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Erich Karl Löwenberg (8 April 1894 – 15 July 1974), known as Erik Charell, [1] was a German theatre and film director, dancer and actor. He is best known as the creator of musical revues and operettas, such as The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rössl) and The Congress Dances (Der Kongress tanzt).
Jan 1, 2021 · Since Erik Charell is one of the most famous gay operetta directors and producers, his career at Großes Schauspielhaus in 1920s Berlin was presented, his early “Tonfilmoperette” Der Kongress tanzt (1931) which was his ticket to Hollywood and out of Germany before the Nazis took over in 1933, but also his career in the USA was outlined ...
Erik Charell was born on 9 April 1895 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and director, known for Congress Dances (1931), Fireworks (1954) and Im Weissen Rössl (1952). He died on 15 July 1974 in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Mar 2, 2017 · Erik Charell. His credits include script contributions to the Hope-Crosby comedy Road to Morocco and the Tony Martin musical Casbah. To learn this after seeing his only two features as director, The Congress Dances (1931) and Caravan (1934), is like discovering there was a guy called Orson Welles who made Citizen Kane and The Magnificent ...
Sep 15, 2015 · Born Erich Karl Löwenberg, Erik Charell first came to prominence as a professional dancer in Berlin, where he was often compared to Vaslav Najinski.
Schwules Museum will present the first exhibition on “the German Mr. Ziegfeld”: stage director and theatrical legend, Erik Charell (1894-1974), the creator of the 1920s glamorous revues at the Grosse Schauspielhaus, revues that starred Marlene Dietrich, the Comedian Harmonist, Joseph Schmidt, Siegfried Arno, Max Hansen, Claire Waldoff and ...
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