Carl Balhaus

Carl Balhaus (4 November 1905 – 28 July 1968) was a German stage and film actor. After the Second World War he worked as director for the East German state-owned studio DEFA. He was an uncle of the Academy Award nominated cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.^[1]

Selected filmography

Actor

• The Brandenburg Arch (1929)
• Revolt in the Reformatory (1929)
• Spring Awakening (1929)
• The Blue Angel (1930)
• A Student's Song of Heidelberg (1930)
• Scapa Flow (1930)
• Westfront 1918 (1930)
• 1914 (1931)
• Kadetten (1931)
• Johnny Steals Europe (1932)
• Spoiling the Game (1932)
• Man Without a Name (1932)
• Sacred Waters (1932)
• Anna und Elisabeth (1933)
• The Marathon Runner (1933)
• Venus on Trial (1941)
• Damals in Paris (1956)

Director

• Der Fall Dr. Wagner (1954)
• Damals in Paris (1956)

Bibliography

• Kosta, Barbara. Willing Seduction: The Blue Angel, Marlene Dietrich, and Mass Culture. Berghahn Books, 2009

External links

• Carl Balhaus at the Internet Movie Database

References

1. Thomas Vorwerk, http://www.satt.org/literatur/02_12_tykwer_1.html