Eugen Burg

Eugen Burg ( 6 as January as 1871 - 17 as April as 1944 ¹ ) was a German actor and film director.

Biography

His real name was Eugen Hirschburg, born in Berlin , Germany , in a family of Jewish origin, although he later converted to Protestantism . ² Eugen Burg was already 43 years old and was a renowned stage actor when he debuted in 1914 before the cameras, acting for the Berlin company Projektions-AG Union. He worked in more than eighty movies, most of them silent , also dealing with management duties from 1916 to 1920. His first sound film was Der Greifer (1930), where he worked his student and good friend Hans Albers .

With the coming to power of the Nazis in 1933 because of his Jewishness, Burg lost his collaboration with Universum Film AG , being excluded from the industry for the Reichsfachschaft Film, ending on suddenly his film career. Burg was deported on January 28, 1943 to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , where he died at 73 years old in unexplained circumstances.

Eugen Burg was the father of actress Hansi Burg . ³

Filmography

as an actor, unless otherwise specified

References

• Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer’s Life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.
• Kosta, Barbara. Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture. Berghahn Books, 2009
• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2007.
• Kay Less : The big Personenlexikon the film , Vol 1, p 606, Berlín 2001
• Kay Less: intermediate stage and barracks ., P.74 f Berlín 2008 ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9