Otto Wallburg

Otto Wallburg
160px Otto Wallburg
Born	21 February 1889 Berlin, German Empire
Died	29 October 1944 (aged 55) Auschwitz concentration camp Poland
Other names	Otto Wasserzug
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1926 - 1938

Otto Wallburg (1899–1944) 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.

Selected filmography

• Chaste Susanne (1926)
• The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927)
• Light-Hearted Isabel (1927)
• Grand Hotel (1927)
• Heaven on Earth (1927)
• The Night Belongs to Us (1929)
• Der rote Kreis (1929)
• Column X (1929)
• The Fourth from the Right (1929)
• Marriage in Trouble (1929)
• Der Hampelmann (1930)
• There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You (1930)
• Hocuspocus (1930)
• Yorck (1931)
• Who Takes Love Seriously? (1931)
• Ihre Majestät die Liebe (1931)
• Queen of the Night (1931)
• Monte Carlo Madnes (1931)
• The Little Escapade (1931)
• The Opera Ball (1931)
• Her Majesty the Barmaid (1931)
• Weekend in Paradise (1931)
• Der Kongreß tanzt (1931)
• Spoiling the Game (1932)
• The Beautiful Adventure (1932)
• The Black Hussar (1932)
• Two Hearts Beat as One (1932)
• When Love Sets the Fashion (1932)
• Greetings and Kisses, Veronika (1933)
• What Women Dream (1933)
• The Big Bluff (1933)
• Marion, That's Not Nice (1933)
• Peter (1934)
• Little Mother (1935)
• Ball im Savoy (1935)
• Viereinhalb Musketiere (1935)
• Catherine the Last (1936)

External links

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