Thea von Harbou
Born: 1888-12-19 in Tauperlitz, Germany
Died: 1954-07-01
Known For: Writing
Biography
Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a German actress and author of Prussian aristocratic origin. She was born in Tauperlitz in the Kingdom of Bavaria. She is especially known for the 1927 science fiction film Metropolis directed by her husband Fritz Lang. She would often publish her screenplays as novels. In 1933, Lang fleed Nazi Germany as he was Jewish; whilst she made several Nazi propaganda films. She later married Ayi Tendulkar, a journalist of Indian origin - before dying in 1954.
Filmography
1982
- M the Damned ... (Original Film Writer)
1960
- Journey to the Lost City ... (Novel)
1959
- The Indian Tomb ... (Novel)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Novel)
1953
- Dein Herz ist meine Heimat ... (Writer)
1951
- M ... (Original Story)
1948
- Journey to Happiness ... (Writer)
1945
- Das Leben geht weiter ... (Novel)
- Via Mala ... (Screenplay)
1943
- The Genius and the Nightingale ... (Story)
1941
- Annelie ... (Screenplay)
1940
- Wie konntest Du, Veronika! ... (Writer)
1939
- The Stars of Variety Show ... (Screenplay)
- Hurra, ich bin Papa ... (Writer)
- Menschen vom Varieté ... (Writer)
1938
- Le Tigre du Bengale ... (Novel)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Novel)
- Covered Tracks ... (Screenplay)
- The Indian Tomb ... (Novel)
- Die Frau am Scheidewege ... (Screenplay)
- Youth ... (Writer)
1937
- Mother Song ... (Story)
- The Broken Jug ... (Screenplay)
- Versprich mir nichts! ... (Writer)
- The Sovereign ... (Screenplay)
1936
- Die unmögliche Frau ... (Writer)
1935
- Turandot, princesse de Chine ... (Writer)
- I Was Jack Mortimer ... (Writer)
- The Old and The Young King ... (Writer)
- An Ideal Husband ... (Writer)
1934
- The Assumption of Hannele ... (Writer)
- Elisabeth and the Jester ... (Director)
- What Am I Without You ... (Writer)
- Prinzessin Turandot ... (Screenplay)
1933
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse ... (Screenplay)
1932
- The child's first right ... (Screenplay)
1931
- M ... (Screenplay)
1929
- Woman in the Moon ... (Screenplay)
1928
- Spies ... (Novel)
1927
- Metropolis ... (Novel)
1925
- The Chronicles of the Gray House ... (Writer)
1924
- Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge ... (Screenplay)
- Die Nibelungen: Siegfried ... (Screenplay)
- Michael ... (Adaptation)
- The Finances of the Grand Duke ... (Writer)
1923
- Die Prinzessin Suwarin ... (Screenplay)
- The Stone Rider ... (Idea)
- The Expulsion ... (Writer)
1922
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler ... (Screenplay)
- Phantom ... (Adaptation)
- The Burning Soil ... (Writer)
1921
- Destiny ... (Writer)
- The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Writer)
- Four Around the Woman ... (Screenplay)
- The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi ... (Writer)
- Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft ... (Story)
- Die Frauen vom Gnadenstein ... (Screenplay)
1920
- The Wandering Image ... (Writer)
- Die Legende von der heiligen Simplicia ... (Writer)