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Walter Turszinsky
actor, director, writer
- Born:
- 1874-01-09, Danzig, Pomerania, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]
- Died:
- 1915-05-21, Berlin, Germany
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
A winter baby, Walter Turszinsky drew his first breath on 9 January 1874 amid the gabled rooftops of Danzig—then German, today Polish Gdańsk. Behind the camera he spun stories rather than wrote them in ink, crafting the 1914 melodrama *Gretchen Wendland*, the same year’s rallying cry *The Dawn of Freedom*, and the 1915 folk-bandit fable *Der springende Hirsch oder Die Diebe von Günstersburg*. Four months after that last picture premiered, the 41-year-old filmmaker’s own reel ran out in Berlin on 21 May 1915.
