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Ludwig Berger
Ludwig Berger
Born	6 January 1892; Mainz, German Empire
Died	18 May 1969 (aged 77); Schlangenbad, West Germany
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1920–1969

Ludwig Berger (born Ludwig Bamberger; 6 January 1892 – 18 May 1969) was a German-Jewish^[1] film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed more than 30 films between 1920 and 1969. Berger began working in the German film industry during the Weimar Republic. At Decla-Bioscop and later UFA he established a reputation as a leading director of silent films. He emigrated to Hollywood, but was unable to establish himself and returned to Europe. He subsequently worked both in France and Germany. He was a member of the jury at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2]

Berger also translated a few plays of Shakespeare, including Cymbeline, Hamlet, and Timon of Athens.^[3] His elder brother was the set designer Rudolf Bamberger who was killed in 1945.

Selected filmography

1954: Die Spieler — based on The Gamblers by Nikolai Gogol
1954: Der Schauspieldirektor — based on Der Schauspieldirektor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1955: Frau Mozart
1955: Undine — based on Ondine by Jean Giraudoux
1957: Der Tod des Sokrates — based on Phaedo by Plato
1958: Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung — based on The Taming of the Shrew
1958: Was ihr wollt — based on Twelfth Night
1958: Viel Lärm um nichts — based on Much Ado About Nothing
1958: Wie es euch gefällt — based on As You Like It
1958: Maß für Maß — based on Measure for Measure
1958: Ein Sommernachtstraum — based on A Midsummer Night's Dream
1959: Das Paradies und die Peri — based on Paradise and the Peri and Lalla-Rookh
1960: Die Nacht in Zaandam
1961: Hermann und Dorothea — based on Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1962: Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind — based on a play by Ferdinand Raimund
1964: Ottiliens Tollheiten
1967: Samen von Kraut und Unkraut – Drei Szenen aus der Geschichte Hessens
1968: Odysseus auf Ogygia — based on a play by Fritz von Unruh
1969: Demetrius (co-director: Heribert Wenk) — based on Demetrius by Friedrich Schiller

^ Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211
^ "6th Berlin International Film Festival: Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 25 December 2009.
^ Blinn, Hansjürgen; Schmidt, Wolf Gerhard (2003). Shakespeare-deutsch: Bibliographie der Übersetzungen und Bearbeitungen (in German). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag. ISBN 3503061932. OCLC 53376469.