List of works by Thea von Harbou

Thea Gabriele von Harbou (27 December 1888 – 1 July 1954) was a German screenwriter, novelist and film director.^[1]

Filmography[edit]

Harbou made the following films.^[1]

Screenwriter[edit]

• The Legend of Holy Simplicity (dir. Joe May, 1920)
• The Wandering Image (dir. Fritz Lang, 1920)
• The Women of Gnadenstein (dir. Robert Dinesen and Joe May, 1921)
• Four Around a Woman (dir. Fritz Lang, 1921) - Screenplay based on a play by Rolf E. Vanloo
• Destiny (dir. Fritz Lang, 1921)
• The Indian Tomb (dir. Joe May, 1921)
• The Burning Soil (dir. F. W. Murnau, 1922)
• Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (dir. Fritz Lang, 1922) - Screenplay based on Dr. Mabuse by Norbert Jacques
• Phantom (dir. F. W. Murnau, 1922) - Screenplay based on a novel by Gerhart Hauptmann
• Princess Suwarin (dir. Johannes Guter, 1923) - Screenplay based on a novel by Ludwig Wolff
• The Expulsion (dir. F. W. Murnau, 1923) - Screenplay based on a play by Carl Hauptmann [de]
• The Grand Duke's Finances (dir. F. W. Murnau, 1924) - Screenplay based on a novel by Frank Heller
• Die Nibelungen—Part 1: Siegfried (dir. Fritz Lang, 1924) - Screenplay based on the Nibelungenlied
• Die Nibelungen—Part 2: Kriemhild's Revenge (dir. Fritz Lang, 1924) - Screenplay based on the Nibelungenlied
• Michael (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1924) - Screenplay based on a novel by Herman Bang
• Chronicles of the Gray House (dir. Arthur von Gerlach [de], 1925) - Screenplay based on a novella by Theodor Storm
• Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang, 1927)
• Spione (dir. Fritz Lang, 1928)
• Woman in the Moon (dir. Fritz Lang, 1929)
• M (dir. Fritz Lang, 1931)
• The First Right of the Child (dir. Fritz Wendhausen, 1932)
• The Marathon Runner (dir. E. A. Dupont, 1933) - Screenplay based on a novel by Werner Scheff
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (dir. Fritz Lang, 1933) - Screenplay based on Dr. Mabuse by Norbert Jacques
• 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
• The Old and the Young King (dir. Hans Steinhoff, 1935)
• An Ideal Husband (dir. Herbert Selpin, 1935) - Screenplay based on An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
• I Was Jack Mortimer (dir. Carl Froelich, 1935) - Screenplay based on I Was Jack Mortimer by Alexander Lernet-Holenia
• Der Mann mit der Pranke (dir. Rudolf van der Noss, 1935) - Screenplay based on a novel by Fritz Zeckendorf [de]
• The Impossible Woman (dir. Johannes Meyer, 1936) - Screenplay based on a novel by Mia Fellmann
• Escapade (dir. Erich Waschneck, 1936) - Screenplay based on My Official Wife by Richard Henry Savage
• A Woman of No Importance (dir. Hans Steinhoff, 1936) - Screenplay based on A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
• The Ruler (dir. Veit Harlan, 1937) - Screenplay based on a play by Gerhart Hauptmann
• Don't Promise Me Anything (dir. Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1937) - Screenplay based on a play by Charlotte Rissmann
• The Broken Jug (dir. Gustav Ucicky, 1937) - Screenplay based on The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist
• Mother Song (dir. Carmine Gallone, 1937)
• Youth [it] (dir. Veit Harlan, 1938) - Screenplay based on a play by Max Halbe
• The Woman at the Crossroads (dir. Josef von Báky, 1938) - Screenplay based on a novel by Alice Lyttkens [sv]
• Covered Tracks (dir. Veit Harlan, 1938) - Screenplay based on a radio drama by Hans Rothe
• Stars of Variety (dir. Josef von Báky, 1939)
• Hurrah! I'm a Father (dir. Kurt Hoffmann, 1939)
• Lauter Liebe (dir. Heinz Rühmann, 1940)
• Wie konntest Du, Veronika! (dir. Milo Harbich, 1940)
• Am Abend auf der Heide [de] (dir. Jürgen von Alten, 1940) - Screenplay based on a novel by F. B. Cortan
• Clarissa (dir. Gerhard Lamprecht, 1941) (uncredited)
• Annelie (dir. Josef von Báky, 1941) - Screenplay based on a play by Walter Lieck [de]
• With the Eyes of a Woman (dir. Karl Georg Külb, 1942) - Screenplay based on a novel by Zsolt Harsányi
• Maria Malibran (dir. Guido Brignone, 1943)
• Gefährtin meines Sommers (dir. Fritz Peter Buch, 1943) - Screenplay based on a novel by Klaus-Erich Boerner [de]
• Die Gattin [de] (dir. Georg Jacoby, 1943) - Screenplay based on two plays by János Bókay [hu]
• A Wife for Three Days (dir. Fritz Kirchhoff, 1944) - Screenplay based on a novel by Elisabeth Gürt [de]
• Via Mala (dir. Josef von Báky, 1945) - Screenplay based on Via Mala by John Knittel
• Journey to Happiness (dir. Erich Engel, 1944/1948)
• Erzieherin gesucht [de] (dir. Ulrich Erfurth, 1944/1950)
• A Day Will Come (dir. Rudolf Jugert, 1950) - Screenplay based on a novella by Ernst Penzoldt
• Dr. Holl (dir. Rolf Hansen, 1951)
• Your Heart Is My Homeland (dir. Richard Häussler, 1953) - Screenplay based on a novel by Irmgard Wurmbrand

Director[edit]

• Elisabeth and the Fool (1934)
• Hanneles Himmelfahrt (1934)

Books[edit]

Harbou wrote the following books.^[2]

• Wenn's Morgen wird, 1905
• Weimar: Ein Sommertagstraum, verse stories 1908
• Die nach uns kommen, a village novel, 1910
• Von Engeln und Teufelchen, ten stories, 1913
• Deutsche Frauen. Bilder stillen Heldentums, five stories, 1914
• Der unsterbliche Acker, a war novel, 1915
• Gold im Feuer, novel, 1915
• Der Krieg und die Frauen, eight stories, 1915
• Die Masken des Todes. Sieben Geschichten in einer, 1915
• Die Flucht der Beate Hoyermann, 1916
• Die Deutsche Frau im Weltkrieg, essays, 1916
• Aus Abend und Morgen ein neuer Tag, 1916
• Du junge Wacht am Rhein!, 1917
• Adrian Drost und sein Land, 1918
• Das indische Grabmal (The Indian Tomb), 1918, English translation 2016
• Der belagerte Tempel, 1917
• Die nach uns kommen, 1918
• Legenden, five stories including "Holy Simplicity"), 1919
• Sonderbare Heilige, ten stories, 1919
• Die unheilige Dreifaltigkeit, 1920
• Das Haus ohne Tür und Fenster, 1920
• Gute Kameraden, 1920
• Gedichte, 1920
• Das Nibelungenbuch, 1924
• Mondscheinprinzeßchen, 1925
• Metropolis, 1925, English translation 1927
• Der Insel der Unsterblichen, 1926
• Mann zwischen Frauen, 1927
• Frau im Mond (The Rocket to the Moon), 1928, English translation 1930
• Spione, 1929
• Du bist unmöglich, Jo!, novel, 1931
• Liebesbriefe aus St. Florin; Novella, 1935
• Aufblühender Lotos, 1941
• Der Dieb von Bagdad, 1949
• Gartenstraße 64, 1952

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