

Erik Charell
- Category : 1894-births
- Type : PSP
- Profile : 4/1 - Opportunistic / Investigator
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : JX Shock
Biography
German theatre and film director, dancer and actor, best known as the creator of musical revues and operettas, such as White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rössl) and The Congress Dances (Der Kongress tanzt).
Many actors and singers, such as Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Schmidt, Max Hansen and Camilla Spira, who all became famous later, first appeared in major roles in Charell productions. Charell also discovered the boy group Comedian Harmonists and presented them for the first time in Casanova at the Große Schauspielhaus.
When the Nazis took over in January 1933, the Ufa immediately annulled their contract with Charell because he was of Jewish descent.
In 1936, Charell staged a successful Broadway production of White Horse Inn. After the war, Charell returned to Europe. In 1969 he received the German movie prize, the Filmband in Gold, for his “excellent works and outstanding contributions to the history of German cinema”. He died on 15 July 1974 in Munich, aged 80.