Carl Balhaus Explained

Carl Balhaus
Other Names:	Carl Ballhaus
Birth Name:	Carl Ballhaus
Birth Date:	4 November 1905
Birth Place:	Mülheim, German Empire
Death Place:	Eisenach, East Germany
Occupation:	Actor, director, screenwriter
Nationality:	German
Years Active:	1926–1968
Relatives:	(brother) Michael Ballhaus (nephew)

Carl Balhaus (born Carl Ballhaus; 4 November 1905  - 28 July 1968) was a German stage and film actor. After the Second World War he worked as screenwriter and 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

• Der alte Fritz - 2. Ausklang (1928) - Ein Desserteur
• The Age of Seventeen (1929) - Gerts Freund Martin
• The Brandenburg Arch (1929) - Max
• Spring Awakening (1929) - Moritz, sein Sohn
• Revolt in the Reformatory (1930) - Fritz
• Menschen im Feuer (1930)
• Scapa Flow (1930)
• The Blue Angel (1930) - Gymnasiast Ertzum / Pupil
• Westfront 1918 (1930) - Butcher (uncredited)
• Only on the Rhine (1930) - Karl
• A Student's Song of Heidelberg (1930) - Bornemanns Leibfuchs
• Father and Son (1930) - Louis de Lorche
• Großstadtpiraten (1930) - Cubby O'Brien
• 1914 (1931) - Gavrilo Princip
• Shadows of the Underworld (1931) - Jonny
• M (1931) - Leeser - the man who marks Hans Beckert (uncredited)
• Kinder vor Gericht (1931) - Ewald, der Zeitungsjunge
• Kadetten (1931) - Kadettenunteroffizier von Zerbitz
• General Yorck (1931)
• Ombres des bas fonds (1931) - Jonny
• Man Without a Name (1932)
• Johnny Steals Europe (1932) - Monk
• Spoiling the Game (1932)
• Sacred Waters (1932) - Josi Blattrer
• Impossible Love (1932) - Erwin Hammer
• The Marathon Runner (1932) - Hans Huber
• Anna and Elizabeth (1933) - Martin
• Abel with the Mouth Organ (1933) - Peter
• Police Report (1934) - Schriftleiter
• In Sachen Timpe (1934) - Udo, ihr Sohn
• Einmal werd' ich Dir gefallen (1938) - Zunder - sein Freund
• The Fire Devil (1940) - Kärntner Bauernbursche
• Venus on Trial (1941) - Alfred, Peters Freund
• Geheimakten Solvay (1953) - Rudi
• Damals in Paris (1956) - Schäfer
• SAS 181 antwortet nicht (1959)
• Die schwarze Galeere (1962) - Mann im Mastkorb
• Viel Lärm um nichts (1964) - Antonio (final film role)

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

Notes and References

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