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Auction History Result 1t015 LOT OF 14 COLOR AND BLACK & WHITE DIE NIBELUNGEN GERMAN POSTCARDS '24 Fritz Lang's classic! Date Sold 4/24/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. German (Learn More) a lot of 14 color and black & white German postcards from Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (released in the U.S. as "Die Nibelungen"), the 1924 Fritz Lang German silent sword-and-sorcery fantasy adventure melodrama (this was a re-telling of the story of the greatest of ancient German folk heroes, Siegfried; Lang had so much material that he split it into two movies, this one being the first, and the sequel being "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache"; both movies were scripted by long-time Lang collaborator Thea von Harbou) starring Paul Richter (in the title role as Siegfried), Margarete Schon, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Bernhard Goetzke, Gertrud Arnold, Hanna Ralph, Theodor Loos and Erwin Biswanger. Note that Thea von Harbou is most famous as the screenwriter of "Metropolis", Fritz Lang's masterpiece. She was a German screenwriter in the 1920s, and she and Lang were married to other people when they met in 1920, but they both divorced and married each other the following year. They collaborated on "Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler", "Metropolis", "M", and also most of Lang's other best remembered movies of the 1920s and early 1930s. But in 1933, when Hitler became more powerful, von Harbou embraced his philosophies while Lang rejected them, and that caused them to divorce, and Lang fled to the U.S. In 1934, von Harbou wrote and directed "Elisabeth und der Narr", followed by "Hanneles Himmelfahrt", and these were the only two movies she directed, and both embraced Hitler's philosophies, which may help explain they are little known today! Of course, Lang directed the classic "Fury" in the U.S. in 1935, and many classic movies over the following years. At the end of World War II, von Harbou claimed that she had never been a supporter of Hitler's, which Lang vehemently denied. Von Harbou remained in Germany and wrote the screenplays around 35 more movies. Oddly, in 1959, five years after her death, Lang directed "Journey to the Lost City", which was based on a novel by von Harbou! Measurements: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"Condition: very good to fine. The cards are in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades Titles included:
  
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