Gustav von Wangenheim
Ingo Clemens Gustav Adolf Freiherr von Wangenheim (18 February 1895 – 5 August 1975) was a German actor, screenwriter and director.
Gustav von Wangenheim

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- Name
- Gustav von Wangenheim
- Birth Name
- Ingo Clemens Gustav Adolf Freiherr von Wangenheim
- Born
- 18 February 1895
- Birthplace
- Wiesbaden, Province of Nassau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
- Died
- 5 August 1975
- Place of death
- East Berlin, East Germany
- Full name
- Ingo Clemens Gustav Adolf von Wangenheim.
- Nationality
- German Reich, Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic.
- Occupation
- actor, screenwriter, politician, resistance fighter, director and writer.
- Fields
- acting, film direction, film screenwriting and literary activity.
- Education
- Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.
- Honours
- National Prize of East Germany.
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Ingo Clemens Gustav Adolf Freiherr von Wangenheim (18 February 1895 – 5 August 1975) was a German actor, screenwriter and director.
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Biography
Biography
Gustav von Wangenheim studied at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is acting, film direction and film screenwriting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Soviet Union. Distinctions recorded are National Prize of East Germany.

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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Gustav von Wangenheim • Birth Name — Ingo Clemens Gustav Adolf Freiherr von Wangenheim • Born — 18 February 1895 • Birthplace — Wiesbaden, Province of Nassau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire • Died — 5 August 1975 • Place of death — East Berlin, East Germany • Children — 4, including Friedel
Early life
Early life
Wangenheim was born Ingo Clemens Gustav Adolf Freiherr von Wangenheim in Wiesbaden, Hesse, to parents Eduard Clemens Freiherr von Wangenheim and Minna Mengers. Both of his parents were performers; his father, who used the stage name Eduard von Winterstein, appeared in over 200 films between 1910 and 1960. He briefly served in the Imperial German Army during World War I but was discharged in 1915 because of an eye injury.
Career
Career
• Illustration — Wangenheim as Thomas Hutter in Nosferatu (1922). Wangenheim made his screen debut in 1914 in Passionels Tagebuch and went on to star in many silent features. Among his works were Fritz Lang's early science fiction film, Frau im Mond (as "Windegger"), and Karl Heinz Martin's Das Haus zum Mond. In 1921, Wangenheim was cast in what would prove to be his most enduring role, that of Thomas Hutter in F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu. A member of the Communist Party of Germany since 1921, Wangenheim founded the Communist theatre company Die Truppe '31 in 1931. Die Truppe '31 produced three plays, authored and directed by Wangenheim, before it was shut down by order of the Nazi regime in 1933. Wangenheim fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and found refuge in the Soviet Union. While living in exile at Moscow's Hotel Lux, he continued writing and producing films, such as Der Kampf (1936), an anti-Nazi protest film, and was the head of the German language Cabaret "Kolonne Links". In 1936, during the Stalinist purges, he denounced his colleagues Carola Neher and Anatol Becker as Trotskyites. Becker was executed and Neher died in the Gulag system after five years in prison. Von Wangenheim's son Friedel later stated that the accusations that his father had denounced Neher and Becker were one-sided and inaccurate. Friedel claimed that his father, after being arrested by the NKVD and a lengthy interrogation, had signed a statement that implicated Carola Neher as being "anti soviet" but had explicitly rejected the accusation that Neher and her husband Anatol Becker had planned to murder Stalin. Wangenheim was a founding member of the National Committee for a Free Germany. After World War II, he returned to East Germany, where he worked for the DEFA as screenwriter and director. • Illustration — Gustav von Wangenheim with Käthe Dorsch Wangenheim was married to Inge von Wangenheim from 1931 to 1954. The couple had two sons, Friedel and Edi, and twin daughters, Elisabeth and Eleonora von Wangenheim. Wangenheim died in East Berlin on 5 August 1975 and was buried in the Friedrichsfelde cemetery in Berlin.
Filmography
Filmography
• 1916: Homunculus, 1. Teil • 1916: Passionels Tagebuch • 1916: Homunculus. 3. Teil: Die Liebestragödie des Homunculus - Heinrich • 1916: Der Letzte eines alten Geschlechtes • 1916: Das Leid der Liebe • 1917: The Coquette • 1918: Ferdinand Lassalle - Janko von Rakowitza • 1919: Kitsch. Tragödie einer Intrigantin • 1919: Der Tempel der Liebe • 1919: Die Welteroberer • 1920: Kohlhiesel's Daughters - Paul Seppl • 1920: Romeo and Juliet in the Snow - Romeo • 1920: Panic in the House of Ardon • 1920: Der Tempel der Liebe • 1921: The House on the Moon - Andreas, sein Sohn • 1922: Nosferatu - Hutter • 1922: The Fire Ship • 1923: The Pilgrimage of Love - Dr. Egil Rostrup • 1923: The Stone Rider - Jäger • 1923: Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination - Her lover • 1929: Woman in the Moon - Ingenieur Hans Windegger • 1931: Danton - Desmoulins (final film role) • 1936: Der Kampf (director / writer) • 1948: Und wieder 48 (director / writer) • 1949: Hoegler's Mission (director / writer) • 1953-1954: Gefährliche Fracht (director) • 1955: Heimliche Ehen (director / writer) • 1955-1956: Lied über dem Tal (director)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Gustav von Wangenheim was recorded at birth as Ingo Clemens Gustav Adolf von Wangenheim. His recorded language was German. He was the child of Eduard von Winterstein. He married Inge von Wangenheim. One child is recorded: Friedel von Wangenheim.
Identity
Identity
Gustav von Wangenheim is recorded as actor, screenwriter, politician, resistance fighter and director. Career and activity. Wangenheim worked in acting, film direction, film screenwriting and literary activity. He belonged to National Committee for a Free Germany. He worked at Soviet Union.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1895
Gustav von Wangenheim born at Wiesbaden.
1975
Gustav von Wangenheim died at East Berlin.
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Wiesbaden.
Birth place
East Berlin.
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References in popular culture
References in popular culture
• In the 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire, which depicted the production of Nosferatu, Eddie Izzard portrayed Wangenheim. • Footage of Wangenheim's performance as Hutter appears in the Queen video for "Under Pressure."
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- 1.Eduard von Winterstein. IMDb.
- 2.In a Cold Crater. publishing.cdlib.org.
- 3.Schoots, Hans. Living Dangerously: A Biography of Joris Ivens. Amsterdam University Press. 24 November 2000. 978-90-5356-433-2.
- 4.Reinhard Müller, Menschenfalle Moskau. Exil und stalinistische Verfolgung, Hamburg 2001
- 5.Friedel von Wangenheim, "Mein Vater Gustav Frhr. v. Wangenheim und der Fall der Schauspielerin Carola Neher" in Wangenheim Nachrichten No. 25 of December 1998.
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