Rudolf Bamberger (21 May 1888 – 13 August 1945) was a German art director.Prawer p. 12 He worked as a

set designer Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, or set design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but in recent years, are mostly train ...

in German theatre and cinema during the

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. Following the introduction of

sound film A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...

, he produced several

documentaries A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in term ...

. He was the elder brother of the director Ludwig Berger, and was married to the actress Hanna Waag. The

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

Bamberger left Germany following the

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takeover, and settled in

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

. He was later arrested by Nazi authorities during the German wartime occupation and was sent to Auschwitz, where he was killed in there.

Selected filmography

* ''

The Story of Christine von Herre ''The Story of Christine von Herre'' (german: Der Roman der Christine von Herre) is a 1921 German silent drama film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Agnes Straub, Werner Krauss, and Paul Hartmann. It was based on a novella by Heinrich ...

'' (1921) * '' A Glass of Water'' (1923) * ''

The Lost Shoe ''The Lost Shoe'' (german: Der verlorene Schuh) is a 1923 German silent fantasy film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Helga Thomas, Paul Hartmann and Mady Christians. Its plot is loosely based on that of Cinderella. It was shot at the ...

'' (1923) * ''

A Waltz Dream ' (''A Waltz Dream'') is an operetta by Oscar Straus with a German libretto by and , based on the novella ' (''Nux, the Prince Consort'') by Hans Müller-Einigen from his 1905 book ' (''Book of Adventures''). The young Jacobson presented Stra ...

'' (1925) * '' The Master of Nuremberg'' (1927) * '' The Burning Heart'' (1929)

References

Bibliography

* Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

* 1888 births 1945 deaths German art directors Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany Mass media people from Mainz German emigrants to Luxembourg German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp German Jews who died in the Holocaust {{Germany-artist-stub