Karlheinz Martin
Karlheinz Martin (May 6, 1886 – January 13, 1948) was a German stage and film director, best known for his
After enjoying success with experimental productions in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg, Martin went to Berlin, where he premiered
Martin turned to film in 1920, when he directed a cinematic adaptation of one of the most celebrated expressionist dramas, Georg Kaiser's From Morn to Midnight (Von morgens bis mitternachts) with actor Ernst Deutsch as the Cashier who embezzles money from a bank and goes on a desperate search for meaning in his life in a nightmarish metropolis.
After World War II, Martin revived Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera in Berlin, and premiered Georg Kaiser's pacifist drama, The Soldier Tanaka (Der Soldat Tanaka).
Selected filmography
- From Morn to Midnight (1920)
- The House on the Moon (1921)
- The Pearl of the Orient (1921)
- Punks Arrives from America (1935)
- The Voice of the Heart (1937)
Further reading
- Michael Patterson. The Revolution in German Theatre: 1900-1933. (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981).
External links
- Karlheinz Martin at IMDb
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