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Martin Hellberg (also known as Martin Heinrich, 31 January 1905 – 31 October 1999) was a German actor, director and writer.

Life

Martin Hellberg was born in 1905 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany, as a son of a pastor. From 1922 to 1924, Martin Hellberg studied at the Dresdner Konservatorium. He was a pupil of the director Georg Kiesau. In 1931 he joined the Communist Party (KPD). From 1924 until 1933, he worked at the Staatlichen Schauspielhaus Dresden (theater). However, he was fired by the Nazis in 1933. He first worked as a freelance director and then became a senior director in Freiburg im Breisgau. Afterwards, the Nazis forbade him to appear on stage again. In 1935, Hellberg made his first appearance as a film actor in Die blonde Carmen. In 1952, following his debut as a director in The Condemned Village, he received the International Peace Prize for this film. In 1958, he was the director and writer of the movie Emilia Galotti. In 1959, he directed and wrote Kabale und Liebe, in which he also appeared as an actor. In 1962, he was the director and an actor in the film Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück. In 1964, he wrote and directed the movie Viel Lärm um nichts. In 1981, he appeared as Professor Reinhardt in the movie Mephisto, which was awarded with the 1981 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Martin Hellberg was married to Berta Gurewitsch from 1926 to 1935. Then Gurewitsch emigrated to then-British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel) together with their son Yigal Tumarkin. Tumarkin's youngest son and Hellberg's grandson Yon Tumarkin is a well known Israeli actor.

After his marriage with Gurwitsch, Hellberg got to know his second wife Ruth Baldor. Baldor was an actress and appeared in several of Hellberg's films. The couple separated at the end of the sixties. During his last years as a writer, director and actor, Hellberg worked and lived in Bad Berka near Weimar.

Seleted filmography

References

1. Martin Hellberg at IMDb
2. Klaus Kirst (31 January 1995). "Der frühere DEFA-Regisseur und Schauspieler Martin Hellberg wird heute 90 Jahre alt.Klassische Dramen fürs große Kinopublikum". Berliner-zeitung.de. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
3. "Martin Hellberg". Staatsschauspiel-dresden.de. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
4. ^ "Hellberg, Martin". Defa.de. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
5. Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR; Panorama DDR; Intertext; Fremdsprachendienst der DDR (1989). Information GDR: the comprehensive and authoritative reference source of the German Democratic Republic. Pergamon Press. p. 634. ISBN 978-0-08-037065-1. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
6. Heinz Kersten (18 April 1957). ""Westliche Dekadenz" im Kino. Weniger Politik, mehr Unterhaltung – Babelsberger Pläne für 1957". Zeit.de. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
7. Ralf Schenk. "Zwischen Volksfront und Ewigkeit. Martin Hellberg wird 90" (PDF). Defa-stiftung.de. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
8. Anke Westphal. "Film "Viel Lärm um nichts". Sittsame Fräulein am Pool". Fr-online.de. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
9. "The 54th Academy Awards (1982) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
10. "Mephisto". Br.de. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
11. Text to the audiobook Tagebuch (RIAS Berlin, 1963) on www.dradio.de
12. Biography for Martin Hellberg at IMDb
13. "Split. Personajes". boomerang.com.br. Archived from the original on 20 May 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
14. Neues Deutschland, 7. März 1980, S. 2

External links

• Martin Hellberg at IMDb

• German male film actors
• 1905 births
• 1999 deaths
• 20th-century German male actors
• East German actors
• Male actors from Dresden