Georg Burghardt

Georg Burghardt , also George Burghardt , born as Georg Meyer , (born on January 20, 1876 in Berlin ; died on February 21, 1943 , presumably there) was a German actor and director of stage and silent film , as well as a dramaturge and arranger of plays .

Activities in stage and film

Born in Georg Meyer, he received acting lessons in his hometown of Berlin from 1896 to 1898 and immediately thereafter began his first permanent engagement at the St. Gallen City Theater. In the 19th century, there were obligations to the stages in Trier and Cottbus. From 1900 to 1918 he was a member of the Munich Schauspielhaus as George Burghardt. During this time he was brought in front of the camera by the film production company Emelka for the first time and played leading roles as Georg Burghardt both in serious, patriotic edifying plays (such as The Hero Girl from the Vosges ) as well as in comedies ( Uncle Tobias as guardian of virtue ) and crime stories (for example Franz Seitzens The Lord with the Great Dane ). From 1918 Georg Burghardt also directed films without having achieved higher orders there. In 1920 he staged his only large-scale production with the costume fabric Louise de Lavallière . At the same time he founded his own small educational institution, the so-called “Dramatic School”. In the second half of 1920 Burghardt left the Bavarian capital again and moved to Berlin.

There you saw the versatile artist u. a. at the Walhalla Theater and the Residenz Theater, at the same time he made a name for himself as a dramaturge and editor of Schwänken and folk plays from the pen of Erdmann Graeser ( Lemke's sel. Widow, Die Koblanks and Eisrieke ). Georg Burghardt also continued his intensive film activity (until 1922 as a director) in the capital of the Reich, but now he had to be content with smaller roles - with the exception of the main role in the historical spectacle of The King's Order . Until 1926 he was not only active as an actor, but also as a director at the theater in Lützowstrasse, played again in 1927/28 at the Residenz Theater and in the following season at the Wallner Theater. In the 1929/30 season Georg (e) Burghardt worked both as a director and an actor at the Walhalla Theater, before he switched to the Zentral-Theater for one season as a dramaturge and actor. Almost at the same time he also worked for the New Theater am Zoo, where he was also employed as a dramaturge for numerous operettas and revues such as Fräulein Pardon, Sonny Boy and I lost my heart in Heidelberg . Burghardt was used as an actor in the late phase of the Weimar Republic at the Lessing and Schiller theaters.

Isolation from 1933

With the seizure of power by the Nazis, the actor from 1933 was increasingly isolated, the baptized Jew Georg Meyer could not Aryan certificate provide. In the following period Burghardt lived on 19 Reichsmark welfare support a month. A letter of appeal written in 1937 to his NS-related colleague Eugen Klöpfer , who administered the Goebbels Foundation Künstlerdank, was refused in March 1938, as Burghardt could not understandably prove his "Aryan descent". Most recently he lived in the poorest of circumstances at Lindower Strasse 17 in Berlin-Wedding . Presumably there he was elderly and died shortly before an upcoming deportation.

Filmography

as an actor, unless otherwise stated

• 1914: The hero girl from the Vosges
• 1917: Uncle Tobias as guardian of virtue
• 1917: The gentleman with the mastiff
• 1918: Peasant honor (also director)
• 1919: work
• 1919: From the secrets of a women's monastery (also director)
• 1919: Der Würger vom Ulmenried (also director)
• 1920: When People Cry Hot Tears (Director)
• 1920: Louise de Lavallière (Director)
• 1921: The Singer (Director)
• 1922: The Curse of the Past (Director)
• 1926: Mermaid
• 1926: The king's orders
• 1927: Richthofen, the red knight of the air
• 1927: The weavers
• 1927: The dancing Vienna
• 1927: Dr. Bessel's transformation
• 1928: The tied Polo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Meyer in the counting card file of the Reich Association of Jews

Web links

• Georg Burghardt in: Handbuch des deutschsprachigen Exiltheater 1933-1945 , on books.google.de
• Georg Burghardt in the Internet Movie Database (English)- there incorrect life dates (those of the actor Max Burghardt)
• Georg Burghardt at filmportal.de
• Georg Meyer (Burghardt) in the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database