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Jacques Burg (also Jacques Bourg ; September 10, 1862 - 1939 ) was a German theater and silent film actor and author of stage works.

Life

Burg, the son of a businessman, started working as a bookseller after graduating from high school. However, after taking dramatic lessons from Karl Gustav Berndal , he began his stage career in Halle

He was then engaged in Stettin, St. Petersburg, Düsseldorf, at the Residenztheater in Hanover, in Breslau (Lobe Theater) and finally at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg (1890 to 1893). From 1893 he worked at the Deutsches Landestheater in Prague, from where he was committed to the Lessingtheater Berlin in 1895 , which he exchanged for the Residenztheater in 1896 , where he worked until at least 1902. From 1904 he worked as a director and actor at the Deutsche Volksbühne in Berlin.

At the beginning of his stage work he represented the subject of youthful lovers, but later, on August Förster's advice , he switched more to the field of conversation pieces, where he was active in youthful bon vivant roles.

In 1914 he and Walter Turszinsky wrote the scripts for the two silent films The Company Marries and The Pride of the Company with the young Ernst Lubitsch , he also appeared in the first-mentioned film.

In addition, he wrote several stage plays that were performed as well as two works of fiction. With Walter Turszinsky he wrote the dramatic grotesque Gelbstern (1908), together with W. Thal the comedy Die Eiskönigin (1908).

His life after 1914 is unknown. The German Biographical Archive (DBA) names 1939 as the year of death.

Works

Stage plays

• In a roundabout way (Schwank)
• Chambre séparée (Schwank)
• Premiere fever (comedy)
• The Peace Fairy (Festival)
• The poem writer (Schwank, comedy)
• Idolatry (acting)
• The eighth deadly sin (drama)
• Intermediary prohibited (comedy)
• Criminal record (comedy)
• Artist blood (comedy)
• The green Karl (Volksstück)
• The night of music (melodrama)
• Mirwanika (opera)
• His secret (comedy)
• Les Tourbillons (Melodrama)

Novels

• In the ring
• Cushion dust

Filmography

• 1914: The company gets married (screenplay, actor)
• 1914: The Company's Pride (screenplay)
• 1915: Teufelchen (screenplay)

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 142, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Jacques Burg at The German Early Cinema Database
• Jacques Burg at filmportal.de
• Jacques castle in the Internet Movie Database (English)