Harry Baur

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Harry Baur (born April 12, 1880 in Paris ; † April 8, 1943 there ; actually Henri-Marie Baur ) was a French actor .

Life

Harry Baur had his first engagement in film in 1913. He owed his later career to meeting Julien Duvivier in 1930. In the following years and up to 1942 he played in 30 films and was a leading film actor in France.

After the German occupation of France, he had engagements German film companies and got the male lead in Symphony of a life of Hans Bertram on the side of Henny Porten and Gisela Uhlen . When the film was completed in September 1942, Baur played for Joseph Goebbels “above all criticism”, but Goebbels “will pursue the Bauer case” because “our Paris offices accuse him of being a Jew”. The German National Socialists took revenge for the "disgrace" of having honored an alleged Jew. He and his wife Rika Radifé were arrested on May 30, 1942. Imprisoned in the Paris Cherche-Midi prison was released four months later, on September 19, 1942, seriously ill. He did not recover from the effects of imprisonment.

Harry Baur's grave

Henri-Marie Baur died in Paris in 1943 at the age of 62 and was buried in the Catholic Cimetière Saint-Vincent .

He impersonated Jean Valjean in The Damned (1934).

Filmography (selection)

  • 1909: Beethoven
  • 1931: David Golder
  • 1931: Le Juif polonais
  • 1931: La Tête d'un homme
  • 1932: carrot head (Poil de carotte)
  • 1932: The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires)
  • 1933: The Strange Old One (Cette vieille canaille)
  • 1934: The Damned (Les Misérables)
  • 1935: Crime and Punishment (Crime et châtiment)
  • 1935: The Cross of Golgotha (Golgotha)
  • 1936: Beethoven's great love (Un grand amour de Beethoven)
  • 1936: Tarass Boulba
  • 1937: Game of Memory (Un carnet de bal)
  • 1937: Mollenard
  • 1938: La Tragédie impériale
  • 1938: nostalgia
  • 1940: Péchés de jeunesse
  • 1940: The Man from Niger (L'homme du Niger)
  • 1941: The Deceived Deceiver (Volpone)
  • 1941: Murder on Christmas Eve (L'Assassinat du Père Noël)
  • 1943: Symphony of a Life

literature

  • Hervé Le Boterf: Harry Baur . Editions Pygmalion / Gérard Watelet, Paris 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. in Goebbels "Bauer", Elke Fröhlich (ed.): The diaries of Joseph Goebbels . KG Saur, Munich, Part II: Dictations 1941–1945. 1993-1996, ISBN 3-598-21920-2 . Volume 5, p. 481, September 11, 1942.
  2. ^ Rita Thalmann : Gleichschaltung in France 1940–1944 From the Franz. By Eva Groepler. European publishing house EVA, Hamburg 1999 (Original: La mise au pas) ISBN 3-434-50062-6 , pp. 188f
  3. Jean-Pierre Guerend; Herder (ed.): Franz Stock: Trailblazer of Reconciliation. Diaries and writings . Freiburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-37893-5 , pp. 76 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. Kathrin Engel: German cultural policy in occupied Paris 1940–1944 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2003, pp. 177–186. ISBN 3-486-56739-X .