Johannes Meyer (director)

Johannes Meyer
Born	13 August 1888 Brieg, Silesia, German Empire
Died	25 January 1976 Marburg, Hesse, West Germany
Occupation(s)	Director, Writer
Years active	1921-1951 (film)

Johannes Meyer (13 August 1888 – 25 January 1976) was a German screenwriter and film director. He directed a number of films during the Weimar, Nazi and post-War eras, most notably Fridericus (1936), one in a series of epics about Frederick the Great.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Horrido (1924)
• The Poacher (1926)
• Guilty (1928)
• High Treason (1929)
• The Blonde Nightingale (1930)
• The Rhineland Girl (1930)
• The Tiger Murder Case (1930)
• Ash Wednesday (1931)
• Alarm at Midnight (1931)
• I'll Stay with You (1931)
• Two Heavenly Blue Eyes (1932)
• Under False Flag (1932)
• Happy Days in Aranjuez (1933)
• Die kleine Schwindlerin (1933)
• There Is Only One Love (1933)
• Goodbye, Beautiful Days (1933)
• Black Fighter Johanna (1934)
• The Fugitive from Chicago (1934)
• The Legacy of Pretoria (1934)
• Fridericus (1937)
• Beate's Mystery (1938)
• Der singende Tor (1939)
• Marriage in Small Doses (1939)
• Wild Bird (1943)
• Rätsel der Nacht (1945)
• Blocked Signals (1948)
• I'll Never Forget That Night (1949)
• Furioso (1950)

References

1. Richards p.316

Bibliography

• Richards, Jeffrey. Visions of Yesterday. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
• Taylor, Richard. Film propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. I.B. Tauris, 1998.

External links

• Johannes Meyer at IMDb