The little one from the variety show

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Movie
Original title The little one from the variety show
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1926
length 6 acts, 2290 m, at 22 fps 91 minutes
Rod
Director Hanns Schwarz
script Wilhelm Thiele
production Paul Davidson
camera Curt Courant
occupation

Die Kleine vom Varieté is the title of a silent film comedy that Hanns Schwarz realized in 1926 for producer Paul Davidson for Davidson-Film AG (Berlin) based on a script that Wilhelm Thiele had written based on a play by Alfred Möller . Universum Film AG ( UFA ) took over the distribution . Ossi Oswalda and the Danish-Austrian operetta tenor Max Hansen played the leading roles .

action

The young dentist Peter Kretschmar is financially in a tight spot, because hardly a patient gets lost in his newly opened practice. His uncle Jeremias regularly supports him with a change, but he has one condition: For business reasons, Peter should marry Josette Rübe, the daughter of Jeremias' late partner. Otherwise, he will stop financial support for him. Little does his uncle suspect that Peter has long been married: to Ellen, who appears as a vaudeville artist under the name Rositta. Uncle Jeremias and Josette surprisingly announce their visit to Berlin to initiate the wedding. How can Peter keep his marriage to Ellen a secret without endangering her at the same time? How to keep Josette at a distance and at the same time keep her uncle happy? (According to: filmportal.de/Murnau-Stiftung)

background

The film structures were created by Hans Jacoby . Curt Courant was in front of the camera . The film was submitted to the Reichsfilmzensur on August 16, 1926 for examination and was allowed to pass under the number B 13435. It premiered on September 3, 1926 in Berlin and also ran in Portugal and Finland.

reception

The little one from the Varieté was thoroughly discussed benevolently in the specialist and daily press in 1926. B. in the photo stage and in the daily review .

“Fast pace, breathtaking tension and diaphragmatic situations. Knives flash, revolvers crack, it's raining kisses and hailing slaps in the face, ”summarized the Daily Rundschau of September 5, 1926. It went on to say:“ Amusing and diverse are the people who, through their wit and humor, don't keep the audience in constant tension let the laughter come out. "

“A turbulent comedy with the great Ossi Oswalda, who almost bursts with energy in the role of a variety star. She loves an unsuccessful dentist who, at the request of his rich uncle, is supposed to marry a girl from the provinces. The resulting confusion offers Ossi the opportunity for her famous outbursts of temperament, for games of hide and seek in men's clothing, comedy and anarchy. Besides Ossi, Georg Alexander and Max Hansen shine. "

Although Ossi Oswalda (1897–1947) was still very productive and popular with the public, she is still best known as the female star of the Lubitsch comedies from 1916–1919. At that time it was considered the German edition of Mary Pickford . In contrast, her later silent films have been almost completely forgotten. She took up the vaudeville scene again in her only two sound films: in Georg Jacoby's Der chaste Josef (1930) she was seen as a knife thrower and in Alfred Zeisler's Der Stern von Valencia (1934) she embodied the vaudeville dancer Rita.

When the Flora Theater on the shoulder blade was re-established as a cinema variety show in Hamburg , it opened on September 24, 1926 with Die Kleine vom Varieté, the matching film.

Both the director Hanns (originally Ignaz) Schwarz and the screenwriter Wilhelm Thiele (originally Isersohn) and the actor Max Hansen had to leave Germany in 1933 “for racial reasons”. The producer Paul Davidson had already committed suicide in 1927 - Die Kleine vom Varieté was his last production.

Re-performances

The little one from Varieté was screened at the International Queer Film Festival in the Metropolis Kino in Hamburg on Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 10.30 a.m. with the support of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation Wiesbaden. For the musical illustration live on the piano, Dr. Werner Loll.

The Zeughaus -Kino Berlin showed Die Kleine vom Varieté in its series Komödiantinnen of the silent film era on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 8 p.m. with piano accompaniment by Peter Gotthardt.

The municipal FilmhausKino in Nuremberg showed “Die Kleine vom Varieté” on Sunday, June 24th, 2018 at 8:00 pm. D. Meyer accompanied the piano.

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection . Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.
  • Jan Distelmeyer: Joking aside, off the film: Jewish humor and suppressive laughter in comedy films up to 1945 . Edition Text + Critique, 2006, ISBN 3-88377-803-6 , pp. 73, 81, 86.
  • Gerhard Lampecht: German silent films. Volume VIII, p. 791.
  • Irene Stratenwerth, Hermann Simon: Pioneers in Celluloid. Jews in the early film world . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89487-471-6 , pp. 11f., 16f., 22, 38, 49ff., 70f., 147, 155, 164, 176 261ff., 266ff., 272 [to Paul Davidson].
  • Michael Töteberg, Volker Reissmann: Have a nice few hours: the Hamburg cinema book. Edition Temmen Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-879-0 .
  • Rudolf Ulrich: Austrians in Hollywood. 2nd, revised edition. Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, 2004, ISBN 3-901932-29-1 , p. 522 [on Wilhelm Thiele-Isersohn].

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Birett, sources, at kinematographie.de
  2. ↑ cf. IMDb / release info
  3. ↑ cf. Birett p. 113 to 26.235
  4. ↑ cit. according to the program “Komödiantinnen der Silentfilmzeit” from the Zeughaus-Kinos at dhm.de.
  5. ↑ so at murnau-stiftung.de
  6. ↑ so at steffi-line.de
  7. ↑ "In 1926 a modern cinema variety was set up in the rear of the building", cf. square7.ch
  8. ↑ cf. Töteberg-Reissmann p. 49.
  9. ↑ cf. Stratenwerth-Simon pp. 49–56, here p. 54: "Officially it is reported that Davidson has succumbed to a heart attack, but his suicide is an open secret, at least in the industry".
  10. ↑ cf. additional screenings at CineFest Hamburg and archiv.lsf-hamburg.de
  11. ↑ cf. dhm.de
  12. ↑ cf. kunstkulturquartier.de  ; Program leaflet as (PDF)