Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele (24 July 1889 – 28 July 1915) was a German

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. He was born in

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, as a son of a wealthy

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. He was the partner of

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at th ...

and was a musician and wrote over 100 various pieces. He fought on the Russian front during the

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, and was killed in action at

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, in 1915.

External links

F. W. Murnau - 1888-1919
at www.filmmuseum-berlin.de * a

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