Hanni Weisse

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Hanni Weisse (born October 16, 1892 in Chemnitz , † December 13, 1967 in Bad Liebenzell ; born Johanna Clara Theresia Weisse ) was a German actress . It was one of the great silent film divas and was able to maintain its star status until the 1920s.

Hanni Weisse on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Life

She received training in the cello and appeared for the first time in 1910 in small roles with choir engagement at the Thalia Theater in Berlin. In 1912, Weisse was a member of the Royal Belvedere in Dresden , with whom she toured all of Germany. The film director Max Mack discovered her and got her a job with the Vitascope production company . She made her debut in Mack's Whims of Fate in 1911 and also starred in his film The Other (1913), which received a lot of attention as the film debut of the famous theater actor Albert Bassermann . The work, written by Paul Lindau based on his play, is considered to be one of the first German films to be recognized by critics as artistic.

Hanni Weisse impressed with the natural way she played and soon became one of the busiest film actresses. She had one of her best roles in 1919 as an alcoholic mother in EA Dupont's Alcohol . In 1921 she played alongside Albert Steinrück in Das Blut . Over the course of the 1920s, her film roles gradually got smaller.

Since the 1930s she intensified her theatrical work and gave guest performances at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm and the Lessing Theater . In 1942, Weisse shot her last film Gone with Destiny and then withdrew from the film business. In total, she starred in around 100 films.

After retiring from the world of film, she and her second husband opened the Herrenhaus hotel-restaurant near Aussig . Expelled from there, she settled in Radebeul near Dresden in 1945 , where she leased the Sängerhöhe mountain inn . In 1948 she went to West Germany and opened a pub in Frankfurt am Main . She was also the owner of the hotel-restaurant Zum Heidelberger , which developed into a meeting place for artists.

Hanni Weisse was married to the screenwriter Bobby E. Lüthge , from whom u. a. the scripts for her films Mater dolorosa (1924), Der Kavalier vom Wedding (1927) and Kaczmarek (1928) came from.

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 315 f.
  • Stefan Lorant : We from film. The life, love and suffering of the movie stars. Theater- und Film-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Berlin 1928 (Reprographischer Reprint. Kolf, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-925865-01-2 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Richter: Singer height; Höhenweg 5. In: Niederlößnitz from yesteryear. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016 ; accessed on June 11, 2017 (with numerous postcards and photos).
personal data
SURNAME Weisse, Hanni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weisse, Johanna Clara Theresia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1967
Place of death Bad Liebenzell