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Werner Johannes Krauss (Krauß in German) (June 23, 1884 – October 20, 1959) was a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 stage and film actor.

Krauss was born in Gestungshausen
Sonnefeld

Sonnefeld is a Municipalities of Germany in the district of Coburg in Bavaria in Germany....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, the son of a clergyman. He ran away from home and joined a travelling theatre company. There, he met the noted theatre director Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt (theatre director)

Max Reinhardt was an Austrian theatre and film Theatre director and actor....
. Reinhardt took Krauss to Berlin where he became a film actor in 1916.

Krauss became a worldwide sensation for his demonic portrayal of the titular character in Robert Wiene
Robert Wiene

Robert Wiene was an important film director of the Germany silent cinema.Robert Wiene was born in Breslau, as a son of a successful theatre actor Carl Wiene....
's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 silent film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the earliest, most influential and most artistically acclaimed German Expressionism films....
.






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Werner Johannes Krauss (Krauß in German) (June 23, 1884 – October 20, 1959) was a German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 stage and film actor.

Krauss was born in Gestungshausen
Sonnefeld

Sonnefeld is a Municipalities of Germany in the district of Coburg in Bavaria in Germany....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, the son of a clergyman. He ran away from home and joined a travelling theatre company. There, he met the noted theatre director Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt (theatre director)

Max Reinhardt was an Austrian theatre and film Theatre director and actor....
. Reinhardt took Krauss to Berlin where he became a film actor in 1916.

Krauss became a worldwide sensation for his demonic portrayal of the titular character in Robert Wiene
Robert Wiene

Robert Wiene was an important film director of the Germany silent cinema.Robert Wiene was born in Breslau, as a son of a successful theatre actor Carl Wiene....
's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 silent film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the earliest, most influential and most artistically acclaimed German Expressionism films....
. He also played the title role of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
's Othello
Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....
 in a 1920 adaption, and played Iago
Iago

Iago is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello . The character's source is traced to Cinthio's tale "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi ....
 in a 1922 adaptation. He was prominently featured in Paul Leni
Paul Leni

Paul Leni born Paul Josef Levi was a German people filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionism filmmaking, making Backstairs and Waxworks in Germany, and The Cat and the Canary , The Chinese Parrot , The Man Who Laughs , and The Last Warning in the U.S....
's Waxworks
Waxworks (film)

Waxworks is an 1924 in film fantasy film/horror film silent film directed by Paul Leni. The film is about a writer who accepts a job from a Wax museum proprietor to write a series of stories about the exhibits of Caliph of Baghdad , Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper in the museum in order to boost business....
 (1924), Ewald Andre Dupont
Ewald André Dupont

Ewald Andr? Dupont was a Germany movie director.He was born on December 25, 1891, in Zeitz, Saxony, Germany, and was one of the founders of the German film industry....
's Varieté
Varieté

Variety is a 1925 in film silent film drama film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont based on the novel Der Eid des Stephan Huller by Felix Hollaender....
 (1925), F.W. Murnau's Herr Tartüff, and The Student of Prague
The Student of Prague (1926 film)

The Student of Prague is a 1926 in film silent film by Czech actor and filmmaker Henrik Galeen. It is a remake of the The Student of Prague by the same title, directed by Stellan Rye....
 (1926).

When Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born Germany politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party....
 came to power, Krauss developed a Nazi ideology. He was made an Actor of the State by Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German people politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He was one of German dictator Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers....
, and subsequently played the roles of two stereotypical Jewish characters -- Rabbi Loew and Sekretar Levy -- in Goebbels' anti-Semitic epic Jud Süß
Jud Süß

Jud S?? is a novella by Wilhelm Hauff about a businessman who believes he is a Jew, and whose unfair business practices result in the betrayal of an innocent girl....
 (1940). He also played Shylock
Shylock

Shylock is a fictional character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice....
 in a notoriously extreme production of The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a Shakespearean comedies in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedy, the play is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for...
 staged at Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
's Burgtheater
Burgtheater

The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1920 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatre s in the world....
 in 1943. After World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, Krauss was "forgiven" to the extent of being invited to German film festivals.

