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Dr. Mabuse

January 12, 2023

This article is about the literary figure created by Norbert Jacques. For other uses of the name, see Mabuse (disambiguation).

Dr. Mabuse is a fictional character created by Norbert Jacques in his 1921 novel Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ('Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler'), and his 1932 follow-up novel Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1932).

The character was made famous by three films about the character directed in Germany by Fritz Lang: Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (silent, 1922) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) and the much later The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960). Five other films featuring Dr. Mabuse were made by other directors in Germany in the early 1960s, followed by Jess Franco's interpretation The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse in 1971.

Dr Mabuse

Although the character was deliberately written to mimic villains such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Guy Boothby's Doctor Nikola, Fantômas, or Svengali, the last of which was a direct inspiration, Jacques' goals were commercial success and to make political comments, in much the same way that the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) had done just a few years previously.

Description

Dr. Mabuse is a master of disguise and telepathic hypnosis known to employ body transference, most often through demonic possession, but sometimes utilizing object technologies such as television or phonograph machines, to build a "society of crime". Mabuse rarely commits his crimes in person, instead operating primarily through a network of agents enacting his schemes. Mabuse's agents range from career criminals working for him, to innocents blackmailed or hypnotized into cooperation, to dupes manipulated so successfully that they do not realize that they are doing exactly what Mabuse planned for them to do.

Mabuse's identity often changes; one "Dr. Mabuse" may be defeated and sent to an asylum, jail or the grave, only for a new "Dr. Mabuse" to later appear, as depicted in The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. The replacement invariably has the same methods, the same powers of hypnosis and the same criminal genius. There are even suggestions in some installments of the series that the "real" Mabuse is some sort of spirit that possesses a series of hosts.

Mabuse has had a number of nemeses, with the main ones including Prosecutor (or Chief Inspector) von Wenk in Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (played by Bernhard Goetzke) and Kommissar Karl Lohmann (played variously by Otto Wernicke and Gert Fröbe as "Inspector Carl Lohemann").

History

Mabuse first appeared in the 1921 German novel Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ("Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler") by Norbert Jacques. The novel benefitted from unprecedented publicity and quickly became a best-seller. Fritz Lang, already an accomplished director, worked with his wife Thea von Harbou on a revision of the novel to bring it to the screen, where it also became a great success. The film Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922), with a playing time of more than four hours, was released in two sections: The Great Gambler: An Image of the Time and Inferno: A Game for the People of our Age.

Despite the success of the novel and the film, it was almost a decade before anything more was done with the character. Jacques had been working on a sequel to the novel, named Mabuse's Colony, in which Mabuse has died and a group of his devotees are starting an island colony, based on the principles described by Mabuse's manifesto. However, the novel was unfinished. After conversations with Lang and von Harbou, Jacques agreed to discontinue the novel and the sequel instead became the 1933 movie The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, in which the Mabuse of 1922 – played again by Rudolf Klein-Rogge – is an inmate in an insane asylum but has for some time been obsessively writing meticulous plans for crime and terrorism, plans that are being performed by a gang of criminals outside the asylum, who receive their orders from a person who has identified himself to them only as Dr. Mabuse.

Filmography

English title Original title Release date Dr. Mabuse played by: Ref(s)
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler: Part I — The Great Gambler: A Picture of the Times Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler I: Der große Spieler. Ein Bild der Zeit 27 April 1922 Rudolf Klein-Rogge [1]
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler: Part II — Inferno: The Game of the People of our Time Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler II: Inferno. Ein Spiel von Menschen unserer Zeit 26 May 1922 Rudolf Klein-Rogge [1]
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse April 1933 Rudolf Klein-Rogge [2]
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse September 14, 1960 Wolfgang Preiss [3]
The Return of Doctor Mabuse Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse October 13, 1961 Wolfgang Preiss [4]
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse March 30, 1962 Wolfgang Preiss [5]
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (remake) September 7, 1962 Wolfgang Preiss [6]
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse (aka Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard) Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse September 20, 1963 Wolfgang Preiss [7]
The Secret of Dr. Mabuse (aka The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse) Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse September 18, 1964 Wolfgang Preiss (archive footage)/Claudio Gora [8]
The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse (aka La Venganza del Doctor Mabuse) Dr. M schlägt zu [de] 1971/72 Jack Taylor [9][10][circular reference]
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press [de] (a.k.a. The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press) Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse 1984 Delphine Seyrig
Dr. M Docteur M 1990 Alan Bates [11]
Doctor Mabuse 2013 Jerry Lacy [12]
Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar 2014 Jerry Lacy [13]
The Thousand and One Lives of Doctor Mabuse 2020 Jerry Lacy [14][15]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Dr. Mabuse, Master of Mystery (Original title: Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler. 1921) – English translation by Lilian A. Clare published in 1923.
  • Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse – Written in the early 1930s, but not published until 1950 under the title Dr. Mabuses letztes Spiel.[16] In the late 1980s, it was reprinted under its original title Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse.[16]
  • Mabuses Kolonie – Unfinished novel that was written in 1930 and published in 1994.
  • Mabuse also appears in Jacques's 1923 sci-fi novel Ingenieur Mars.[17]
  • Jacques wrote a novel called Der Chemiker des Dr. Mabuse, but he ultimately removed all references to Mabuse from it and serialized it in 1934 under the title Chemiker Null.[18]

