Helene Voss

Helene Voss , also Lene Voss or Lene Voss (* 1876 in Germany; † November 1926 there ) was a German actress with stage and silent film .

Live and act

Nothing is currently known about her early years (origin, education). Her first demonstrable permanent engagement took place in 1901 with the touring ensemble of the Berlin Apollo Theater . This was followed by engagements at other theaters in the capital, such as the Central Theater and the Walhalla Theater , where she had well-known colleagues such as Emil Albes and Heinz Schall as partners.

In 1911, the film companies Deutsche Bioscop GmbH and Meesters Projektion GmbH signed Helene Voss and gave her leading roles in their productions. In those early years she was mainly called Lene Voss or Lene Voss. These were mostly short comedies and dramas. In films by Danish stars like Asta Nielsen (“ The poor Jenny ”) or Viggo Larsen (“ The Oath of Stephan Huller ”) she had to be content with supporting roles. In the course of the years her roles became smaller and smaller, leading roles like in short films made around 1919 or in inexpensive side productions like “ In den Krallen der Geier ” were rather the exception. Her films, artistic continuously unambitious and limited to pure entertainment, gave her the opportunity at the side once so popular mimes like Ernst Lubitsch , Max Landa , Werner Krauss , Bernd Aldor , Reinhold Schünzel , Carl Auen and brothers and sisters Ilse and Curt Bois act .

Helene Voss embodied mostly down-to-earth, simple people, often hands-on, firm and a little coarse: landlords, card readers, housekeepers as well as mothers-in-law, aunts and loads of wives.

Filmography (selection)

1911: The victory of the culottes 1911: She only wants to love one hero! 1912: Poor Jenny 1912: The oath of Stephan Huller, 1st part 1912: the third 1913: Signes List 1913: One night in Berlin or the lions are loose 1914: Condition - no appendix! 1914: Miss Piccolo 1914: Maison Fifi 1914: Meshugge is the trump card 1915: The wandering happiness 1915: The ermine coat 1915: sugar and cinnamon 1915: Mieze Strempel's career 1915: The Day of Retribution 1915: The lonely woman 1915: To a pot of caviar 1915: The raspberry dish 1915: The will clause 1916: Brössings are ennobled 1916: The Bridge of Love´ 1916: a golden deal 1916: The giant baby 1916: The Trumpet Angel 1916: circus blood

1917: The theater prince 1917: The luxury bathroom 1917: The troubled hotel 1917: The newest star from the Variété 1918: The hour of retaliation 1918: Europe poste restante 1918: Bubi, the jack of all trades 1918: The patchouli mouse 1918: The lift boy 1918: The Mousetrap 1919: The Gate of Freedom 1919: The lonely wreck 1919: Necessity makes inventive 1919: Uncle Georg's will 1920: a strange family 1920: a pleasant girl 1920: Just a movie star 1920: Tortured Hearts 1921: The minor 1921: In the claws of the vulture 1921: trick track 1922: Women who commit adultery 1922: The fortune teller 1923: City fever 1925: War in Peace

Remarks

1. ↑ Information according to KinoTV.com and filmportal.de
2. ↑ according to the stage yearbooks 1902 ff.

Web links

• Helene Voss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Helene Voss at filmportal.de
• Voss at KinoTV.com