Norbert Falk

Norbert Falk
File:Norbert Falk (BerlLeben 1905-07).jpg
Born	(1872-11-05)5 November 1872 Hranice, Austria-Hungary
Died	16 September 1932(1932-09-16) (aged 59) Berlin, Germany
Occupations	Screenwriter, journalist
Years active	1896–1928

Norbert Falk, also credited as Fred Orbing (5 November 1872 – 16 September 1932), was an Austrian journalist, screenwriter and writer. He is best known as a screenwriter for German films made under the Weimar Republic, such as Madame Dubarry (1919), Anna Boleyn (1920), Rosita (1923) and Der Kongreß tanzt (1931). He wrote as journalist for German newspaper B.Z. am Mittag.

Selected filmography

• Carmen (1918)
• A Waltz Dream (1925)
• The Loves of Casanova (1927)
• The White Slave (1927)
• Orient (1928)
• Pawns of Passion (1928)
• The Case of Prosecutor M (1928)
• Secrets of the Orient (1928)
• The Last Night (1928)
• Two Worlds (1930)
• Congress Dances (1932)

Bibliography

• (in German) Kay Weniger: Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Volume 2, p 609. Berlin (2001)

External links

• Norbert Falk at IMDb
• (in German) Norbert Falk on filmportal.de
• Norbert Falk – short biography on biographien.ac.at