth register). Various sources such as the IMDb erroneously give July 5, 1922 as the date of death. The day before, he is said to have crashed in a plane in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel together with Lothar von Richthofen, Manfred's younger brother, and his production partner Fern Andra. While the Andra survived seriously injured, Richthofen died immediately and Bluen, it is alleged, a day later. However, this is obviously nonsense at first glance. 1. Bluen film productions up to 1925 must be proven. 2. In 1926 Kurt Mühsams and Egon Jacobsohn's Lexicon of the Film had an entry by Bluens whose sparse information came from Bluen himself. This encyclopedia portrays only living filmmakers and gives Bluen's address at the time: Berlin SW 11, Königgrätzer Straße 104. 3. shows the Universal Filmlexikon from 1932, which also exclusively included living filmmakers, Bluens portrait (p. 222) and gives the one valid for 1932 Address Berlin SW 11, Großbeerenstraße 9 including telephone number.
  2. ↑ Film archive Less
personal data
SURNAME Bluen, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blün, Georg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1941
Place of death Berlin-Kreuzberg