Erwin Biswanger
thumb|right|Erwin Biswanger in Metropolis (1927)
Erwin Paul Biswanger (26 November 1896 in Berlin – 28 October 1944 in Berlin) was a German actor and screenwriter most famous for his role as Georgy in Metropolis (1927).

Life and work
Little is known about Biswanger's life and career. The son of the saddler and upholsterer Carl Biswanger and his wife Marie, née Wilke,Landesarchiv Berlin, Geburtsregister Standesamt Berlin X a, Nr. 2177/1896 (online auf Ancestry.com,  he was born in Berlin where he was in education until 1918 and, according to his own statement, was a student at the beginning of the Weimar Republic. Despite his claim to have served in World War I, he was brought into films by Richard Eichberg in 1918. Biswanger also appeared on stage after his engagement at the Berlin Lessing Theater (1920/21 season). Until 1926, the blonde actor with the distinctive middle parting appeared in front of the camera in a series of mostly less important productions, only his Giselher in Fritz Lang's legendary Nibelungen filmsErwin Biswanger in Nibelungen, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and his worker number 11811, Georgy, in MetropolisGustav Frohlich and Erwin Biswanger in Metropolis (1927), Academy Film Archive, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the same director stand out. 

In 1926 his film career came to an abrupt end, and although he was still listed in the stage yearbooks until the 1930s, Biswanger was no longer permanently engaged at a theatre. Instead, he devoted himself to writing screenplays around the early phase of World War II. In the early 1940s in particular, he collaborated several times with other authors such as the Austrian Alexander Lix. Later, he worked on Harry Piel’s film Panik. He died in 1944 in the sanatorium and care facility in Berlin-Buch.State Archives Berlin, Death Register, Berlin-Buch Registry Office , No. 2826/1944 (online on Ancestry.com) 

 Filmography (selection) 
As an actor
 1918: Der Narr hat sie geküßt
 1919: MorphiumErwin Biswanger, The German Early Cinema Database
 1919: Die Hoffnung auf Segen
 1920: Dieb und Weib
 1920: Uriel Acosta
 1920: Wildes Blut
 1921: Der Mann ohne Nerven
 1921: Unter Räubern und Bestien
 1923: ErdgeistFilmography of Erwin Biswanger, Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
 1923: Der Menschenfeind
 1924: Die Nibelungen, Part 1
 1924: Die Nibelungen, Part 2
 1924: Die Fahrt ins Verderben
 1926: Eternal Allegiance
 1927: Metropolis

As screenwriter
 1939: In letzter Minute
 1940: Tip auf Amalia
 1943: Die große Nummer
 1940–43/53: Panik

 Bibliography 
 Hans Richter (Hrsg.): Filmstern. Richters Handbuch der Schauspieler, Regisseure und Schriftsteller des Films (= Kinojahrbuch. Band 4). Hans Hermann Richter Verlag, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1921/1922, , S. 13.

References

External links
 Erwin Biswanger on Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
 Erwin Biswanger at Filmportal de.

Category:1896 births
Category:1944 deaths
Category:20th-century German male actors
Category:German male film actors
Category:German male silent film actors
Category:German male stage actors