Paul Wegener

Paul Wegener was born in 1874 at Arnoldsdorf, in West Prussia, the son of a cloth manufacturer, and grew up on an estate in East Prussia. He abandoned law studies for the theatre and in 1906 joined Max Reinhardt's company in Berlin. Coming to cinema in 1913, he was there at once actor, screenwriter and director, drawn to trick effects and the fantastic. Having remained in Germany under Nazism, he acted in propaganda films. In September 1945 he reopened the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and died in that city in 1948.

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• CinemaThe Golem: How He Came into the WorldDer Golem, wie er in die Welt kamPaul Wegener · 1920Cinema