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Thea Gabriele von Harbou ( Döhlau, 27 de dezembro de 1888 — Berlim, 1 de julho de 1954) foi uma atriz, cineasta, roteirista e escritora alemã. É conhecida pelo roteiro do filme clássico de ficção científica Metrópolis, de 1927, baseado no livro escrito por Thea. Junto de um de seus maridos, o cineasta Fritz Lang, Thea trabalhou como ...
Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a prolific German author and screenwriter, best known today for writing the screenplay of the silent film epic Metropolis (1927). She published over forty books, including novels, children’s books, and collections of short stories, essays, poems, and novellas.
Feb 12, 2016 · Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou’s strangest collaboration. Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou weren’t collaborators so much as co-conspirators: they had one of the strangest, most fruitful partnerships in the history of film, an erotic and artistic alliance that helped the new medium establish an emotional and political grammar. In the course of their […]
Sep 16, 2013 · Lang and von Harbou divorced in 1933. With the rise of Nazism, Lang left Germany, but von Harbou stayed and continued to work under the Nazis. In fact prominent Nazis expressed admiration for Metropolis — by some accounts, it was Hitler’s favourite film. One postwar analysis of the movie suggests that it summed up the psychology of the ...
Hanneles Himmelfahrt (dir. Thea von Harbou, 1934) - Screenplay based on The Assumption of Hannele by Gerhart Hauptmann. What Am I Without You (dir. Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 1934) Elisabeth and the Fool (dir. Thea von Harbou), 1934) Princess Turandot (dir. Gerhard Lamprecht, 1934) - Screenplay based on Turandot.
The outbreak of the First World War coincided with debates about the role of women in German society. Most female activists saw the war as an opportunity to broaden women’s sphere of activity and infl uence. The author Thea von Harbou’s fi ctional and essayistic works weighed in on the question. Although scholars char-acterize Harbou as a ...
For someone who was once one of the leading lights of the golden age of German cinema, there is an utter vacuum concerning the life of Thea von Harbou. Remembered – almost as a footnote to the career of her onetime husband, Fritz Lang – Harbou co-wrote “Der müde Tod” (“Destiny”), both of Lang’s “Dr Mabuse” films, the “Die ...
