Curiosidades

Father of actress Agnes Bernelle.

He also composed some well-known songs like "Die Männer sind alle Verbrecher" and "Und Meyer sieht mich freundlich an".

As a librettist he wrote text for the operettas "Der tapfere Soldat" (1908), "Der liebe Augustin" (1912), "Wie einst im Mai" (1913), "Die wunderliche Geschcihte des Kapellmeisters Kreisler" (1922) and "Kreslers Eckfenster" (1923).

Bernauer was Jewish Hungarian but he converted to Roman Catholicism in the mid-1930s along with Bernelle. His wife, Bernelle's mother Emmy, was a German Protestant.

With the rise of the National Socialists Rudolf Bernauer had to emigrate from Germany and he went to London. His citizenship was subdued.

His autobiography "Theater meines Lebens. Erinnerungen" ("Theater of my life: Memories"), was published in Berlin in 1955.

His last cinematical works were "Hatter's Castle" (1942) and "Give Me the Stars" (1945).

He staged a total of two movies, but wrote screenplays and texts for some other films.

The screenwriter and librettist Rudolf Bernauer came to the theater in 1900 where he worked as an actor in Berlin. He soon became a theater manager, among other for the "Berliner Theater", the "Hebbel-Theater", the "Komödienhaus" and the "Theater am Nollenpla.

Rudolf Bernauer was among others married with the singer Henry Remilly.

A first movie after his screenplay came in 1916 into being with "Bummelstudenten" (16), in the next years he wrote more screenplays, some of them based on his libretti.

In 1935, he emigrated (fled) to London. He had a large apartment at Viktoria-Luise-Platz 1, in Berlin-Schöneberg (Germany), but the whole building was destroyed during the war. On a new building at this address in 1998 a memorial plaque was dedicated to him. The unveiling of the plaque was attended by his daughter, the actress Agnes Bernelle.