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Prostitution (1919 Film)
''Prostitution'' (German: ''Die Prostitution'') is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt, Reinhold Schünzel and Gussy Holl.Rogowski p.139 It was released in two parts ''Das gelbe Haus'' and ''Die sich verkaufen''. It was one of several enlightenment films made during the era by Oswald. The physician Magnus Hirschfeld was an advisor on the production. The first part premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. Cast Part I * Fritz Beckmann as Klaßen, Agent * Anita Berber as Lola, dessen Tochter * Gussy Holl as Hedwig * Conrad Veidt as Alfred Werner * Rudolf Klein-Rhoden as Hiller, Hausbesitzer * Rita Clermont as Vera, Hillers Tochter * Reinhold Schünzel as Karl Döring * Ferdinand Bonn as Michalsky * Marga Köhler as Madame Riedel * Kissa von Sievers as Die Prostitution * Preben J. Rist as Diener der Gerechtigkeit * Emil Lind as alter Herr * Werner Krauss as Mann * Ernst Gronau * Wilhelm Diegelmann Part II * Conrad V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Oswald
Richard Oswald (5 November 1880 – 11 September 1963) was an Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter, and father of German-American film director Gerd Oswald. Early career Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, began his career as an actor on the Viennese stage. He made his film directorial debut at age 34 with ''The Iron Cross'' (1914) and worked a number of times for Jules Greenbaum. In 1916, Oswald set up his own production company in Germany, writing and directing most of his films himself. His pre-1920 efforts include such literary adaptations as ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1917), '' Peer Gynt'' (1919), the once scandalous ''Different from the Others'' (1919) and ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1919). Oswald directed nearly 100 films. Some critics have suggested that Oswald was more prolific than talented, but such films as his horror film '' Unheimliche Geschichten'' (1932), produced by no less than Gabriel Pascal, would seem to refute thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Clermont
Rita Clermont (1894–1969) was a German film actress of the silent era. Selected filmography * ''The Uncanny House'' (1916) * ''The Lord of Hohenstein'' (1917) * '' Nocturne of Love'' (1919) * '' Prostitution'' (1919) * '' Deceiver of the People'' (1921) * '' Dance of Passions'' (1922) * '' Irene of Gold'' (1923) * ''Maud Rockefeller's Bet ''Maud Rockefeller's Bet'' (german: Maud Rockfellers Wette) is a 1924 German silent comedy film directed by Erich Eriksen and starring Rita Clermont, Karl Elzer and Erich Kaiser-Titz.Grange p. 178 Cast In alphabetical order * Rita Clermont ...'' (1924) References Bibliography * External links * 1894 births 1969 deaths German film actresses German silent film actresses 20th-century German actresses People from Regensburg {{Germany-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Films
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Paul Morgan (actor)
Paul Morgan (October 1, 1886 – December 10, 1938) was a Jewish Austrian actor and Kabarett performer. He died in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938. Selected filmography * '' The Gentleman Without a Residence'' (1915) * ''The Mistress of the World, Part VI'' (1919) * ''Countess Doddy'' (1919) * '' Prostitution'' (1919) * '' Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1919) * ''Diamonds'' (1920) * '' Respectable Women'' (1920) * ''Kurfürstendamm'' (1920) * '' Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1921) * ''Hedda Gabler'' (1925) * ''The Girl with a Patron'' (1925) * '' The Elegant Bunch'' (1925) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * '' Love and Trumpets'' (1925) * '' The Flower Girl of Potsdam Square'' (1925) * ''The Red Mouse'' (1926) * ''Vienna - Berlin'' (1926) * ''When She Starts, Look Out'' (1926) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * '' Circus Romanelli'' (1926) * '' The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' (1926) * ''The Pride of the Company'' (1926) * '' The Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilka Grüning
Ilka Grüning (born Ilka Henriette Grunzweig; 4 September 1876 – 11 November 1964) was an Austrian-Hungarian actress. Born in Vienna in the old Austrian-Hungarian Empire, she was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933. A respected and famous actress of her time in the German-language area, she was forced to play bit parts in Hollywood. Career German career At age 17, Ilka Grüning made her stage debut in '' Miss Julie'' and quickly became a famous stage actress. Grüning's first film, at age 43, was a German silent movie called ''Todesurteil'' in 1919. Next, she starred with Conrad Veidt in ''Peer Gynt''. Later that year, she and Veidt appeared in '' Die sich verkaufen''. She continued making silent movies in Germany into the 1920s. In 1920, she appeared in the film ''Die Bestie im Menschen'' based on the novel ''La Bête humaine'' by Émile Zola. This were two of 11 films she appeared in that y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Von Winterstein
Eduard Clemens Franz Anna Freiherr von Wangenheim (1 August 1871 – 22 July 1961), known as Eduard von Winterstein, was an Austrian-German film actor who appeared in over one hundred fifty German films during the silent and sound eras. He was also a noted theater actor. Biography Von Winterstein was born in Vienna on 1 August 1871 to landowner Hugo von Wangenheim and his second wife, Hungarian-born actress Aloysia "Luise" von Wangenheim-Dub. His predecessors were the Barons of Wangenheim. He took acting lessons from his mother, who had played at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Winterstein came to Gera in 1889 and acted in theaters along with his mother and sister Clementine, where he had "undeservedly forgotten" experiences. He acted in the play ' in 1893. The same year, he played the title role in ''Egmont'' at the opening of a theater in Annaberg on 2 April 1893. "I was re-born in Annaberg and became like a completely different person. In this small town I had really become an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrude Hoffman (actress)
