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| Georg John
1879 - 1941 |
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. The actor Georg John was born as Georg Jacobsohn in Schmiegel. Like many other actors of the silent movie era he began his career at the theater where he started his acting on smaller stages. He soon got engagements in bigger cities and in 1914 he finally played in Vienna where he not only was active as an actor but also as a director of different plays. He made his film debut with "Ramara" (16) and in the next years he became a demanded actor who often impersonated strange figures. In the next years he took part in the movies "Hilde Warren und der Tod" (17), "Mister Wu" (18), "Wogen des Schicksals" (18), "Der Weg der Grete Lessen" (19), "Veritas vincit" (19), "Peer Gynt" (19), "Die Spinnen" (19), "Unheimliche Geschichten" (19) and "Harakiri" (19). The height of his cinematical career followed in the 20s and Georg John played numerous roles in often classic German silent movies. To his well-known works of those years belong "Die Legende von der heiligen Simplicia" (20), "Das indische Grabmal, 1. Teil: Die Sendung des Yoghi" (21), "Das indische Grabmal, 2. Teil: Der Tiger von Eschnapur" (21), "Der müde Tod" (21), "Lady Hamilton" (21), "Der brennende Acker" (22), "Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler" (22), "Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin" (22), "Die Nibelungen" (24), "Der letzte Mann" (24), "Pietro der Korsar" (25), "Varieté" (25), "Die Gesunkenen" (26), "Die Mühle von Sanssouci" (26), "Metropolis" (27), "Die Weber" (27), "Alraune" (28), "Panik" (28), "Spione" (28), "Wolga Wolga" (28), "Somnambul" (29), "Andreas Hofer" (29) and "Atlantik" (29). In those years he often worked for the director Fritz Lang for whom he already played in front of the camera at the end of the 10s for the first time. His last movies came in the 30s into being, among them "Das Land des Lächelns" (30), "Danton" (31), "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" (31), "F.P.1 antwortet nicht" (32) and "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse" (33). As a Jew he was not able to continue his film career in the National Socialist Germany. Therefore he concentrated again to the theater where he was able to perform on stage for the cultural association of German Jews. But in 1941 this association was eliminated by the German rulers. Georg John was arrested and deported to the ghetto Lodz where he died debilitated in the same year.
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