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
- Via Mala ... (Screenplay)
- Das Leben geht weiter ... (Novel)
1943
- The Genius and the Nightingale ... (Story)
1941
- Annelie ... (Screenplay)
1940
- Wie konntest Du, Veronika! ... (Writer)
1939
- Menschen vom Varieté ... (Writer)
- The Stars of Variety Show ... (Screenplay)
- Hurra, ich bin Papa ... (Writer)
1938
- Covered Tracks ... (Screenplay)
- The Indian Tomb ... (Novel)
- Le Tigre du Bengale ... (Novel)
- The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Novel)
- Die Frau am Scheidewege ... (Screenplay)
- Youth ... (Writer)
1937
- Mother Song ... (Story)
- The Broken Jug ... (Screenplay)
- The Sovereign ... (Screenplay)
- Versprich mir nichts! ... (Writer)
1936
- Die unmögliche Frau ... (Writer)
1935
- The Old and The Young King ... (Writer)
- Turandot, princesse de Chine ... (Writer)
- I Was Jack Mortimer ... (Writer)
- An Ideal Husband ... (Writer)
1934
- The Assumption of Hannele ... (Writer)
- Prinzessin Turandot ... (Screenplay)
- What Am I Without You ... (Writer)
- Elisabeth and the Jester ... (Director)
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: Siegfried ... (Screenplay)
- Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge ... (Screenplay)
- Michael ... (Adaptation)
- The Finances of the Grand Duke ... (Writer)
1923
- Die Prinzessin Suwarin ... (Screenplay)
- The Expulsion ... (Writer)
- The Stone Rider ... (Idea)
1922
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler ... (Screenplay)
- Phantom ... (Adaptation)
- The Burning Soil ... (Writer)
1921
- Destiny ... (Writer)
- The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi ... (Writer)
- Four Around the Woman ... (Screenplay)
- Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft ... (Story)
- The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur ... (Writer)
- Die Frauen vom Gnadenstein ... (Screenplay)
1920
- The Wandering Image ... (Writer)
- Die Legende von der heiligen Simplicia ... (Writer)