Biography

From 1918 Georg Burghardt also directed films, without having achieved big success.

With the seizure of power by the National Socialists, the actor was increasingly isolated from 1933. Georg Burghardt was a Protestant, but came from a Jewish family and was therefore unable to provide proof of Aryan origin. In the years that followed, he lived on 19 Reichsmarks a month in welfare support. A letter of request written in 1937 to his colleague Eugen Klöpfer, who was close to the Nazis and managed the Goebbels-Stiftung Künstlerdank, was rejected by him in March 1938.

In the second half of 1920, Burghardt left the Bavarian capital and moved to Berlin. There one could see the versatile artist at the Walhalla-Theater and at the Residenz-Theater. At the same time he made himself a name as a dramaturge and arranger of farces and folk plays penned by Erdmann Graeser.

Besides his activity as an actor Georg Burghardt also realised several movies as a director.

From 1900 to 1918 he acted at the Munich Playhouse. During this time he was brought in front of the camera for the first time by the film production company Emelka and played leading roles as Georg Burghardt in serious, patriotic edifying plays (such as The Heroic Girl from the Vosges) as well as in comedies (Uncle Tobias as the Guardian of Virtue) and crime stories (for example Franz Seitzen's The Gentleman with the Mastiff).