Hans Behrendt

German-Jewish actor, screenwriter and film director

Hans Behrendt
Born	28 September 1889 Berlin, German Empire
Died	1942 Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
Occupation(s)	Film director Screenwriter Actor
Years active	1920 -1936

Hans Behrendt (28 September 1889 – 1942) was a German-Jewish^[1] actor, screenwriter and film director.^[2] He was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.^[3]

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

Catherine the Great (1920)
Christian Wahnschaffe (1920)
The Island of the Lost (1921)
The Poisoned Stream (1921)
Fridericus Rex (1922)
Fräulein Raffke (1923)
The Most Beautiful Woman in the World (1924)
Wood Love (1925)
Athletes (1925)
Curfew (1925)
The Doll of Luna Park (1925)
The Woman with That Certain Something (1925)
Women You Rarely Greet (1925)
The Mill at Sanssouci (1926)
The Violet Eater (1926)
Die Puppe vom Lunapark (1926)
Our Daily Bread (1926)
My Friend the Chauffeur (1926)
Potsdam (1927)
The Dancer of Sanssouci (1932)

Director

Old Heidelberg (1923)
The New Land (1924)
Prinz Louis Ferdinand (1927)
Potsdam (1927)
The Trousers (1927)
Dyckerpotts' Heirs (1928)
Daughter of the Regiment (1929)
The Smuggler's Bride of Mallorca (1929)
The League of Three (1929)
Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1930)
Gloria (1931, French)
Gloria (1931, German)
The Office Manager (1931)
Danton (1931)
I Go Out and You Stay Here (1931)
The Heath Is Green (1932)
My Friend the Millionaire (1932)
Wedding at Lake Wolfgang (1933)
Must We Get Divorced? (1933)
Doña Francisquita, Ibérica Films, SA. Barcelona (1934)
Fräulein Lilli (1936)

Actor

Mary Magdalene (1920)
The Island of the Lost (1921)
A Day on Mars (1921)
Wood Love (1925)
The Violet Eater (1926)

References

^ Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211
^ "BFI | Film & TV Database | BEHRENDT, Hans". Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
^ "Hans Behrendt". IMDb. Amazon. Retrieved 26 March 2021.