Artur Balder

Who is Artur Balder?

Artur Balder is a Spanish American filmmaker and writer.

He is best known for his Teutoburg Series of Roman Military fiction set in the territories of the Roman Empire at the boundaries of Germania Magna, covering the second invasion of Germania and the subsequent prolonged campaign undertaken by the Julio-Claudian dynasty. To date there are four books in the series. It is the longest and most extensive fictional work about the Germanic hero Arminius the Cheruscan.

He has also written another series, Chronicles of Widukind, focusing on the Saxon rebel Widukind and Charlemagne, whose first title, The Codex of the Sword, was published in 2010. The second volume, The lords of Earth, was released in 2012 and the third volume The Spear of Destiny was released in May 2013. He is also a filmmaker and is responsible for the investigations about Little Spain, authoring several documentaries that display for first time the history of the Spanish immigration in the city of New York.

His documentary about contemporary art Ciria pronounced thiria was premiered in May 2013 by the MoMA in New York, sponsored by the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica, and by the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin in November 2013.