Gertrude W. Hoffmann (born Eliza Gertrude Wesselhoeft; May 17, 1871 – February 13, 1968) was a German-born American character actress who began her Hollywood career as she was entering her later years. Family Hoffmann was born on May 17, 1871, at Heidelberg ( German Empire), the daughter of Walter and Mary Sara Silver (née Fraser) Wesselhoeft. Her father was a German-born doctor who at the time of her birth had left his medical practice in Halifax, Nova Scotia, behind to volunteer his services after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. He returned to North America in early 1873 and opened a general practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Gertrude was raised along with her six siblings. Though German by birth, Dr. Wesselhoeft was raised in Cambridge where a number of his relatives had established themselves in the medical community there. He received his medical degree from Harvard University in 1859 and upon graduation began his practice in Halifax. In time he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Wilhelm Diegelmann (28 September 1861 – 1 March 1934) was a German actor. Career Diegelmann's first stage appearance was in 1878 in the chorus for the Frankfurt Opera. In 1881 he debuted at the Frankfurt City Theater, playing King Lear, William Tell, and other title characters. Sometime around 1900, Diegelmann relocated to Berlin. Here, he appeared at a variety of theaters, including the Deutsches Theater, the Großes Schauspielhaus, and the Deutsches Künstlertheater. Diegelmann was introduced to film in 1913 by Max Reinhardt. he became a prolific actor of supporting roles, often as a father figure. He performed in the well-known film '' Der Blaue Engel'' (The Blue Angel), where he played a ship captain who flirts with the lead actress (Marlene Dietrich). The final film he starred in was the Theodor Storm adaptation of ''Der Schimmelreiter'' (The Rider on the White Horse). He continued to make stage appearances after this, with his last role being in ''Rembrandt vor Gericht ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Gronau
Ernst Gronau (21 August 1887 – 10 August 1938) was a German stage, writer and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Prostitution'' (1919) * '' Genuine'' (1920) * ''Roswolsky's Mistress'' (1921) * ''The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * ''Miss Julie'' (1922) * '' The Stream'' (1922) * ''The Curse of Silence'' (1922) * ''The Game with Women'' (1922) * ''Man by the Wayside'' (1923) * ''And Yet Luck Came'' (1923) * '' Liebesbriefe der Baronin von S...'' (1924) * ''Wood Love'' (1925) * '' His Late Excellency'' (1927) * ''Prinz Louis Ferdinand'' (1927) * ''Father and Son'' (1930) * ''I for You, You for Me ''I for You, You for Me'' (German: ''Ich für dich, du für mich'') is a 1934 German drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Ruth Eweler, Karl Dannemann and Carl de Vogt. It was made as a propaganda film in support of the Nazi regime's ...'' (1934) Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Krauss
Werner Johannes Krauss (''Krauß'' in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film ''Jud Süß'' and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure. Early life Krauss was born at the parsonage of Gestungshausen bei Sonnefeld in Upper Franconia, where his grandfather was a Protestant pastor. He spent his childhood in Breslau and from 1901 attended the teacher's college at Kreuzburg. After it became known that he worked as an extra at the Breslau Lobe-Theater, he was suspended from classes and decided to join a travelling theatre company. Acting career In 1903 he debuted at the Guben municipal theatre. Although never trained as an actor, he continued to play in Magdeburg, in Bromberg at the Theater Aachen, in Nuremberg and in Munich. By the agency of Alexander Moissi, in 1913 he met the theatre director Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Lind
Emil Lind (1872–1948) was an Austrian actor. Selected filmography * '' The Story of Dida Ibsen'' (1918) * '' Die Arche'' (1919) * '' Prostitution'' (1919) * '' Humanity Unleashed'' (1920) * '' The Infernal Power'' (1922) * '' I.N.R.I.'' (1923) * '' Superfluous People'' (1926) * ''Mata Hari'' (1927) * ''The Weavers The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. Founded in 1948, the group sang traditional folk songs fr ...'' (1927) * '' Bigamie'' (1927) Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. External links * 1872 births 1948 deaths Austrian male film actors Austrian male stage actors Austrian male silent film actors Male actors from Vienna 20th-century Austrian male actors {{Austria-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preben J
Preben is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Preben von Ahnen (1606–1675), German-born civil servant and landowner in Norway *Preben Arentoft (born 1942), Danish former football player *Preben Fjære Brynemo (born 1977), Norwegian Nordic combined skier * Preben Christiansen (1913–1979), Danish fencer *Preben Eriksen (born 1958), former speedway rider * Preben Fabricius (1931–1984), Danish furniture designer, worked with Jørgen Kastholm * Preben Møller Hansen (1929–2008), Danish writer, cook, politician, and trade unionist * Preben Harris (born 1935), Danish film and stage actor *Preben Van Hecke (born 1982), Belgian professional road bicycle racer * Preben Hertoft (born 1928), Danish psychiatrist, professor in medical sexology, senior doctorate in medicine *Preben Isaksson (1943–2008), Danish cyclist * Preben Jensen (born 1944), Danish sprint canoeist * Preben Kaas (1930–1981), Danish comedian, actor, script writer and film director *Preben Krab (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
