Kurt Gerron
German Jewish film actor, director and singer murdered at Auschwitz (1897-1944) · Actors · Died at 47
Kurt Gerron was a German Jewish actor and film director. He had a very successful career in cabaret and film before World War II, but was then forbidden to work and was sent to Theresienstadt Ghetto after the Nazis had occupied the Netherlands, where he and his family had fled to.
Kurt Gerron is read about 96 times a day, in 27 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 111 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
TheresienstadtFilm, 1944Director, Writer1940
The Eternal JewFilm, (archive footage)1936
Merijntje Gijzen's BoyhoodFilm, Director1935
The Mystery of the Moonlight SonataFilm, Director1933
Her Majesty LoveFilm, Hornberg1932
A Mad IdeaFilm, Director1930
BurglarsFilm, Polizeikommissar1929
Daughter of the RegimentFilm, Quippo1928
AccidentFilm1927
A Crazy NightFilm, Wachtmeister Lehmkuhl1925
VarietyFilm, Hafenarbeiter1924
Die SchmiedeFilm1921Der Held des TagesFilm1897Born11 May 1897Known for
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The Blue Angel 1930
Diary of a Lost Girl 1929
People on Sunday 1930
The Eternal Jew 1940
People around Kurt
Close ties
Alfred Abel Also in A Day of Roses in August (1927)
Richard Oswald Directed A Crazy Night and Assassination
Erich Pommer Produced The Blue Angel and Variety
Hans Albers Also in The Blue Angel and Monte Carlo Madness
Manfred Noa Directed The Great Unknown (1927)
Willy Schmidt-Gentner Wrote The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
Heinz Rühmann Also in The Three from the Filling Station (1930)
Sig Arno Also in Diary of a Lost Girl (1930)
Ida Wüst Also in Monte Carlo Madness and No Money Needed
Paul Rehkopf Also in Variety and White Slave Traffic
Willi Wolff Directed The Lady with the Tiger Skin (1927)
Peter Lorre Kurt directed The White Demon and Narcotics
Käthe von Nagy Also in Her Majesty the Barmaid (1931)
Eugen Burg Also in Dancing Vienna and His Greatest Bluff
Hubert von Meyerinck Kurt directed The White Demon and My Wife
Paul Henckels Also in Monte Carlo Madness and Burglars
Carl Boese Directed No Money Needed and The White Spider
Eduard von Winterstein Also in The Blue Angel (1930)
Hermann Picha Also in The Three Mannequins and Dancing Vienna
Hanns Schwarz Directed Monte Carlo Madness and Burglars
Raoul Aslan Kurt directed The White Demon and Narcotics
Sophie Pagay Also in White Slave Traffic (1926)
Jaap Speyer Directed The Three Mannequins (1926)
Arnold Pressburger Produced The Golden Butterfly (1926)
Filmography 40
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Media & music
About this person
He was forced by the Nazis to make a propaganda film about Theresienstadt, officially named Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet, before he and his wife, Olga Gerson-Meyer, were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. The film was completed not long before the end of the war, but was never shown to the public, and only fragments remain.
