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Henrik Galeen (7 January 1881 – 30 July 1949) was an Austrian-born actor, screenwriter and film director considered an influential figure in the development of German Expressionist cinema during the silent era.
Oct 29, 2018 · But what of Henrik Galeen, the Austrian Jewish horror maven who first committed the story to the silver screen? In Galeen’s hands, the servile terracotta enforcer attained a new level of...
Henrik Galeen (1881-1949) was an Austrian-born actor, screenwriter and film director considered an influential figure in the development of German Expresssionistcinema during the silent era.
Apr 29, 2017 · By combining a close reading with attention to discussions of race, heredity, and the New Woman in the Weimar era, theories of the horror film, and Sigmund Freud's “Uncanny,” I will show how Alraune preys on fears of racial pollution and anxieties about the New Woman and debunks science as an effective source of knowledge.
Jun 22, 2017 · Plot: In modern times, an antiques dealer (Henrik Galeen) finds a golem (Paul Wegener), a clay statue, brought to life, by a Kabbalist rabbi, using a magical amulet, four centuries earlier. The...
Feb 20, 2022 · One of the most noteworthy names in Weimar cinema, Henrik Galeen – to whom the Viennale 2021 has dedicated a special retrospective – stood out at the beginning of the last century above all for the dark and disturbing character he used to give his works, now as scriptwriter, now as director or actor.
Henrik Galeen was born on January 7, 1881 in Stryj, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer and director, known for Nosferatu (1922), The Golem (1914) and A Daughter of Destiny (1928). He was married to Comptess Ilse von Schenk and Elvira Adler.
