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Hanns Heinz Ewers

Poet / Writer / Screenwriter / Actor / Film Director | * 11/03/1871 († 71, 06/12/1943) | Düsseldorf / Dusseldorf (Germany)
Hanns Heinz Ewers (3 November 1871 – 12 June 1943) was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his trilogy of novels about the adventures of Frank Braun, a character modeled on himself. The best known of these is Alraune (1911). ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Science Fiction | Horror

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It is a variation on the original legend of Alraune in which a Mad Scientist creates a beautiful but demonic child from the forced union between a woman and a Mandrake root. Not to be confused with th ...

Alraune

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1918 | 1h 20min
Science Fiction, Horror
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Mad scientist, doctor Ten Brinken artificially inseminates a prostitute with a dead man's semen. The resulting child grows up to be a beautiful, evil woman who turns against her creator. ...

Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne

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1918 | 1h 28min
Horror, Science Fiction
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Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, ...

A Daughter Of Destiny

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1928 | 3.5/5 | 1h 48min
Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror
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Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning. ...

The Student of Prague

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1913 | 3.0/5 | 1h 25min
Drama, Fantasy
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Movies with Hanns Heinz Ewers as Actor(1)

as himself1913 The Student of Prague

Movies with Hanns Heinz Ewers as Crew(14)

Writing/Writer1970 La fenêtre
Writing/Novel1952 Alraune
Writing/Novel1935 The Student of Prague
Writing/Screenplay1933 Hans Westmar
Writing/Novel1933 Hans Westmar
Writing/Novel1930 Alraune
Writing/Novel1928 A Daughter Of Destiny
Writing/Writer1926 The Student of Prague
Writing/Novel1919 Alraune and the Golem
Writing/Novel1918 Alraune
Directing/Director1913 The Ideal Wife
Writing/Writer1913 The Ideal Wife
Writing/Writer1913 Die Eisbraut
Writing/Screenplay1913 The Student of Prague

Full Name: Hanns Ewers
Born: Friday, 11/03 1871 (November) in Düsseldorf / Dusseldorf (Germany)
Died: Saturday, 06/12 1943 (June) in Berlin (aged: 71)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: German (DE)
Member of: Corps Normannia Berlin, Corps Alemannia Wien zu Linz
Spouses (current/former): Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald
Other names for Hanns Heinz Ewers (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Hans Heinrich Ewers"
"H.H. Ewers"
Hanns Heinz Ewers frequently works together with these people:
Samir A. Khouri (4x, Crew)
Paul Wegener (4x, Actor)
Henrik Galeen (4x, Crew)
Stellan Rye (3x, Crew)
Brigitte Helm (2x, Actress)
Theodor Loos (2x, Actor)
Richard Oswald (2x, Crew)
Lyda Salmonova (2x, Actress)
Guido Seeber (2x, Crew)
Grete Berger (2x, Actress)
Günther Krampf (2x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:276157, Added: 08/09/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024