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Thea v. Harbou - Metropolis - Amsterdam, Nederl. Uitgevers-Maatschap, 1930 - 2nd edition - 208 pp. - linen binding - 19 x 13.5 cm.

Condition: Spine slightly slanted, a little bit of foxing, though a more than acceptable copy.

¶ Thea Gabriele von Harbou (Tauperlitz, December 27 1888 – Berlijn, July 1 1954) was a German actrice and author of Prussian noble descent. In 1905 she published her first novel in the Deutsche Roman-Zeitung. In 1906 she started working as an actress in Düsseldorf, after which she moved to Weimar in 1908, Chemnitz in 1911 and Aachen in 1913. In Aachen she meets her first husband, actor and director Rudolf Klein-Rogge, whom she married in 1914. In 1920 she wrote her first film scenario, Das Indische Grabmal, together with Fritz Lang. In 1922 Fritz Lang and  Thea von Harbou get married after her divorce from Rudolf Klein-Rogge, who would keep acting in their movies. Besides scenarios for Fritz Lang, Harbou also wrote for movies by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Carl Theodor Dreyer and Arthur von Gerlach. In 1927 she made, together with her husband, the famous movie Metropolis. The movie premiered in January 1927 in Berlin, but was commercially speaking not a success. despite this, the public was impressed by the special effects in Metropolis, as these would fit even modern movies. The movie was shortened to 80 minutes for the American public, what meant that practically all controversial scenes were eliminated, like the drowning of the children, meetings in nightclubs with exotic dancers, and the scene where God's existence was denied.
In 1931 the couple divorces, though they kept cooperating, until Lang emigrated. In 1933 their divorce becomes final. A number of her regular novels also became movies.
After Lang left the country, von Harbou kept working in Germany. She directed two movies and wrote scenarios for movies by Veit Harlan en Hans Steiniff, who sympathized with the nazi regime.
After 1945 Thea von Harbou was shortly interned. After that she wrote, until her death in 1954, dubbing texts, cheap novels and scenarios. (Source; Wikipedia)
The Dutch translation by Maurits J. Vles with 8 photos from the movie is very rare, with the first edition in 1928 and this second edition in 1930, and can be considered a milestone in film and science fiction literature.

Rare Dutch translation by Maurits J. Vles with 8 photos from the movie. A milestone in film and science fiction literature

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