Countess Else
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Countess Else |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1916 |
| length | 3 acts, approx. 33 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Otto |
| script |
Franz Eckstein Rosa Porten |
| production | Jules Greenbaum |
| occupation | |
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Komtess Else is the second film in the “Else” series, which was made between 1916 and 1921. Paul Otto directed it for Jules Greenbaum in Berlin in 1916 . Else Eckersberg and Kurt Vespermann play the leading roles .
action
Countess Else is supposed to get married. In order to put what she intended to the test, she joins a women's band.
background
“Komtess Else” was part of a series with the theater actress Else Eckersberg. It was produced by Jules Grenbaum-Film GmbH Berlin. The script was written by Franz Eckstein and Rosa Porten , the older sister of actress Henny Porten , with whom he had been married since 1914. The film was available to the Berlin police in a length of 3 files and received under No. 39992 Youth ban. It was premiered on November 17, 1916 in Berlin in the Tauentzien Palace .
“ Komtess ” is the address for the unmarried daughter of a count (from Latin comitessa / French comtesse ) , which was out of use after 1918 . The musicians of women's bands were part of the entertainment culture that developed in the second half of the nineteenth century with circus and vaudeville, café and dance music, and were therefore regarded as so-called "lower class artists".
reception
It was discussed in:
- The film No. 42, 1916
- The film No. 44, 1916
- Cinematograph No. 517, 1916
and is recorded at
- Birett: Directory of films run in Germany, No. 387, 1916
- GECD # 27479
literature
- Herbert Birett: Directory of films run in Germany. Munich: Saur, 1980
- Thomas Brandlmeier: The weird cinema. Early German film comedy 1895-1917 (= extended German version of: Early German Film Comedy, 1895-1917 ). In: Thomas Elsaesser (Ed.): A Second Life. German Cinema's First Decades. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 1996, pp. 103-113.
- Ladies Chapel in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Dorothea Kaufmann: "When ladies whistle the Gracien whistle". The musician in German dance and entertainment music of the 19th century, Oldenburg 1986 (state examination work), pp. 52–63, m. Fig. On line at uni-giessen.de [4]
- Dorothea Kaufmann: "... an experienced drummer wanted" - musician in a ladies' band. To the picture of a forgotten female profession from the imperial era. Karben: Verlag Coda 1997, ISBN 9783000018381 . 237 pages
- Friedrich von Zglinicki: The way of the film. History of cinematography and its predecessors. Berlin: Rembrandt Verlag 1956.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. steffi-line [1] : "After a series of comedies, among others with the theater actress Else Eckersberg (1895 - 1989) as a partner ..."
- ↑ “In 1916 she played the main role in Komtess Else, which was followed by two more films as sequels: Else als Detektiv (1917) and Else and her cousin (1917)”, cf. Knerger, theater / TV / film [2]
- ↑ In the first decade of the 20th century, alongside Oskar Messter, probably the most important producer in Germany, cf. Cinegraph Lexicon for German-language film [3]
- ↑ Information according to GECD # 27479; on cinema cf. Zglinicki p. 449
- ↑ cf. Kaufmann (1997), p. 13