Der blaue Engel (1930)






An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.


Vintage magazines

Photoplay , February 1931
Photoplay , March 1936

Film programs

Progress Filmillustrierte/Filmprogramm nr. 62/53

Books on Der blaue Engel

Barbara Kosta
Willing seduction, The blue angel, Marlene Dietrich, and mass culture
New York, 2009

S. S. Prawer
The Blue Angel, Der blaue Engel
London, 2002


Der blaue Engel
Berlin, 1992

Books with substantial mentioning of Der blaue Engel

Hans Helmut Prinzler
Licht und Schatten, Die grossen Stumm- und Tonfilme der Weimarer Republik
München; Berlin, 2012

Laurence Kardish
Weimar cinema, 1919-1933, Daydreams and nightmares
New York, NY, 2010

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Dawn B. Sova
Forbidden Films, Censorship Histories of 125 Motion Pictures
New York NY, 2001

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.)
Icons of film, The 20th century
Munich; New York, 2000

Sybil DelGaudio
Dressing the Part, Sternberg, Dietrich, and Costume
London and Toronto, 1993

Günther Dahlke
Deutsche Spielfilme von dem Anfängen bis 1933, Ein Filmführer
Berlin, 1988

Karlheinz Wendtland
Geliebter Kintopp, Sämtliche deutsche Spielfilme von 1929-1945 mit zahlreichen Künstlerbiographien - Jahrgang 1929 und 1930
Berlin, [1987]

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Survey of Cinema, Foreign Language Films. Volume 1 A-CED
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1985

Christa Bandmann / Joe Hembus
Klassiker des Deutschen Tonfilms, 1930-1960
München, 1980

Homer Dickens
The Films of Marlene Dietrich
New York, 1968

Books with an entry on Der blaue Engel

Robert C. Reimer, Carol J. Reimer
Historical Dictionary of German Cinema
Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, Plymouth, UK, 2008

Alfred Bauer
Deutscher Spielfilm Almanach, 1929-1950
Berlin, 1950

Articles on Der blaue Engel

Gertrud Koch, Between two worlds, von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930), in: Eric Rentschler, German Film & Literature, New York & London, 1986

Jochen Meyer-Wendt, Die Fassade der Moral, Josef von Sternbergs "Der Blaue Engel", in: Hans-Michael Bock und Michael Töteberg (Hg.), Das Ufa-Buch, Frankfurt am Main, 1992

Articles with substantial mentioning of Der blaue Engel

David Thompson, Von Sternberg - Six Chapters in Search of an Author, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 1 (January), 2010 pp. 38-41