Karl Valentin

Karl Valentin (nama lahir Valentin Ludwig Fey, ) adalah seorang pelawak, pementas kabaret, badut, pengarang dan produser film asal Bayern. Ia memiliki pengaruh signifikan pada budaya Jerman Weimar.  Valentin membintangi banyak film bisu pada 1920an, dan terkadang dijuluki "Charlie Chaplin dari Jerman". Karyanya memiliki pengaruh esensial pada artis-artis seperti Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Loriot dan Helge Schneider.

Karya yang dikutip
 Benjamin, Walter. 1983. Understanding Brecht. Trans. Anna Bostock. London and New York: Verso. .
 Brecht, Bertolt. 1965. The Messingkauf Dialogues. Trans. John Willett. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry, Prose Ser. London: Methuen, 1985. .
 Calandra, Denis. 2003. "Karl Valentin and Bertolt Brecht." In Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook. Ed. Joel Schechter. Worlds of Performance Ser. London and New York: Routledge. p. 189-201. .
 Horwitz, Kurt "Karl Valentin in einer anderen Zeit," Stürzflüge im Zuschauerraum (Munich, Piper Verlag, 1970), pp. 16–17
 McDowell, W. Stuart. 1977. "A Brecht-Valentin Production: Mysteries of a Barbershop", in Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Winter, 1977), pp. 2–14.
 McDowell, W. Stuart. 2000. “Acting Brecht: The Munich Years,"  in The Brecht Sourcebook, Carol Martin, Henry Bial, editors (Routledge, 2000) p. 71 - 83.
 Schechter, Joel. 1994. "Brecht's Clowns: Man is Man and After". In Thomson and Sacks (1994, 68-78).
 Thomson, Peter and Glendyr Sacks, eds. 1994. The Cambridge Companion to Brecht. Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .
 Willett, John. 1967. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects. Third rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1977. .
 Willett, John and Ralph Manheim. 1970. Introduction. In Collected Plays: One by Bertolt Brecht. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry and Prose Ser. London: Methuen. . p.vii-xvii.

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 Karl Valentin Museum in Isartor, Munich
 Official Karl Valentin Page (german)
 You'll Laugh, You'll Cry
 
 Film Comedy in the Weimar Republic at www.filmportal.de

Pemeran film laki-laki Jerman