Rudolf Meinert (1882–6 March 1943) was an

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n screenwriter, film producer and director. Meinert was born Rudolf Bürstein in

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, but worked for most of his career in the German film industry. He became well-established as the producer/director of silent crime films. In the immediate post-

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period, Meinert was head of production at the German studio Decla after his own production unit Meinert-Film was taken over by the larger outfit. Meinert, rather than Erich Pommer, is sometimes credited as the producer behind Decla's revolutionary ''

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takeover of power in Germany, Meinert, who was

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, went into exile in the

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, however he returned to Austria. He moved to France in 1937 and live there until he was caught, sent to Drancy internment camp and transported to Majdanek concentration camp on 6 March 1943, where he died.Rudolf Meinert-Bürstein
in the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database

Selected filmography

Director

* '' Der Hund von Baskerville'' (1914) * '' Vengeance Is Mine'' (1916) * '' Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * '' The Monastery of Sendomir'' (1919) * '' Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * '' The Red Mouse'' (1926) * '' The Eleven Schill Officers'' (1926) * '' The Vice of Humanity'' (1927) * '' The Convicted'' (1927) * '' The Case of Prosecutor M'' (1928) * '' The White Roses of Ravensberg'' (1929) * '' The Green Monocle'' (1929) * '' Masks'' (1929) * '' The Song of the Nations'' (1931) * '' The Eleven Schill Officers'' (1932) * '' Het Meisje met den Blauwen Hoed'' (1934) * ''

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'' (1934)

Producer

* '' Vengeance Is Mine'' (1916) * ''

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'' (1920) * ''

'' (1920) * '' Father Voss'' (1925) * '' Escape from Hell'' (1928) * '' The Song of the Nations'' (1931)

Actor

* '' The Eleven Schill Officers'' (1926) * '' The Song of the Nations'' (1931)

References

Bibliography

* Eisner, Lotte H. ''The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt''. University of California Press, 2008. * Hardt, Usula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996. * Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The Ufa story: a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918-1945''. University of California Press, 1999. * St. Pierre, Paul Matthew. ''E.A. Dupont and his Contribution to British Film: Varieté, Moulin Rouge, Piccadilly, Atlantic, Two Worlds, Cape Forlorn''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010. * Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933''. Berghahn Books, 2007.

External links

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