Short stories

  • "Dr. Mabuse auf dem Presseball" (1923)

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler I: Der große Spieler. Ein Bild der Zeit". Filmportal.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  2. ^ "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse". Filmportal.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  3. ^ "Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse". Filmportal.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  4. ^ "Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse | filmportal.de". www.filmportal.de.
  5. ^ "Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse". Filmportal.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  6. ^ "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse". Filmportal.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  7. ^ "Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse". Filmportal.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  8. ^ "Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse". Filmportal.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  9. ^ "Dr. M schlägt zu". Filmportal.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  10. ^ "La venganza del doctor Mabuse". it.wikipedia.org. Retrieved July 23, 2019.
  11. ^ "Dr". Filmportal.de. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  12. ^ "Doctor Mabuse (2013)". Hollinsworth Productions. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  13. ^ "Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar (2014)". Hollinsworth Productions. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  14. ^ "The Thousand and One Lives of Doctor Mabuse (2020)". IMDB.com. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
  15. ^ "THE THOUSAND AND ONE LIVES OF DOCTOR MABUSE (2020) - Short Film". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 – via www.youtube.com.
  16. ^ a b Kalat 2001, p. 19.
  17. ^ Kalat 2001, p. 17.
  18. ^ Kalat 2001, p. 18.

Sources

  • Kalat, David (2001). The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse: A Study of the Twelve Movies and Five Novels. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 0786423374.

Further reading

  • Haase, Holger: The Many Masks of Dr. Mabuse: Mabuse in the 1960s. (Kindle 2020)

