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Thea Gabriele von Harbou (27 December 1888 – 1 July 1954) was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress. She is remembered as the screenwriter of the science fiction film classic Metropolis (1927) and for the 1925 novel on which it was based. von Harbou collaborated as a screenwriter with film director Fritz Lang , her husband, during the period of transition from silent to sound films .
Thea von Harbou was born on 27 December 1888 in Tauperlitz, Döhlau, Bavaria, Germany. She was a writer and director, known for Metropolis (1927), M (1931) and Woman in the Moon (1929). She was married to Fritz Lang and Rudolf Klein-Rogge.
Metropolis. (novel) Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by the German writer Thea von Harbou. The novel was based on the screenplay for Fritz Lang 's 1927 film Metropolis, on which von Harbou and Lang collaborated in 1924.
Thea Gabriele von Harbou (* 27. Dezember 1888 in Tauperlitz, heute zu Döhlau; † 1. Juli 1954 in Berlin-Charlottenburg) war eine deutsche Theaterschauspielerin, Drehbuchautorin, Regisseurin und Schriftstellerin. Sie schrieb die Drehbücher zu einigen der bekanntesten deutschen Stummfilme – so zum Beispiel zum Klassiker Metropolis von Fritz ...
Hanneles Himmelfahrt (dir. Thea von Harbou, 1934) - Screenplay based on The Assumption of Hannele by Gerhart Hauptmann. What Am I Without You (dir. Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 1934) Elisabeth and the Fool (dir. Thea von Harbou), 1934) Princess Turandot (dir. Gerhard Lamprecht, 1934) - Screenplay based on Turandot.
Thea von Harbou, one of three German screenwriters who Pudovkin singles out, stands alongside Carl Mayer as one of the most influential film figures in Weimar German cinema, which spanned the years 1919 to 1933. Including an excerpt from Harbou’s script for Spione (1928), an espionage adventure film, Pudovkin goes on to praise the novelist ...
Thea von Harbou was born into a financially unstable aristocratic family in 1888, the same year emotionally unstable Wilhelm II became kaiser of Germany. Her father worked as a chief forester, and young Thea grew up surrounded by woods and meadows.
