Hanna Henning

Hanna Henning , as Johanna Julie Adelheid von Koblinski (born August 16, 1884 in Cannstatt , † January 9, 1925 in Berlin ) was a German film director.

Life

The daughter of an insurance company was engaged as a singer in Dessau in 1907/08 . Hanna Henning made her directorial debut in 1911 in a production of the Berlin- based Deutsche Bioscop GmbH. With the two actors of this "sound image" - Ally Kay and "Bubi" Josef Roemer - she worked again and again in the following years, often at Bubi-Film Badner & Co., whose productions she directed and wrote scripts until 1917 . In 1915 she founded her own company (Hanna Henning-Film; 1917/18 Bubi-Film Henning & Co). Her first longer film was the three-act melodrama Im Banne des Schweigens (1916) with May Henkeland Josef Roemer. Hanna Henning received the Cross of Merit for War Aid for her filmic appeal for donations Mother (1917) .

From 1918 on she only worked occasionally as a producer; Hanna Henning directed and wrote the scripts for other companies all the more often. In 1919 she made her first major feature film at Segall-Film in Berlin, the triangular drama The Seventeen Years Old , with Hanni Weisse and Kurt Vespermann in the leading roles. The big light followed in 1919/20 (with Emil Jannings ), in 1921 The Fear of the Woman (with Otto Fee ) and Am rote Kliff (with Fritz Kortner ). At the same time, she also started making documentaries. Hanna Henning died of pneumonia.

Hanna von Koblinski had been using the name Henning since an early marriage with the mill owner Hans Henning, who divorced after a short time.

Filmography

• 1911: Because I Love You - Director
• 1915: Not understood. A child's tragedy - direction, screenplay
• 1915: His Guardian Angel - director, producer
• 1915: Unkels Erbe - director, producer
• 1916: Millionaire Bubi - director
• 1916: Meissner Porzellan - director
• 1916: Under the spell of silence - director, screenplay
• 1916: One for three - director, producer, screenplay
• 1916: Die Zaubergeige - direction, screenplay
• 1916: Bubi has to earn money - director, producer
• 1916: Bubi no longer takes part - director
• 1916: Bubi is jealous - director, screenplay
• 1916: Bubi as a marriage broker - director
• 1917: How Bubi became a detective - director, screenplay
• 1917: Our Krümelchen - director, producer
• 1917: Spitzenchristel - director, producer
• 1917: She knows what she wants - directing
• 1917: Mother - director, screenplay
• 1917: Bubi does everything for her - director, producer
• 1917: Fräulein Schwindelmeier - direction, screenplay
• 1917: Bubi and the Wonder Pig - director, producer
• 1917: She was also a youth - director
• 1917/1918: Krümelchen knows what to do - director
• 1918: Ally Schippt - director, producer
• 1918: When the red heather blooms - director
• 1918: Under the whip of fate - direction
• 1918: Krümelchen's first love - director, producer
• 1918: Bubi, the jack-of-all-trades - director, screenplay
• 1918: poor little Helga - director, screenplay
• 1918: Passing my luck - director
• 1919: Triumph of Life - director
• 1919: His love was my death - directed
• 1919: The Seventeen Year Olds - Director, Screenplay
• 1919: The great light - direction, screenplay
• 1919: Bubi competes - directing
• 1920: One moment, ready - director, producer
• 1920: The midnight goddess - director
• 1920: Der Todfeind - director
• 1920: The Demon of Kolno - director, screenplay
• 1921: The fear of women - director, screenplay
• 1921: Am Rote Kliff, with Fritz Kortner - director, screenplay
• 1924: Sport is not necessary - director, producer

Web links

• Hanna Henning at filmportal.de
• Hanna Henning at www.film-zeit.de
• Esslinger Zeitung about Hanna Henning and Hermine Sterler