Conrad Veidt-related reading masterpost
So now that I've managed to collect a handful of books of Conrad Veidt interest, I thought I'd share them here for those of you who can't get enough of Connies. I'm happy to include new material, so let me know if you find anything that's got Connie relevance, have made scans/translations yourself, et cetera. There's a huge pile of digitised movie magazines out there, so I'm not going to link to all of those, but I'll just post download/online links to the more relevant ones here. I will keep updating the post as needs be/when I have the time.
Enjoy!
***
General resources:
Archive.org, especially the Open Library. You can now search inside all the books they've digitised, meaning that you'll be able to find mentions of the thing you're looking for even in the most unexpected of places. The Open Library really, really, *really* is the modern Library of Alexandria, and I can't recommend it highly enough. You will find tons of old film magazines and books with Connies therein, and some of the books in my own collection are downloaded from there. A treasure trove for the classic movie fan.
*********
Books about, or featuring a considerable amount of Connie:
Conrad Veidt on Screen: A comprehensive illustrated filmography by John T. Soister (213 MB PDF)
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/8lc909
Conrad Veidt: Ein Buch vom Wesen und Werden Eines Künstlers by Paul Ickes (114 MB PDF)
https://snowgrouse.aikamuna.org/Veidt/conradveidtickes.pdf
A short, early (1927) biography, which is mostly Ickes's own ranting (and "ranting" isn't an exaggeration). But it has some interesting bits from his interviews with Connie, before Ickes seems to have stormed off in a rage at being unable to shoehorn the very humanist and liberal Connie into his own, very right-wing politics. I scanned the book myself and OCRed it, so that you can actually copypaste pages of the text straight from the PDF (or this handy .txt version of the book) into Google Translate if your German isn't that great. It does a pretty good job with German to English these days, actually.
*********
Novels and plays on which Connie films were based:
*********
Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes (28 MB PDF)
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/oberd3
***
Bella Donna by Robert Hichens (20 MB PDF)
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/sthtjx
Also available in several versions and formats on Archive.org. Here's the same one, readable in your browser:
https://archive.org/details/belladonnanovel00hichrich
***
Die Brüder Schellenberg by Bernhard Kellermann (TXT, HTML, epub)
Up on Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67112
And on Archive.org (including PDF):
https://archive.org/details/bernhard-kellerman.-die-bruder-schellenberg.-fischer-berlin-1925
***
Escape by Ethel Vance. 63 MB PDF
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/pes3e5
***
Count Kostia by Victor Cherbuliez
PDF: https://snowgrouse.aikamuna.org/Books/countkostia00cherrich.pdf (ripped from Archive.org's copy here). 15 Mb.
Plain txt: https://snowgrouse.aikamuna.org/Books/kostia.txt (ripped from a compilation of French novels on Gutenberg.org)
Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello
A collection of three Pirandello plays, including Henry IV, the source for Die Flucht in die Nacht. 13 mb PDF, here.
***
Jew Süss (released under the title "Power") by Lion Feuchtwanger, in English. 80 MB PDF
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/yzpxp5
***
Journey's End (the play that was the basis for Die Andere Seite) by R.C. Sherriff:
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/6fwcxw
***
The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo:
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/rpj0gn
***
The Passing of The Third Floor Back by Jerome K. Jerome:
Play:
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/ywr77x
Novelisation (a short story of 40 or so pages, in a collection of other short stories by the author):
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/6iu5h9
***
The Wandering Jew, original play by E. Temple Thurston (note that there are several versions of this, many of which have been cut for censorship reasons because they contained so much sensuality and what could potentially be seen as blasphemy. This is the most complete/least censored version I could find).
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/1341od
*********
Film novelisations:
*********
The Beloved Rogue (Spanish novelisation):
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/wxtjkg
Le Comte Kostia (in Spanish; poor scan, but as this is a lost film, the PDF is valuable so we'll know what actually happened in the film):
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/14mx6w
The Man Who Laughs (Spanish novelisation):
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/66g06t
Enjoy!
***
General resources:
Archive.org, especially the Open Library. You can now search inside all the books they've digitised, meaning that you'll be able to find mentions of the thing you're looking for even in the most unexpected of places. The Open Library really, really, *really* is the modern Library of Alexandria, and I can't recommend it highly enough. You will find tons of old film magazines and books with Connies therein, and some of the books in my own collection are downloaded from there. A treasure trove for the classic movie fan.
*********
Books about, or featuring a considerable amount of Connie:
Conrad Veidt on Screen: A comprehensive illustrated filmography by John T. Soister (213 MB PDF)
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/8lc909
Conrad Veidt: Ein Buch vom Wesen und Werden Eines Künstlers by Paul Ickes (114 MB PDF)
https://snowgrouse.aikamuna.org/Veidt/conradveidtickes.pdf
A short, early (1927) biography, which is mostly Ickes's own ranting (and "ranting" isn't an exaggeration). But it has some interesting bits from his interviews with Connie, before Ickes seems to have stormed off in a rage at being unable to shoehorn the very humanist and liberal Connie into his own, very right-wing politics. I scanned the book myself and OCRed it, so that you can actually copypaste pages of the text straight from the PDF (or this handy .txt version of the book) into Google Translate if your German isn't that great. It does a pretty good job with German to English these days, actually.
*********
Novels and plays on which Connie films were based:
*********
Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes (28 MB PDF)
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/oberd3
***
Bella Donna by Robert Hichens (20 MB PDF)
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/sthtjx
Also available in several versions and formats on Archive.org. Here's the same one, readable in your browser:
https://archive.org/details/belladonnanovel00hichrich
***
Die Brüder Schellenberg by Bernhard Kellermann (TXT, HTML, epub)
Up on Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67112
And on Archive.org (including PDF):
https://archive.org/details/bernhard-kellerman.-die-bruder-schellenberg.-fischer-berlin-1925
***
Escape by Ethel Vance. 63 MB PDF
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/pes3e5
***
Count Kostia by Victor Cherbuliez
PDF: https://snowgrouse.aikamuna.org/Books/countkostia00cherrich.pdf (ripped from Archive.org's copy here). 15 Mb.
Plain txt: https://snowgrouse.aikamuna.org/Books/kostia.txt (ripped from a compilation of French novels on Gutenberg.org)
Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello
A collection of three Pirandello plays, including Henry IV, the source for Die Flucht in die Nacht. 13 mb PDF, here.
***
Jew Süss (released under the title "Power") by Lion Feuchtwanger, in English. 80 MB PDF
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/yzpxp5
***
Journey's End (the play that was the basis for Die Andere Seite) by R.C. Sherriff:
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/6fwcxw
***
The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo:
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/rpj0gn
***
The Passing of The Third Floor Back by Jerome K. Jerome:
Play:
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/ywr77x
Novelisation (a short story of 40 or so pages, in a collection of other short stories by the author):
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/6iu5h9
***
The Wandering Jew, original play by E. Temple Thurston (note that there are several versions of this, many of which have been cut for censorship reasons because they contained so much sensuality and what could potentially be seen as blasphemy. This is the most complete/least censored version I could find).
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/1341od
*********
Film novelisations:
*********
The Beloved Rogue (Spanish novelisation):
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/wxtjkg
Le Comte Kostia (in Spanish; poor scan, but as this is a lost film, the PDF is valuable so we'll know what actually happened in the film):
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/14mx6w
The Man Who Laughs (Spanish novelisation):
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/66g06t