Wanda Treumann | |
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| Born | Wanda Reich 17 November 1883 [1] |
| Died | 29 April 1963 (aged 79) [2] Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation | Actress, Producer |
| Years active | 1910-1922 (film) |
Wanda Treumann (born Wanda Reich; 17 November 1883 – 29 April 1963) was a German theatre and film actress and film producer of the silent era. [3] A leading lady in a number of productions during the Imperial era and the Weimar Republic, she retired from the screen in 1922. Her later life remains obscure.
Wanda Hawley was an American actress during the silent film era. She entered the theatrical profession with an amateur group in Seattle, and later toured the United States and Canada as a singer. She initially began in films acting with the likes of William Farnum, William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Douglas Fairbanks, and others. She co-starred with Rudolph Valentino in the 1922 The Young Rajah, and rose to stardom in a number of Cecil B. DeMille's and director Sam Wood's films.
Lya Mara was a Polish actress. She was one of the biggest stars of the German silent cinema.
Thomas Elsaesser was a German film historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He was also the writer and director of The Sun Island, a documentary essay film about his grandfather, the architect Martin Elsaesser. He was married to scholar Silvia Vega-Llona.
Ernst Reicher was a German-Jewish actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director of the silent era.
Paul Davidson was a German film producer.
Max Mack (1884–1973) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director during the silent era. He is particularly known for his 1913 film The Other. He directed, and co-starred in, an early film adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1914, called Ein Seltsamer Fall, written by Richard Oswald. During the 1910s, he directed nearly a hundred films in a variety of different genres.
Hedda Vernon was a German actress, screenwriter, and film producer. She was a prominent star of the early Weimar Republic, and had her own film production company.
Willy Zeyn (1876-1946) was a German film director and screenwriter of the silent era. His son Willy Zeyn became a film editor and producer.
Sabine Impekoven was a German film actress of the silent era. She was married to the actor Leo Peukert and appeared alongside him in several films. She was the sister of Toni Impekoven.
The Women's War is a 1928 German silent film directed by Franz Seitz and starring Fritz Kampers, Liane Haid and Lotte Lorring. It is based upon the play by Ludwig Anzengruber.
Malaria is a 1919 German silent film directed by Rochus Gliese and starring Lyda Salmonova, Emil Kühne, and Ewald Bach.
The Tempelhof Studios are a film studio located in Tempelhof in the German capital of Berlin. They were founded in 1912, during the silent era, by German film pioneer Alfred Duskes, who built a glass-roofed studio on the site with financial backing from the French company Pathé. The producer Paul Davidson's PAGU then took control and constructed a grander structure. The First World War propaganda drama The Yellow Passport, the historical comedy Madame DuBarry and the expressionist 1920 silent film The Golem were made there by PAGU.
Alfred Duskes (1881-1918) was a German film producer and director. He was one of the German pioneers of the silent era, setting up his first production company in 1905. In 1912 he founded the original Tempelhof Studios, with financial backing from the French company Pathé.
The Blue Lantern is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten and Ferdinand von Alten.
The Union-Theater was a large cinema located on the Alexanderplatz in the German capital Berlin. Opened in 1909 it was the first of a chain of cinemas built by the German film magnate Paul Davidson. Equipped with an orchestra to accompany the action on screen, it provided a model for numerous subsequent film palaces across the German Empire. In 1913 Davidson had it remodelled and expanded its capacity to 1,200 seats, at that time the largest in the country. It hosted a number of premieres of new films, both German and foreign imports.
The Secret of Wera Baranska is a 1919 German silent film directed by Eugen Burg, Franz Porten and Rosa Porten. It stars Wanda Treumann, Paul Hartmann, and Reinhold Schünzel.
The Secret of the Scaffold is a 1919 German silent historical drama film directed by Eugen Burg.
A Night in Paradise is a 1919 German silent film directed by Eugen Burg and starring Wanda Treumann and Reinhold Schünzel.
William Kahn (1882–1959) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director of the silent era.
Eiko Film was a German film production company of the silent era. It was established in 1912 by the producer Franz Vogel and swiftly became one of Germany's more important companies. Having initially produced its films at the Rex Film studios in Berlin, the company moved to construct the Marienfelde Studios in the suburb of that name. A glasshouse studio, it was part of Germany's growing film infastructure. During the First World War era, when foreign imports were largely excluded from the German market, the company enjoyed success with its productions. In 1922 the company and its Marienfelde Studios were acquired by Terra Film, although the name Eiko was used by productions released by the rival National Film until later in the decade.
Thomas Elsaesser & Michael Wedel. A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades. Amsterdam University Press, 1996.
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