Heinrich George
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Heinrich George (October 9, 1893 in Stettin (Szczecin) - September 25, 1946 in Oranienburg) was a German actor.
He acted in films such as Berlin Alexanderplatz and others and had one of first roles in the Fritz Lang directed film Metropolis. George is also noted for spooking the young Bertolt Brecht in his first directing job, a production of Arnolt Bronnen's Parracide (1922), when he refused to continue working with the director.[1] Although active in the Communist Party of Germany before the Nazi takeover, he acted in a number of propaganda films before and during WWII, including Hitlerjunge Quex, Jud Süß, and Kolberg. He died in 1946 in a Russian concentration camp, just north of Berlin, after an appendix operation.
He was also the father of actor Götz George.
[edit] Works cited
- Thomson, Peter. 1994. "Brecht's Lives." In The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. Ed. Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks. Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521414466. p.22-39.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Thomson (1994, 26).