External links

  •   Media related to Dr. Mabuse at Wikimedia Commons

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This article is about the literary figure created by Norbert Jacques For other uses of the name see Mabuse disambiguation Dr Mabuse is a fictional character created by Norbert Jacques in his 1921 novel Dr Mabuse der Spieler Dr Mabuse the Gambler and his 1932 follow up novel Das Testament des Dr Mabuse 1932 The character was made famous by three films about the character directed in Germany by Fritz Lang Dr Mabuse the Gambler silent 1922 The Testament of Dr Mabuse 1933 and the much later The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse 1960 Five other films featuring Dr Mabuse were made by other directors in Germany in the early 1960s followed by Jess Franco s interpretation The Vengeance of Dr Mabuse in 1971 Dr Mabuse Although the character was deliberately written to mimic villains such as Dr Fu Manchu Guy Boothby s Doctor Nikola Fantomas or Svengali the last of which was a direct inspiration Jacques goals were commercial success and to make political comments in much the same way that the film The Cabinet of Dr Caligari 1920 had done just a few years previously Contents 1 Description 2 History 3 Filmography 4 Bibliography 5 References 6 External linksDescription EditDr Mabuse is a master of disguise and telepathic hypnosis known to employ body transference most often through demonic possession but sometimes utilizing object technologies such as television or phonograph machines to build a society of crime Mabuse rarely commits his crimes in person instead operating primarily through a network of agents enacting his schemes Mabuse s agents range from career criminals working for him to innocents blackmailed or hypnotized into cooperation to dupes manipulated so successfully that they do not realize that they are doing exactly what Mabuse planned for them to do Mabuse s identity often changes one Dr Mabuse may be defeated and sent to an asylum jail or the grave only for a new Dr Mabuse to later appear as depicted in The Testament of Dr Mabuse The replacement invariably has the same methods the same powers of hypnosis and the same criminal genius There are even suggestions in some installments of the series that the real Mabuse is some sort of spirit that possesses a series of hosts Mabuse has had a number of nemeses with the main ones including Prosecutor or Chief Inspector von Wenk in Dr Mabuse the Gambler played by Bernhard Goetzke and Kommissar Karl Lohmann played variously by Otto Wernicke and Gert Frobe as Inspector Carl Lohemann History EditMabuse first appeared in the 1921 German novel Dr Mabuse der Spieler Dr Mabuse the Gambler by Norbert Jacques The novel benefitted from unprecedented publicity and quickly became a best seller Fritz Lang already an accomplished director worked with his wife Thea von Harbou on a revision of the novel to bring it to the screen where it also became a great success The film Dr Mabuse the Gambler 1922 with a playing time of more than four hours was released in two sections The Great Gambler An Image of the Time and Inferno A Game for the People of our Age Despite the success of the novel and the film it was almost a decade before anything more was done with the character Jacques had been working on a sequel to the novel named Mabuse s Colony in which Mabuse has died and a group of his devotees are starting an island colony based on the principles described by Mabuse s manifesto However the novel was unfinished After conversations with Lang and von Harbou Jacques agreed to discontinue the novel and the sequel instead became the 1933 movie The Testament of Dr Mabuse in which the Mabuse of 1922 played again by Rudolf Klein Rogge is an inmate in an insane asylum but has for some time been obsessively writing meticulous plans for crime and terrorism plans that are being performed by a gang of criminals outside the asylum who receive their orders from a person who has identified himself to them only as Dr Mabuse Filmography EditEnglish title Original title Release date Dr Mabuse played by Ref s Dr Mabuse the Gambler Part I The Great Gambler A Picture of the Times Dr Mabuse der Spieler I Der grosse Spieler Ein Bild der Zeit 27 April 1922 Rudolf Klein Rogge 1 Dr Mabuse the Gambler Part II Inferno The Game of the People of our Time Dr Mabuse der Spieler II Inferno Ein Spiel von Menschen unserer Zeit 26 May 1922 Rudolf Klein Rogge 1 The Testament of Dr Mabuse Das Testament des Dr Mabuse April 1933 Rudolf Klein Rogge 2 The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse Die 1000 Augen des Dr Mabuse September 14 1960 Wolfgang Preiss 3 The Return of Doctor Mabuse Im Stahlnetz des Dr Mabuse October 13 1961 Wolfgang Preiss 4 The Invisible Dr Mabuse Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr Mabuse March 30 1962 Wolfgang Preiss 5 The Testament of Dr Mabuse Das Testament des Dr Mabuse remake September 7 1962 Wolfgang Preiss 6 Scotland Yard Hunts Dr Mabuse aka Dr Mabuse vs Scotland Yard Scotland Yard jagt Dr Mabuse September 20 1963 Wolfgang Preiss 7 The Secret of Dr Mabuse aka The Death Ray of Dr Mabuse Die Todesstrahlen des Dr Mabuse September 18 1964 Wolfgang Preiss archive footage Claudio Gora 8 The Vengeance of Dr Mabuse aka La Venganza del Doctor Mabuse Dr M schlagt zu de 1971 72 Jack Taylor 9 10 circular reference Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press de a k a The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse 1984 Delphine SeyrigDr M Docteur M 1990 Alan Bates 11 Doctor Mabuse 2013 Jerry Lacy 12 Doctor Mabuse Etiopomar 2014 Jerry Lacy 13 The Thousand and One Lives of Doctor Mabuse 2020 Jerry Lacy 14 15 Bibliography EditNovels Dr Mabuse Master of Mystery Original title Dr Mabuse der Spieler 1921 English translation by Lilian A Clare published in 1923 Das Testament des Dr Mabuse Written in the early 1930s but not published until 1950 under the title Dr Mabuses letztes Spiel 16 In the late 1980s it was reprinted under its original title Das Testament des Dr Mabuse 16 Mabuses Kolonie Unfinished novel that was written in 1930 and published in 1994 Mabuse also appears in Jacques s 1923 sci fi novel Ingenieur Mars 17 Jacques wrote a novel called Der Chemiker des Dr Mabuse but he ultimately removed all references to Mabuse from it and serialized it in 1934 under the title Chemiker Null 18 Short stories Dr Mabuse auf dem Presseball 1923 References EditNotes a b Dr Mabuse der Spieler I Der grosse Spieler Ein Bild der Zeit Filmportal de Retrieved July 19 2019 Das Testament des Dr Mabuse Filmportal de Retrieved July 19 2019 Die 1000 Augen des Dr Mabuse Filmportal de Retrieved July 19 2019 Im Stahlnetz des Dr Mabuse filmportal de www filmportal de Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr Mabuse Filmportal de Retrieved July 19 2019 Das Testament des Dr Mabuse Filmportal de Retrieved July 19 2019 Scotland Yard jagt Dr Mabuse Filmportal de Retrieved July 19 2019 Die Todesstrahlen des Dr Mabuse Filmportal de Retrieved July 19 2019 Dr M schlagt zu Filmportal de Retrieved July 19 2019 La venganza del doctor Mabuse it wikipedia org Retrieved July 23 2019 Dr Filmportal de Retrieved July 19 2019 Doctor Mabuse 2013 Hollinsworth Productions Retrieved July 18 2020 Doctor Mabuse Etiopomar 2014 Hollinsworth Productions Retrieved July 18 2020 The Thousand and One Lives of Doctor Mabuse 2020 IMDB com Retrieved July 18 2020 THE THOUSAND AND ONE LIVES OF DOCTOR MABUSE 2020 Short Film Archived from the original on 2021 12 21 via www youtube com a b Kalat 2001 p 19 Kalat 2001 p 17 Kalat 2001 p 18 Sources Kalat David 2001 The Strange Case of Dr Mabuse A Study of the Twelve Movies and Five Novels Jefferson North Carolina McFarland amp Company ISBN 0786423374 Further reading Haase Holger The Many Masks of Dr Mabuse Mabuse in the 1960s Kindle 2020 External links Edit Media related to Dr Mabuse at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dr Mabuse amp oldid 1133071045, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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