Carl Auen
Carl Theodor floodplains ( born February 16, 1892 in Dusseldorf, † June 23, 1972 in Berlin light field ) was a German film actor.
Life
Carl Auen stood since 1914 in numerous silent films before the camera, often under the direction of Franz Hofer, William Kahn, Leo Lasko and Wolfgang Neff, and often in the role of handsome nobleman and gentlemen. Its success is founded two film series in which he embodied the criminologists Anheim Council (from 1917) and the detective Joe Deebs (from 1919). The highlight of his career were in the 1920s, successful films such as women's destiny (1922 ), Lyda Sanin (1923 ), Ash Wednesday (1924 /25) and one against all (1926 /27).
Floodplain was before the "seizure of power " by the Nazis to the nationalist -minded, anti -Semitic League of Struggle for German Culture and the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization. In the sound film, to which he joined at the age of 40 years and after 107 silent film roles in 1932, Carl Auen only appeared in supporting roles. However, Joseph Goebbels liked him enough to appoint him in 1933 to head the student council of the film Reichsfilmkammer, a key position in the personnel policy within the Nazi film industry. 1937 Carl Auen played in the movie propaganda Togger a police officer and took in Richard Eichberg's double film The Tiger and The Indian Tomb of Eschnapur the last time a small movie role.
After the end of World War II was Carl Auen representative for spirits.