Eugen Burg

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Eugen Burg, c. 1920.

Eugen Burg (January 6, 1871 – April 17, 1944) was a German film actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers.

Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was banished from the film industry when the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. He later died in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Selected filmography

• Robert and Bertram (1915)
• The Black Panther (1921)
• Violet (1921)
• Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King (1922)
• The Island of Tears (1923)
• Old Heidelberg (1923)
• The Wonderful Adventure (1924)
• The Third Squadron (1926)
• Wrath of the Seas (1926)
• Fadette (1926)
• The Circus of Life (1926)
• A Modern Dubarry (1927)
• Rinaldo Rinaldini (1927)
• Dancing Vienna (1927)
• The Gypsy Baron (1927)
• His Greatest Bluff (1927)
• Queen of the Boulevards (1927)
• Das tanzende Wien (1927)
• The Mistress (1927)
• Panic (1928)
• Man Against Man (1928)
• The First Kiss (1928)
• The Adjutant of the Czar (1929)
• Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (1929)
• The Copper (1930)
• The Ring of the Empress (1930)
• 1914 (1931)
• Mary (1931)
• My Leopold (1931)
• Elisabeth of Austria (1931)
• Der Herzog von Reichstadt (1931)
• Der Draufgänger (1931)
• Holzapfel weiß alles (1932)
• The Pride of Company Three (1932)
• The Victor (1932)
• The White Demon (1932)

Bibliography

• 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.

External links

• Eugen Burg at the Internet Movie Database