Ludwig Berger

Ludwig Berger (born Ludwig Bamberger; 6 January 1892 – 18 May 1969) was a German-Jewish film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed more than 30 films between 1920 and 1969. Berger began working in the German film industry during the Weimar Republic. At Decla-Bioscop and later UFA he established a reputation as a leading director of silent films. He emigrated to Hollywood, but was unable to establish himself and returned to Europe. He subsequently worked both in France and Germany. He was a member of the jury at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.

Berger also translated a few plays of Shakespeare, including Cymbeline, Hamlet, and Timon of Athens. His elder brother was the set designer Rudolf Bamberger who was killed in 1945.

Selected filmography

Film

The Mayor of Zalamea (1920) The Story of Christine von Herre (1921) A Glass of Water (1923) The Lost Shoe (1923) A Waltz Dream (1925) The Master of Nuremberg (1927) Queen Louise (dir. Karl Grune, 1927) Sins of the Fathers (1928) The Woman from Moscow (1928) The Burning Heart (1929) The Vagabond King (1930) Playboy of Paris (1930) The Little Cafe (1931) I by Day, You by Night (1932) Early to Bed (1933) Waltz War (1933) Court Waltzes (1933) Pygmalion (1937) Three Waltzes (1938) Ergens in Nederland (1940) The Thief of Bagdad (1940) The Immortal Face (1947) Ballerina (1950) also known as "Poor Little Ballerina" Stresemann (dir. Alfred Braun, 1957)

Television

1954: Die Spieler — based on The Gamblers by Nikolai Gogol 1954: Der Schauspieldirektor — based on Der Schauspieldirektor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1955: Frau Mozart 1955: Undine — based on Ondine by Jean Giraudoux 1957: Der Tod des Sokrates — based on Phaedo by Plato 1958: Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung — based on The Taming of the Shrew 1958: Was ihr wollt — based on Twelfth Night 1958: Viel Lärm um nichts — based on Much Ado About Nothing 1958: Wie es euch gefällt — based on As You Like It 1958: Maß für Maß — based on Measure for Measure 1958: Ein Sommernachtstraum — based on A Midsummer Night's Dream 1959: Das Paradies und die Peri — based on Paradise and the Peri and Lalla-Rookh 1960: Die Nacht in Zaandam 1961: Hermann und Dorothea — based on Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1962: Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind — based on a play by Ferdinand Raimund 1964: Ottiliens Tollheiten 1967: Samen von Kraut und Unkraut – Drei Szenen aus der Geschichte Hessens 1968: Odysseus auf Ogygia — based on a play by Fritz von Unruh 1969: Demetrius (co-director: Heribert Wenk) — based on Demetrius by Friedrich Schiller