Background
Martin Hellberg was born in 1905 in Dresden as a son of a pastor.
Martin Hellberg was born in 1905 in Dresden as a son of a pastor.
From 1922 to 1924 Martin Hellberg studied at the Dresdner Konservatorium.
He was a pupil of the director Georg Kiesau. From 1924 until 1933 he worked at the Staatlichen Schauspielhaus Dresden (theater). However, he was fired by the Nazis in 1933.
He first worked as a freelance and then became a senior director in Freiburg i.
Branch Then the Narzis forbid him to appear on stage again. In 1935 Hellberg made first appearance as an film actor in Die blonde Carmen.
In 1952 followed his debut as a director in The Condemned Village. In 1958 he was the director and writer of the movie Emilia Galotti.
In 1959 he directed and wrote Kabale und Liebe, in which he also appeared as an actor.
In 1962 he was the director and an actor in the film Minna von Barnhelm oder Das Soldatenglück. In 1964 he wrote and directed the movie Viel Lärm um nichts. Martin Hellberg was married to Berta Gurewitsch from 1926 to 1935.
Tumarkin"s youngest son and Hellberg"s grandson Yon is a well known Israeli actor.
Ruth Baldor was an actress and appeared in several of Hellbergs films. The couple separated at the end of the sixties.
During his last years as a writer, director and actor Hellberg worked and lived in Bad Berka near Weimar.