Hans Behrendt
Hans Behrendt (28 September 1889 – 1942) was a German-Jewish actor, screenwriter and film director. He was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.
Hans Behrendt
- Name
- Hans Behrendt
- Born
- 28 September 1889
- Birthplace
- Berlin, German Empire
- Died
- 1942
- Place of death
- Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
- Occupation
- Film director Screenwriter Actor
- Nationality
- German Reich
- Languages
- German
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• Name — Hans Behrendt • Born — 28 September 1889 • Birthplace — Berlin, German Empire • Died — 1942 • Place of death — Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland • Occupation — Film director Screenwriter Actor • Years Active — 1920–1936
Director
Director
• Old Heidelberg (1923) • The New Land (1924) • Prinz Louis Ferdinand (1927) • Potsdam (1927) • The Trousers (1927) • Dyckerpotts' Heirs (1928) • Daughter of the Regiment (1929) • The Smuggler's Bride of Mallorca (1929) • The League of Three (1929) • Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1930) • Gloria (1931, French) • Gloria (1931, German) • The Office Manager (1931) • Danton (1931) • I Go Out and You Stay Here (1931) • The Heath Is Green (1932) • My Friend the Millionaire (1932) • Wedding at Lake Wolfgang (1933) • Must We Get Divorced? (1933) • Doña Francisquita, Ibérica Films, SA. Barcelona (1934) • Fräulein Lilli (1936)
Actor
Actor
• Mary Magdalene (1920) • The Island of the Lost (1921) • A Day on Mars (1921) • Wood Love (1925) • The Violet Eater (1926)
Life and career
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1889
Hans Behrendt born at Berlin.
1942
Hans Behrendt died at Auschwitz.
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- Berlin
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Auschwitz.
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Screenwriter
• Catherine the Great (1920) • Christian Wahnschaffe (1920) • The Island of the Lost (1921) • The Poisoned Stream (1921) • Fridericus Rex (1922) • Fräulein Raffke (1923) • The Most Beautiful Woman in the World (1924) • Wood Love (1925) • Athletes (1925) • Curfew (1925) • The Doll of Luna Park (1925) • The Woman with That Certain Something (1925) • Women You Rarely Greet (1925) • The Mill at Sanssouci (1926) • The Violet Eater (1926) • Die Puppe vom Lunapark (1926) • Our Daily Bread (1926) • My Friend the Chauffeur (1926) • Potsdam (1927) • The Dancer of Sanssouci (1932)
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q96298: Hans Behrendt
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- 1.Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211
- 2.BFI | Film & TV Database | BEHRENDT, Hans.
- 3.Amazon. Hans Behrendt. IMDb.
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