Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst (right) and actor Albert Préjean (as Mackie Messer) during filming the film L'Opéra de quat'sous (The Threepenny Opera) in 1931.
Born	25 August 1885(1885-08-25) Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Died	29 May 1967(1967-05-29) (aged 81) Vienna, Austria
Years active	1901 - 1957
Spouse	Gertrude Hennings (m. 1924–1967) «start: (1924)–end+1: (1968)»"Marriage: Gertrude Hennings to Georg Wilhelm Pabst" Location: (linkback:http://localhost../../../../articles/g/e/o/Georg_Wilhelm_Pabst_d99c.html)

Georg Wilhelm Pabst (25 August 1885 – 29 May 1967) was an Austrian film director.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Filmography 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links

Biography

Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (today's Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic), the son of a railroad employee.

Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began. He was interned there near Brest until 1919.

Some of his most famous films concern the plight of women in German society, including The Joyless Street (1925) with Greta Garbo and Asta Nielsen, Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926) with Lili Damita, The Loves of Jeanne Ney (1927) with Brigitte Helm, Pandora's Box (1928), and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), the last two starring American actress Louise Brooks. He also co-directed with Arnold Fanck a mountain film entitled The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) starring Leni Riefenstahl.

After the coming of sound he made a trilogy of films that secured his reputation: Westfront 1918 (1930), The Threepenny Opera (1931) with Lotte Lenya (based on the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical), and Kameradschaft (1931). Pabst also filmed three versions of Pierre Benoit's novel L'Atlantide in 1932, in German, English, and French, titled Die Herrin von Atlantis, The Mistress of Atlantis, and L'Atlantide, respectively. In 1933, Pabst directed Don Quixote, once again in German, English, and French versions.

After making A Modern Hero (1934) in the U.S. and Mademoiselle Docteur (1936) in France, Pabst returned to Austria and Germany in 1938—to take care of family business, he later claimed. He made two films during World War II for Nazi Germany under the direction of Joseph Goebbels, Komödianten (1941) and Paracelsus (1943).

In 1953, Pabst directed four opera productions in Italy: La forza del destino for the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence (conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos, the cast included Renata Tebaldi, Fedora Barbieri, Mario del Monaco, Aldo Protti, Cesare Siepi), and a few weeks later, for the Arena di Verona Festival, a spectacular Aïda, with Maria Callas in the title role (conducted by Tullio Serafin, with del Monaco), Il trovatore and again La forza del destino.^[1]

Pabst died in Vienna, Austria.^[2] He was interred at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna.

Filmography

References

Further reading

• Georg Wilhelm Pabst, « Servitude et grandeur de Hollywood », Le rôle intellectuel du cinéma, Paris, SDN-Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle, 1937, pp. 251–255
• Barthélémy Amengual, G.W. Pabst, Paris, Seghers, 1966
• Lee Atwell, G.W. Pabst, Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1977
• Jean Mitry, Histoire du cinéma. Art et industrie, 5 volumes, Paris, Editions Universitaires - J.P. Delarge, 1967–1980
• Siegfried Kracauer, De Caligari à Hitler. Une histoire psychologique du cinéma allemand, Paris, Flammarion, 1987
• The Films of G.W. Pabst. An extraterritorial cinema, edited by Eric Rentschler, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1990
• John Baxter, "G.W. Pabst" in International Directory of Films and Filmmakers, Chicago, 1990, pp. 376–378
• G.W. Pabst, herausgegeben von Wolfgang Jacobsen, Berlin, Argen, 1997
• Enrico Groppali, Georg W. Pabst, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1983
• Marc Van den Berghe, La mémoire impossible. Westfront 1918 de G.W. Pabst. Grande Guerre, soldats, automates. Le film et sa problématique vus par la 'Petite Illustration' (1931), Bruxelles, 2001 [1]

External links

• Georg Wilhelm Pabst at the Internet Movie Database
• Find-A-Grave profile for Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Films directed by G. W. Pabst 1920s The Treasure Gräfin Donelli Joyless Street Secrets of a Soul One Does Not Play with Love The Love of Jeanne Ney The Devious Path Pandora's Box Diary of a Lost Girl The White Hell of Pitz Palu 1930s Westfront 1918 Skandal um Eva The Threepenny Opera Kameradschaft L'Atlantide Adventures of Don Quixote High and Low That Night A Modern Hero Street of Shadows The Shanghai Drama Girls in Distress 1940s The Comedians Paracelsus Der Fall Molander The Trial Mysterious Shadows 1950s Voice of Silence Cose da pazzi The Confession of Ina Kahr The Last Ten Days Jackboot Mutiny Ballerina Through the Forests and Through the Trees

Persondata
Name	Pabst, Georg Wilhelm
Alternative names
Short description	Film director
Date of birth	1885-8-25
Place of birth	Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Date of death	1967-5-29
Place of death	Vienna, Austria