Krauss died in relative obscurity in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
, Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
 in 1959. He was cremated.

Filmography

  • 1916: Hoffmanns Erzählungen
  • 1916: Zirkusblut
  • 1916: Der Ungreifbare
  • 1916: Die vertauschte Braut
  • 1916: Das unheimliche Haus
  • 1916: Die Rache der Toten
  • 1916: Die Hand
  • 1916: Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil
  • 1916: Stein unter Steinen
  • 1916: Der chinesische Götze
  • 1916: Nächte des Grauens
  • 1916: Das Erbe von Het Steen
  • 1916: Die Bettlerin von St. Marien
  • 1917: Unheilbar
  • 1917: Die schöne Prinzessin von China
  • 1917: Das Bacchanal des Todes
  • 1917; Die Pagode
  • 1917: Die Fremde
  • 1917: Gesühnte Schuld
  • 1917: E, der scharlachrote Buchstabe
  • 1917: Die Tochter der Gräfin Stachowska
  • 1917: Fräulein Pfiffikus
  • 1918: Die schleichende Gefahr
  • 1918: Wenn Frauen lieben und hassen
  • 1918: Es werde Licht! 3. Teil
  • 1918: Der Prozeß Hauers
  • 1918: Das verwunschene Schloß
  • 1918: Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
  • 1918: Dida Ibsens Geschichte
  • 1918: Colomba
  • 1918: Madamed'Ora
  • 1918: Mazeppa, der Held der Ukraine
  • 1918: Der Friedensreiter
  • 1919: Opium
  • 1919: Prostitution / Das gelbe Haus
  • 1919: Das Mädchen und die Männer
  • 1919: Ewiger Strom
  • 1919: Totentanz
  • 1919: Die Frau mit den Orchideen
  • 1919: Die Insel der Glücklichen
  • 1919: Das ewige Rätsel
  • 1919: Rose Bernd
  • 1919: Phantome des Lebens
  • 1919: Opfer
  • 1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 silent film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the earliest, most influential and most artistically acclaimed German Expressionism films....
     (Regie: Robert Wiene
    Robert Wiene

    Robert Wiene was an important film director of the Germany silent cinema.Robert Wiene was born in Breslau, as a son of a successful theatre actor Carl Wiene....
    )
  • 1920: Die Frau ohne Seele
  • 1920: Johannes Goth
  • 1920: Die Brüder Karamasoff
  • 1920: Die Beichte einer Toten
  • 1920: Sieger Tod
  • 1920: Die Frau im Himmel
  • 1920: Der Staatsanwalt
  • 1920: Christian Wahnschaffe (2 Teile)
  • 1920: Die Kwannon von Okadera
  • 1921: Das Medium
  • 1921: Danton
  • 1921: Scherben (Regie: Lupu Pick)
  • 1921: Die Beute der Erinnyen
  • 1921: Das Haus in der Dragonergasse
  • 1921: Sturmflut des Lebens
  • 1921: Fledermäuse
  • 1921: Der Tanz um Liebe und Glück
  • 1921: Der Roman der Christine von Herre
  • 1921: Lady Hamilton
  • 1921: Zirkus des Lebens
  • 1922: Othello (Regie: Dimitri Buchowetzki)
  • 1922: The Burning Soil
  • 1922: Luise Millerin
  • 1922: Nathan der Weise
  • 1923: Alt-Heidelberg
  • 1923: Der Schatz
  • 1923: Fridericus Rex. 3. Teil: Sanssouci
  • 1923: Der Menschenfeind
  • 1923: Adam und Eva
  • 1923: Der Puppenmacher von Kiang-Ning
  • 1923: Zwischen Abend und Morgen
  • 1923: Der Kaufmann von Venedig
  • 1923: Fräulein Raffke
  • 1923: Der unbekannte Morgen
  • 1923: Das alte Gesetz
  • 1923: I.N.R.I.
  • 1924: Waxworks (film)
    Waxworks (film)

    Waxworks is an 1924 in film fantasy film/horror film silent film directed by Paul Leni. The film is about a writer who accepts a job from a Wax museum proprietor to write a series of stories about the exhibits of Caliph of Baghdad , Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper in the museum in order to boost business....
     (Regie: Paul Leni
    Paul Leni

