| Ludwig Berger | |
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| Born | (1892-01-06)6 January 1892 Mainz, German Empire |
| Died | 18 May 1969(1969-05-18) (aged 77) Schlangenbad, West Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1920–1969 |
Ludwig Berger (born Ludwig Bamberger; 6 January 1892 – 18 May 1969) was a German-Jewish film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed more than 30 films between 1920 and 1969. Berger began working in the German film industry during the Weimar Republic. At Decla-Bioscop and later UFA he established a reputation as a leading director of silent films. He emigrated to Hollywood, but was unable to establish himself and returned to Europe. He subsequently worked both in France and Germany. He was a member of the jury at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.
Berger also translated a few plays of Shakespeare, including Cymbeline, Hamlet, and Timon of Athens. His elder brother was the set designer Rudolf Bamberger who was killed in 1945.
Selected filmography
Film
- The Mayor of Zalamea (1920)
- The Story of Christine von Herre (1921)
- A Glass of Water (1923)
- The Lost Shoe (1923)
- A Waltz Dream (1925)
- The Master of Nuremberg (1927)
- Queen Louise (dir. Karl Grune, 1927)
- Sins of the Fathers (1928)
- The Woman from Moscow (1928)
- The Burning Heart (1929)
- The Vagabond King (1930)
- Playboy of Paris (1930)
- The Little Cafe (1931)
- I by Day, You by Night (1932)
- Early to Bed (1933)
- Waltz War (1933)
- Court Waltzes (1933)
- Pygmalion (1937)
- Three Waltzes (1938)
- Ergens in Nederland (1940)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- The Immortal Face (1947)
- Ballerina (1950)
- Stresemann (dir. Alfred Braun, 1957)
Television
- 1954: Die Spieler — based on The Gamblers by Nikolai Gogol
- 1954: Der Schauspieldirektor — based on Der Schauspieldirektor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1955: Frau Mozart
- 1955: Undine — based on Ondine by Jean Giraudoux
- 1957: Der Tod des Sokrates — based on Phaedo by Plato
- 1958: Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung — based on The Taming of the Shrew
- 1958: Was ihr wollt — based on Twelfth Night
- 1958: Viel Lärm um nichts — based on Much Ado About Nothing
- 1958: Wie es euch gefällt — based on As You Like It
- 1958: Maß für Maß — based on Measure for Measure
- 1958: Ein Sommernachtstraum — based on A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 1959: Das Paradies und die Peri — based on Paradise and the Peri and Lalla-Rookh
- 1960: Die Nacht in Zaandam
- 1961: Hermann und Dorothea — based on Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1962: Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind — based on a play by Ferdinand Raimund
- 1964: Ottiliens Tollheiten
- 1967: Samen von Kraut und Unkraut – Drei Szenen aus der Geschichte Hessens
- 1968: Odysseus auf Ogygia — based on a play by Fritz von Unruh
- 1969: Demetrius (co-director: Heribert Wenk) — based on Demetrius by Friedrich Schiller
References
- Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211
- "6th Berlin International Film Festival: Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 25 December 2009.
- Blinn, Hansjürgen; Schmidt, Wolf Gerhard (2003). Shakespeare-deutsch: Bibliographie der Übersetzungen und Bearbeitungen (in German). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag. ISBN 3503061932. OCLC 53376469.
External links
| Films directed by Ludwig Berger | |
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- 1892 births
- 1969 deaths
- 20th-century German male actors
- German theatre directors
- German male film actors
- Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Mass media people from Mainz
- People from Rhenish Hesse
- Translators of William Shakespeare
- German male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century German dramatists and playwrights
- German male poets
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
- 20th-century German screenwriters
- German male screenwriters
- Actors from Mainz
- German people of Belgian descent
- Male actors from Rhineland-Palatinate