Lisa Weise (16 December 1880 as Louise Ottilie Georgine Anna Weise – 6 December 1951) was a German actress and singer.
Life and career
Born in
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
the daughter of the oboist and Grand Ducal chamber virtuoso Ernst Weise and his wife Ottilie, ''née'' Zimmermann, she began her stage career in 1903 in
Metz
Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand E ...
and then played at various Berlin theatres between 1904 and 1910. In 1910 she moved to the in Vienna for one season before returning to Berlin, where she worked at the Neues Operettentheater am Schiffbauerdamm until 1917.
Parallel to her stage work, Weise regularly appeared in front of the camera as a leading actress from 1915 onwards, having already made an appearance in the
sound picture
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...
''The Count of Luxembourg'' in 1910.
She usually acted alongside
Karl Beckersachs
Karl Beckersachs (1886–1951) was a German stage and film actor.Goble p.481 He is sometimes credited as Carl Beckersachs.
Selected filmography
* ''His Majesty the Hypochondriac'' (1918)
* ''Midnight'' (1918)
* '' In the Castle by the Lake'' (191 ...
under the direction of
Friedrich Zelnik
Frederic Zelnik (born Friedrich Zelnik, 17 May 1885 – 29 November 1950) was an Austrian producer, director, and actor. He was one of the most important producers-directors of the German silent cinema. Zelnik achieved success through period oper ...
.
Weise was married from 1907 to 1919 to factory owner Felix Stern, who was the screenwriter responsible for
Carl Wilhelm
Carl Wilhelm (born 1872 in Vienna; died in London 1936), was a prolific German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity.
L ...
's 1915 feature film ''Carl and Carla''.
Weise died in Weimar at the age of 70.
Filmography
* 1910: ''Der Graf von Luxemburg''
* 1915: ''Carl und Carla''
* 1916: ''Fräulein Wildfang''
* 1917: ''
Klein Doortje''
* 1917: ''
Edelweiß''
* 1917: ''Ein Zirkusmädel''
* 1917: ''
His Majesty the Hypochondriac
''His Majesty the Hypochondriac'' (german: Durchlaucht Hypochonder) is a 1918 German silent comedy film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lisa Weise, Karl Beckersachs, and Grete Diercks.
Cast
* Lisa Weise as Serene Hypochondriac
*Karl ...
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* 1917: ''
Das große Los''
* 1917: ''Gänseliesel''
* 1918: ''
Der Liftjunge''
* 1918:'' Amalie – 45 Mark''
Radio plays
* 1926: Kurt Kraatz, Georg Okonkowski: Polish Economy. Posse with song in 3 acts. Directed by
Alfred Braun
Alfred Braun (13 May 1888 – 3 January 1978) was a German screenwriter, actor and film director.
Filmography Actor
* ''Das Leid der Liebe'' (1916)
* ''Der Sohn der Magd'' (1919)
* '' The Gambler'' (1920) - Stöckel
* '' Rosenmontag'' (1924)
* ...
(Sendespiel (radio play adaptation) – , Sendespielbühne – Abteilung: Schauspiel)
[ Role: Erika, daughter of the city councillor Adalbert Mangelsdorff. First broadcast: 3 November 1926, cf]
DRA
Radio Play Database. A review appeared under the title "Die Situationskomik in Schwank und Posse – Zum Sende-Spiel "Polnische Wirtschaft"" in: Die Funkstunde. Journal of the Berlin Broadcasting Station. Volume 3. Fascicule 44. 31 October 1926.
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References
External links
*
Lisa Weise
on Filmportal
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German silent film actresses
20th-century German actresses
German film actresses
German stage actresses
Audiobook narrators
German women singers
1880 births
1951 deaths
Actors from Weimar