Reinhard Bruck

Reinhard Bruck (1912)

Reinhard Bruck (born June 28, 1885 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † June 5, 1929 in Berlin ) was a German theater actor and director , silent film director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Bruck graduated from high school in Frankfurt am Main and then studied philosophy, literature and art history in Heidelberg, Erlangen and Berlin until he received his doctorate. Dr. Reinhard Bruck as a dramaturge and actor at the Intimate Theater in Nuremberg. He then served as senior director and deputy director at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . At this time, Bruck also made his film debut as a director when the Düsseldorf-based production pioneer Ludwig Gottschalk made him appropriate offers around 1910.

In 1912/13 Bruck worked as chief director at the city ​​theater of Freiburg im Breisgau , then he moved to Berlin to take up a position as chief director at the Royal Theater . In 1918/19 he was the director of this stage, now called the "Prussian State Theater". Bruck stayed there until 1923 and during this time also took up his film activities again, this time both as a director and as a screenwriter. Shortly after the First World War , he directed several cinema dramas with Albert Bassermann and his wife Else under the aegis of Jules Greenbaum, and in 1921 Bruck even shot with Asta Nielsen . In 1922 he stopped filming again. At the same time, however, he did not neglect the theater work and staged both at Berlin's Meinhardt - Bernauer stages and at the Saltenburg stages. His last directorate took him to the Theater am Nollendorfplatz .

Reinhard Bruck committed suicide on June 5, 1929.

Filmography

as a director, unless otherwise stated

• 1911: Joy of life, Polaire in the lead role
• 1911: Zouza (also screenplay), Polaire in the leading role
• 1911: Halbwelt (also screenplay)
• 1918: Othello or: The Doom of a Princely House (only screenplay)
• 1919: The Vow of Chastity (script only)
• 1919: The oath of Stephan Huller (also screenplay)
• 1919: Bocaccio's love affair
• 1920: Puppets of Death (also screenplay)
• 1920: The veiled
• 1920: planetary slide
• 1921: The nights of Cornelius Brouwer
• 1921: The gynecologist
• 1921: Hashish, Hell's Paradise
• 1921: Brigand's revenge
• 1922: Border guard in the snow
• 1922: Love cunning and lust (also screenplay)

literature

• Hans Richter (ed.): Filmstern 1922 . Hans Hermann Richter Verlag, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1921/22, p. 16.
• Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 30
• Wilhelm Kosch : Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch, first volume, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1953, p. 217

Web links

• Reinhard Bruck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Reinhard Bruck at filmportal.de