Rosa Bertens

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Rosa Bertens in 1900
Rosa Bertens as the mother in August Strindberg's Der Scheiterpaufen

Rosa Bertens ( 1860 in Constantinople - October 5, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German theater and film actress .

Life

Rosa Bertens was raised in Berlin. She discovered her love for the theater during performances at the Burgtheater. After training with Adolf Sonnenthal , she began her first engagement in Nuremberg in 1879 . There she worked successfully in the naive subject and then moved to the City Theater in Cologne , from where she was appointed to the German Theater in Petersburg. In 1887 she joined the Association of the Berlin Residence Theater, in 1894 she went to the German Theater and in 1895 back to the Residence Theater. In 1898 she moved to the Lessing Theater, to which she belonged until at least 1902. In 1911 she belonged to the Berlin Max Reinhardt Ensemble and played the Iokaste alongside Ferdinand Bonn in the Hofmannsthal stage adaptation of King Oedipus .

In 1913 she had a contract with Literaria Film in which she was guaranteed a salary of 1,500 marks / month (8,142 euros / month). Films from this time with her have not survived, however. Only in 1921 does it appear in the film Im Strudel der Großstadt (director: Kurt Gerron ).

She died in Berlin in 1934.

Filmography

  • 1921: In the whirlpool of the big city
  • 1924: ways of love
  • 1931: The Erlkönig
  • 1931: Le roi des aulnes

literature

Web links

Commons : Rosa Bertens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Program leaflet for the Reichshallen Theater in Cologne for February 14, 1911.
  2. ^ Herbert Birett : Light plays. The cinema in Germany until 1914. S. XXXV, Q-Verlag Munich, 1994.