Robert Baberske

Robert Baberske (1 May 1900 – 27 March 1958) was a German cinematographer. Although he worked briefly in Britain, Baberske spent most of his career in the German film industry. Baberske began as an assistant to Karl Freund. He became a prominent film technician during the silent era, and later during the Nazi years. Following the Second World War, he lived and worked in East Germany on a number of propaganda films for the state-controlled DEFA studio.

Selected filmography

 * Madame Wants No Children (1926)
 * Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927)
 * Doña Juana (1927)
 * Out of the Mist (1927)
 * A Knight in London (1929)
 * Napoleon at St. Helena (1929)
 * Bookkeeper Kremke (1930)
 * Dolly Gets Ahead (1930)
 * Calais-Dover (1931)
 * Ronny (1931)
 * No More Love (1931)
 * The Street Song (1931)
 * Thea Roland (1932)
 * The Beautiful Adventure (1932)
 * You Don't Forget Such a Girl (1932)
 * The Song of Night (1932)
 * Things Are Getting Better Already (1932)
 * The Burning Secret (1933)
 * One Night's Song (1933)
 * Spies at Work (1933)
 * Little Girl, Great Fortune  (1933)
 * The Sun Rises (1934)
 * The Higher Command (1935)
 * The Foolish Virgin (1935)
 * One Too Many on Board (1935)
 * Make Me Happy (1935)
 * The Girl Irene (1936)
 * Carousel (1937)
 * The Chief Witness (1937)
 * A Night in May (1938)
 * The Girl of Last Night (1938)
 * Her First Experience (1939)
 * How Do We Tell Our Children? (1940)
 * Between Hamburg and Haiti (1940)
 * The Rothschilds (1940)
 * Attack on Baku (1942)
 * Between Heaven and Earth (1942)
 * Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1943)
 * The Buchholz Family (1944)
 * Marriage of Affection (1944)
 * King of Hearts (1947)
 * The Cuckoos (1949)
 * How Do We Tell Our Children? (1949)
 * Bürgermeister Anna (1950)
 * The Axe of Wandsbek (1951)
 * Das tapfere Schneiderlein (1956)