Martin Herzberg (actor)

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Martin Fritz Herzberg (born January 5, 1911 in Berlin , † around 1972) was a German actor and child star of the silent film era.

Live and act

Martin Fritz Herzberg started working as a child model at the age of six. Immediately before the end of World War I , he was discovered for the film. From the beginning he was used with supporting supporting roles and a few leading roles. In addition, Herzberg made his theatrical debut in 1920 with the role of the Tell boy in a performance at a youth stage of Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell .

Also in 1920 Herzberg met the Danish director AW Sandberg , who gave him a role in his German production The Benefit Performance of the Four Devils that same year . Enthusiastic about Herzberg's performance there, Sandberg brought him to Copenhagen several times to use him in his Danish productions (" Great Expectations", "David Copperfield", "The Landknecht's Last Love", "The Viennese Child "). Herzberg's portrayal of David Copperfield in the film adaptation of the same name based on Charles Dickens ' original from 1922 caused a sensation.

During the late 20s, Herzberg's roles gradually became smaller. Of his later achievements, the portrayal of the young Michael Caviol in the revolutionary drama The Princess and the Violinist, staged from a script by Alfred Hitchcock , deserves attention. After only three sound films, Martin Herzberg ended his film career at the age of 19.

Martin Herzberg married Eva Diekow, also a German, in Tenerife and had a son from this marriage - Boris - who was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1955. In Santa Cruz he worked as a photographer.

He then moved to the Canary Islands , where Herzberg organized acting seminars in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria in collaboration with the actor, director and artistic director Eugen Herbert Kuchenbuch . As a result of the seizure of power in Germany, Herzberg stayed in Spain and then went to Tenerife . In the capital there, he is said to have worked as a photographer until the end.

Filmography

  • 1918: childhood love
  • 1919: Martha Marx's atonement
  • 1919: The Secret of Holloway Castle
  • 1919: pogrom
  • 1920: The charity performance of the four devils
  • 1920: The scoundrel violinist
  • 1921: Great expectations ( Store forventninger )
  • 1922: The farmhand's last love ( Lasse Månsson fra Skaane )
  • 1922: David Copperfield ( David Copperfield )
  • 1922: The last dance ( Den sidste dans )
  • 1923: Paganini
  • 1923: The Magyar Princess
  • 1923: Everything for money
  • 1923: The Vienna Child ( Wienerbarnet )
  • 1924: Even a girl can be wrong ( Kan kvinder fejle? )
  • 1924: Carlos and Elisabeth
  • 1924: Comedians of Life
  • 1925: The princess and the violinist
  • 1925: Free people
  • 1927: primary love
  • 1927: Maria Stuart
  • 1928: The seventeen year olds
  • 1928: The band of robbers
  • 1929: Lost youth
  • 1929: sins of youth
  • 1929: The adolescents
  • 1930: The last company
  • 1930: fathers and sons
  • 1930: The Sans-souci flute concert

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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 654.

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personal data
SURNAME Herzberg, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herzberg, Martin Fritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and child actor of the silent film era
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH around 1972