Pink Porten
Rosa Porten (born February 19, 1884 in Düsseldorf , † May 7, 1972 in Munich ) was a German actress , screenwriter , film director and writer and was one of the first female auteur filmmakers to be among the pioneers of silent film .
biography
Rosa Porten is the older sister of the famous silent movie star Henny Porten . She had been on stage since she was a child and started her professional career at the beginning of the 20th century.
Through her father, the opera singer and director Franz Porten , she first appeared in events organized by the Association of the Rhinelander , then also in small roles on regular Berlin theaters. She received her first important permanent engagement in 1907 from Berlin's Thalia Theater.
For Rosa Porten and her sister, father Franz also made contact with the as yet underdeveloped cinematography in 1906 and conveyed their first appearances in so-called sound images. Her debut film was called Meißner Porzellan .
In 1911 Porten wrote her first screenplay for the film Das Liebesglück der Blinden with her sister in the lead role. For Henny Porten her career as a star of the silent film began with this film. Rosa Porten wrote more than twenty scripts, some of which she also directed together with her husband, the film director Franz Eckstein , and in which she often played a role. In 1918, in First Love , she was behind the camera in addition to writing and directing. The Porten / Eckstein couple used the common pseudonym Dr. R. Portegg .
After the First World War , she not only continued her work as a screenwriter, but also tried herself as a writer. Her works include the novels Filmprinzess , Androgyny and The New Generation .
Before the start of the sound film era, she retired to Bavaria for private life. She had played her last role in silent films back in 1920. After the death of her husband in February 1945 in the Pomeranian Bauerhufen, shortly before the Red Army marched into Pomerania, the former actress initially stayed in the area east of the Oder, which has now been settled by Poland and ruled by Soviet soldiers. “ It was hell! ", As Rosa Porten complained according to the" Pommerscher Zeitung "of December 15, 1962. It was not until the end of December 1945 that she managed to flee to the west (to southern Germany). On August 25, 1950, she appeared in front of the camera for the last time in Jenny Jugo 's last, unfinished film, the adventure and travel-loving game Land of Sehnsucht , in the studios of Munich - Geiselgasteig , directed by Erich Engel .
Most recently Rosa Porten lived as Therese Eckstein in Pullach im Isartal , part of the municipality Großhesselohe. According to a written report from the administration of the Munich Am Biederstein Municipal Hospital, she died on May 7, 1972 at 10:40 a.m.
Filmography (selection)
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Record recordings
- 1911, September 13th: “The Archangel Gabriel announces the birthday of Christ's shepherds”, on Monarch Record “Grammophon” 0941016/7
literature
- Annette Förster: In search of Rosa Porten in German silent films. In: Filmblatt. 17th year, No. 50, Winter 2012/13, ISSN 1433-2051 , pp. 7-19.
Web links
- Rosa Porten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography with photo
- Rosa Porten at filmportal.de
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| SURNAME | Porten, pink |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1972 |
| Place of death | Munich |