The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921
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Werner Johannes Krauss (Krauß in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure.
Birthday: Jun 23, 1884. Birthplace: Gestungshausen, Germany. Distinguished stage actor who entered film in the early 1910s and, beginning with "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919), gained...
Werner Johannes Krauss (Krauß in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure.
Werner Krauss was born on 23 June 1884 in Gestungshausen, Sonnefeld, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Paracelsus (1943) and Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death (1939).
Werner Krauss was born on 23 June 1884 in Gestungshausen, Sonnefeld, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Paracelsus (1943) and Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death (1939).
Distinguished stage actor who entered film in the early 1910s and, beginning with "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919), gained international recognition as one of the central performers of German expressionist cinema. Krauss later appeared in several Nazi propaganda films, the most notorious of...
Werner Krauss (7 June 1900 – 28 August 1976) was a German university professor (Romance studies). During the 1940s he became a political activist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. In 1943 he was found guilty of preparing to commit high treason and condemned to death. Following the intervention of influential fellow-intellectuals ...
WERNER KRAUSS, ACTOR, DIES AT 75; Austrian Stage, Film Star Was Center of Protests by Foes of Fascism. Share full article. Oct. 21, 1959. The New York Times Archives. See the article in its ...
Jun 3, 2009 · The film opens in the German town of Holstenwall, seen in a drawing as houses like shrieks climbing a steep hill. After a prologue, a story is told: A sideshow operator named Caligari ( Werner Krauss) arrives at the fair to exhibit the Somnambulist, a man he claims has been sleeping since his birth 23 years ago.
Werner Krauss. Werner Krauss, born in Stuttgart as the son of a literary historian, studied Romance literature, gained a PhD, and worked at the University of Marburg from 1931, becoming a lecturer in 1940. That same year, he was called up as an interpreter to Berlin.
