Eugen Burg Explained

Eugen Burg (6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) was a German actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers.^[1]

Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism.^[2] He was banished from the film industry when the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. He later died in Theresienstadt concentration camp.^[3]

Selected filmography

• Robert and Bertram (1915)
• In the Castle by the Lake (1918)
• The Secret of Wera Baranska (1919)
• The Secret of the Scaffold (1919)
• A Night in Paradise (1919)
• Colonel Chabert (1920)
• The Black Panther (1921)
• Violet (1921)
• Fridericus Rex (1922)
• Circus People (1922)
• Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King (1922)
• The Island of Tears (1923)
• Old Heidelberg (1923)
• The Wonderful Adventure (1924)
• Gobseck (1924)
• The Third Squadron (1926)
• Wrath of the Seas (1926)
• Fadette (1926)
• Eyes Open, Harry! (1926)
• The Circus of Life (1926)
• A Modern Dubarry (1927)
• Rinaldo Rinaldini (1927)
• Dancing Vienna (1927)
• The Gypsy Baron (1927)
• His Greatest Bluff (1927)
• The Hunt for the Bride (1927)
• Queen of the Boulevards (1927)
• The Mistress (1927)
• Panic (1928)
• It Attracted Three Fellows (1928)
• Who Invented Divorce? (1928)
• Man Against Man (1928)
• Girls, Beware! (1928)
• The First Kiss (1928)
• The Adjutant of the Czar (1929)
• Dawn (1929)
• Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (1929)
• Yes, Yes, Women Are My Weakness (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)
• The Daredevil (1931)
• Holzapfel Knows Everything (1932)
• Impossible Love (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.

Notes and References

1. Kosta p.175
2. Kosta p.175
3. http://www.cyranos.ch/smburg-d.htm Cyranos