Eugen Burg

Eugen Burg, c. 1920

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.

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)
• 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.

External links

• Eugen Burg at IMDb