    Paul Leni born Paul Josef Levi was a German people filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionism filmmaking, making Backstairs and Waxworks in Germany, and The Cat and the Canary , The Chinese Parrot , The Man Who Laughs , and The Last Warning in the U.S....
    )
  • 1924: Dekameron-Nächte
  • 1925: Ein Sommernachtstraum
  • 1925: Reveille, das große Wecken
  • 1925: Die freudlose Gasse
    Die freudlose Gasse

    Die freudlose Gasse is a film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst in Germany, based on the novel by Hugo Bettauer, and is one of the first films of the "New Objectivity? movement....
     (Regie: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
    Georg Wilhelm Pabst

    Georg Wilhelm Pabst was an Austrian film director. Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , the son of a railroad employee.Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began....
    )
  • 1925: Tartuffe
    Tartuffe (film)

    Tartuffe is a Germany silent film film producer by Erich Pommer for Universum Film AG and released in 1926 in film. It was film director by F....
     (Regie: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
    Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

    Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, better known as F. W. Murnau , was one of the most influential Germany film directors of the silent film. A figure in the expressionism movement in German cinema during the 1920s, some of Murnau's films from the silent era have been Lost film, but most still survive....
    )
  • 1925: Varieté
    Varieté

    Variety is a 1925 in film silent film drama film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont based on the novel Der Eid des Stephan Huller by Felix Hollaender....
  • 1925: Eifersucht
  • 1925: Der Trödler von Amsterdam
  • 1925: Die Moral der Gasse
  • 1925: Das Haus der Lüge
  • 1925: Die Dame aus Berlin
  • 1925: Nana
    Nana (1926 film)

    Nana is Jean Renoir's second full-length film produced in 1926 in film. It is based on the Nana by ?mile Zola. A government official, Count Muffat, falls under the spell of Nana, a young actress....
  • 1926: Geheimnisse einer Seele
  • 1926: Kreuzzug des Weibes
  • 1926: Maria, die Geschichte eines Herzens / Das graue Haus
  • 1926: The Student of Prague
    The Student of Prague (1926 film)

    The Student of Prague is a 1926 in film silent film by Czech actor and filmmaker Henrik Galeen. It is a remake of the The Student of Prague by the same title, directed by Stellan Rye....
     (Regie: Henrik Galeen)
  • 1926: Überflüssige Menschen
  • 1926: Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe!
  • 1927: Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit
  • 1927: Laster der Menschheit / Laster
  • 1927: Da hält die Welt den Atem an / Maquillage
  • 1927: Die Hose
  • 1927: Der fidele Bauer
  • 1927: Funkzauber
  • 1927: Die Hölle der Jungfrauen
  • 1928: Looping the Loop
  • 1929: Napoleon auf St. Helena
  • 1931: Yorck
  • 1932: Mensch ohne Namen
  • 1935: Hundert Tage
  • 1936: Burgtheater (Regie:Willi Forst
    Willi Forst

    Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As an actor he was a darling of the German language public, as a director one of the most significant makers of the specifically Viennese light musical comedies of the 1930s known as Wiener Filme....
    )
  • 1939: Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (Regie: Hans Steinhoff)
  • 1940: Jud Süß
    Jud Süß (1940 film)

    Jud S?? is a 1940 in film film by Veit Harlan under the supervision of Joseph Goebbels was intended as an illustration of Nazi racial ideology....
     (Regie: Veit Harlan
    Veit Harlan

    Veit Harlan was a Germans film director and actor....
    )
  • 1941: Annelie
  • 1942: Zwischen Himmel und Erde
  • 1942: Die Entlassung
  • 1943: Paracelsus (Regie: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
    Georg Wilhelm Pabst

    Georg Wilhelm Pabst was an Austrian film director. Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , the son of a railroad employee.Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began....
    )
  • 1949: Prämien auf den Tod
  • 1950: Der fallende Stern
  • 1955: Sohn ohne Heimat
  • 1958: Das verräterische Herz (TV)


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