Robert Baberske

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Robert Baberske
Born	(1900-05-01)1 May 1900 Berlin, Germany
Died	31 March 1958(1958-03-31) (aged 57) East Berlin, East Germany
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1920 - 1957

Robert Baberske (1900–1958) was a German cinematographer. Although he worked briefly in Britain, Baberske spent most of his career in the German film industry. Baberske began as an assistant to Karl Freund.^[1] He became a prominent film technician during the silent era, and later during the Nazi years. Following the Second World War, he lived and worked in East Germany on a number of propaganda films for the state-controlled DEFA studio.

Selected filmography

Madame Wants No Children (1926)
Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927)
Doña Juana (1927)
A Knight in London (1929)
Napoleon at St. Helena (1929)
Calais-Douvres (1931)
Thea Roland (1932)
The Higher Order (1935)
A Night in May (1938)
The Rothschilds (1940)
Attack on Baku (1942)
Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1943)
Bürgermeister Anna (1950)
Das tapfere Schneiderlein (1956)

References

↑ Bock & Bergfelder p.22

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

Robert Baberske at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Baberske, Robert
Alternative names
Short description	Cinematographer
Date of birth	1 May 1900
Place of birth	Berlin, Germany
Date of death	31 March 1958
Place of death	East Berlin, East Germany

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