This song was a song written about the character dr mabuse
He first appeared in the 1921 novel Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ("Dr. Mabuse The Gambler") by Norbert Jacques. The novel benefitted from unprecedented publicity and quickly became a best-seller. 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, der Spieler (1922), with a playing time of more than four hours, was released in two sections: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, an Image of the Times and Inferno, People of the Times.
After the great successes of the novel and the movie, 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 Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, in which the Mabuse of 1920 (still played 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.
Dr. Mabuse story appeared in Bold Venture Press pulp magazine AWESOME Tales in [2016] wherein in 1939 an asylum, imprisoned Dr. Mabuse uses his powers to control Hitler. Inspector Lohmann, now a reluctant Gestapo investigator, gets wind of this and attempts to prevent chaos.
@Jezza_Junkie the actual lyrics themselves seem to tell a more personal story to me, and that Dr Mabuse is used as an analogy more so than the meaning of the song.
@Jezza_Junkie the actual lyrics themselves seem to tell a more personal story to me, and that Dr Mabuse is used as an analogy more so than the meaning of the song.
This song was a song written about the character dr mabuse He first appeared in the 1921 novel Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ("Dr. Mabuse The Gambler") by Norbert Jacques. The novel benefitted from unprecedented publicity and quickly became a best-seller. 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, der Spieler (1922), with a playing time of more than four hours, was released in two sections: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, an Image of the Times and Inferno, People of the Times.
After the great successes of the novel and the movie, 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 Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, in which the Mabuse of 1920 (still played 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.
Dr. Mabuse story appeared in Bold Venture Press pulp magazine AWESOME Tales in [2016] wherein in 1939 an asylum, imprisoned Dr. Mabuse uses his powers to control Hitler. Inspector Lohmann, now a reluctant Gestapo investigator, gets wind of this and attempts to prevent chaos.
@Jezza_Junkie the actual lyrics themselves seem to tell a more personal story to me, and that Dr Mabuse is used as an analogy more so than the meaning of the song.
@Jezza_Junkie the actual lyrics themselves seem to tell a more personal story to me, and that Dr Mabuse is used as an analogy more so than the meaning of the song.
Maybe not though??
Maybe not though??