Otto Wallburg

Otto Wallburg
Otto Wallburg
Born	Otto Maximilian Wallburg (1889-02-21)21 February 1889 Berlin, German Empire
Died	October 29, 1944(1944-10-29) (aged 55) Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland
Other names	Otto Wasserzug
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1926 - 1938

Otto Wallburg (21 February 1889 – 29 October 1944) was a German actor and Kabarett performer. He was a prolific film actor during the late silent and early sound era.

Wallburg was born Otto Maximilian Wasserzug in Berlin, the son of a Jewish banker. He drifted into stage acting, but served in the German Army during the First World War and was wounded on the Eastern Front after winning an Iron Cross. From 1926 onwards he worked in the large German film industry, including many productions made by UFA.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933 he left Germany and moved to Austria where he continued to work in film. He later moved to France and then on to the Netherlands. He was arrested following the 1940 German invasion of the Netherlands. He was held for a while at Westerbork transit camp, and later moved to Auschwitz where he was killed.

Filmography

• Chaste Susanne (1926)
• Adventures of a Ten Mark Note (1926)
• Derby (1926)
• We'll Meet Again in the Heimat (1926)
• The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927)
• The Mistress of the Governor (1927)
• Light-Hearted Isabel (1927)
• Grand Hotel (1927)
• Heaven on Earth (1927)
• My Friend Harry (1928)
• Theatre (1928)
• A Modern Casanova (1928)
• Love in the Cowshed (1928)
• Foolishness of His Love (1929)
• The Night Belongs to Us (1929)
• The Woman Everyone Loves Is You (1929)
• The Crimson Circle (1929)
• Column X (1929)
• Trust of Thieves (1929)
• The Fourth from the Right (1929)
• Marriage in Trouble (1929)
• Foolish Happiness (1929)
• His Best Friend (1929)
• Men Without Work (1929)
• The Merry Widower (1929)
• Der Hampelmann (1930)
• Heute nacht - eventuell (1930)
• The Song Is Ended (1930)
• Petit officier... Adieu! (1930)
• Hans in Every Street (1930)
• There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You (1930)
• Hocuspocus (1930)
• The Widow's Ball (1930)
• Yorck (1931)
• Salto Mortale (1931)
• Who Takes Love Seriously? (1931)
• Her Grace Commands (1931)
• Congress Dances (1931)
• Seitensprünge (1931)
• Queen of the Night (1931)
• The Woman They Talk About (1931)
• Bombs on Monte Carlo (1931)
• The Little Escapade (1931)
• Alarm at Midnight (1931)
• Der Hochtourist (1931)
• Ronny (1931)
• That's All That Matters (1931)
• The Opera Ball (1931)
• Her Majesty the Barmaid (1931)
• Weekend in Paradise (1931)
• When the Soldiers (1931)
• Frederica (1932)
• Spoiling the Game (1932)
• Distorting at the Resort (1932)
• How Shall I Tell My Husband? (1932)
• The Beautiful Adventure (1932)
• The Black Hussar (1932)
• Two Hearts Beat as One (1932)
• When Love Sets the Fashion (1932)
• The Song of Night (1932)
• Greetings and Kisses, Veronika (1933)
• The Tsarevich (1933)
• Madame Wants No Children (1933)
• Inge and the Millions (1933)
• Wege zur guten Ehe (1933)
• Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen (1933)
• Das häßliche Mädchen (1933)
• Die kleine Schwindlerin (1933)
• Tell Me Who You Are (1933)
• What Women Dream (1933)
• Konjunkturritter (1933)
• Daughter of the Regiment (1933)
• The Big Bluff (1933)
• Marion, That's Not Nice (1933)
• Peter (1934)
• Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten (1934)
• Alles für die Firma (1935)
• Heut' ist der schönste Tag in meinem Leben (1935)
• Little Mother (1935)
• Ball at the Savoy (1935)
• Viereinhalb Musketiere (1935)
• Catherine the Last (1936)
• Bubi (1937)
• Crossroads (1938)

External links

• Otto Wallburg at the Internet Movie Database
• Otto Wallburg at Virtual History