Senta Eichstaedt

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Senta Eichstaedt (* unknown; † after 1929) was a German actress . Eichstaedt made over 20 silent films between 1913 and 1929. She became known to the cinema audience as the female detective "Miss Nobody" in the crime films that the director Willy Zeyn directed in 1913 with her.

Life

Miss Nobody films that made her best known early on in her career include The Black Diamond, The Secret of Chateau Richmond , and The Hunt for the Hundred Pound Note . As a detective - "clearly emancipated" - she did not shy away from physical activity. She "took up persecutions over the roofs of houses, overcame ups and downs with a rope and sometimes disguised herself as a man in order to be the pursuer of the persecuted with equal rights in matters of clothing and footwear".

Her partner in the Miss Nobody detective film series was Fred Goebel , who played leading roles at her side as Fred Selva-Goebel before the outbreak of the First World War. He was Vivian Dartin in The Secret of Chateau Richmond and the original British gentleman Phileas Fogg in The Hunt for the Hundred Pound Note , which, as the alternative title The Journey around the World suggests, may have been the inspiration for Jules Verne's 1873 novel.

Even later, Eichstaedt remained loyal to the genre, even if she was no longer cast as a leading lady , e.g. B. 1920 in the film caliber five point two from the Joe Deebs detective series, again directed by Willy Zeyn . In it she was no longer the detective, but the sister of the banker's wife Agnes. Carl Auen played the detective . She also played in the Joe Jenkins detective drama The Midnight Visit , also in 1920, in which Kurt Brenkendorf played the leading role and Adolf Gärtner directed.

Eichstaedt also appeared several times in Urban Gad films with Asta Nielsen , for example in Zapatas Bande  (1913/14), Das Kind ruft  (1913/14), Das Feuer  (1914), Vordertreppe - Hintertreppe  (1915) and White Roses  (1916) ). In the 1919 film Die Schuld von Rudolf Biebrach she starred alongside Henny Porten .

After 1920, her engagements became less frequent. A last crime film was The Known Unknown from 1922, in which she was seen in the role of Maud. In 1925 and 1927 she played in two films with Maly Delschaft . She had her last appearance in 1929 in Carl Boese 's early thugs film Geschminkte Jugend in a small role. She doesn't seem to have acted in a sound film.

Filmography

literature

in writing:

  • Heinrich Fraenkel: Immortal Film. The great chronicle. From the magic lantern to the sound film. Part of the picture by Wilhelm Winckel. Kindler, Munich 1956, pp. 387, 389.
  • Ludwig Greve, Margot Pehle, Heidi Westhoff (eds.): “If I had the cinema!” The writers and the silent film. An exhibition of the German Literature Archive in the Schiller National Museum Marbach a. N. Catalog for the exhibition. Kösel Verlag, Munich 1976, p. 40.
  • Sebastian Hesse: camera eye and nose. The detective in early German cinema. (= KINtop-Schriften. Volume 5). Stroemfeld Verlag, Frankfurt / Basel 2003, ISBN 3-87877-765-5 .
  • Florian Nelle: Artificial paradises. From the baroque theater to the film palace. (= Film, medium, discourse. Volume 13). Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3041-9 .
  • Heide Schlüpmann: the uncanny look. The drama of early German cinema. German Film Museum Frankfurt am Main. Verlag Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, 1990, ISBN 3-87877-373-0 , pp. 136, 341-342.

in the web:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ was also called "The Hundred Pound Note" or "The Journey Around the World", cf. GECD # 26288
  2. ↑ so Dagmar Trüpschuch 2004.
  3. ↑ a still photo from it at events.at ( memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Source: Filmarchiv Austria) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.events.at
  4. ↑ according to Imdb imdb.com , in the cast at filmportal.de it is not mentioned.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Nelle p. 320 and Trüpschuch 2004: “The detective Miss Nobody (Senta Eichstaedt) hunted criminals independently as early as 1913 and handed them over to the police. The film character Nobody moved the female gaze to the center of the action and made the 'art of observation' the basis of her profession. "
  2. ↑ To the figure of "Miss Nobody":
    • In the USA around 1913 there was a short film series dedicated to a "Miss Nobody". The producer was the Nestor Film Company, the producer was David Horsley, cf. imdb
    • The British writer Ethel Carney Holdsworth named the protagonist of her novel "Miss Nobody", published on September 1, 1913. It is considered to be the first novel in Great Britain that was written by a working class woman, cf. salfordstar.com
    • A - albeit male - detective named Nobody existed as early as 1904. The German writer Emil Robert Kraft (1869–1916) had him appear between 1904 and 1906 in his colportage novel “Detective Nobody's Experiences and Travel Adventures”. Does the "Detective Nobody" go back to him, whose adventure cabaret artist Charlie Roellinghoff humorously comments as "The Last Cinema Explain"? The sketch, which is also subtitled “An evening in the suburban cinema ”, is preserved on the gramophone record Homocord 4-3256 (mx. TC1397 / 98), which was released on August 17, 1929; you can listen to it on youtube.com
  3. ↑ ran the series title “Nobody, the female detective. I ", cf. GECD # 33419
  4. ↑ THE SECRET OF CHATEAU RICHMOND D 1913 (2nd picture MISS NOBODY SERIES) according to stummfilm.at ; Heide Schlüpmann writes: “The film contains the usual genre chases, shots of urban ambience and technical achievements such as cars, motor boats, etc. These charms combine the elements of hiding, discovery, masquerade, as they do with the standing figure of the detective belong, and gain a peculiar meaning through the female occupation. ” . GECD # 23252 names Käthe Wittenberg as “Detective Nobody”, which seems to be based on an error, since THE SECRET OF CHATEAU RICHMOND is not listed in Ms. Wittenberg's filmography at filmportal.de
  5. ↑ The film was shot 'based on real events': 24,000 spectators came when the German Wilhelm Bode alias "Riccardo Sacco" appeared in May 1905 in the Vienna Prater. People knocked on the window as if Sacco were a rare zoo animal, his popularity was unbroken, cf. spiegel.de , a photo by Sacco at spiegel.de/fotostrecke : "After 32 days without food, the German hunger artist Wilhelm Bode alias" Riccardo Sacco "enjoyed his first meal at the Hotel Regent in Salford, as this photo illustrates. When Sacco had himself walled up in a hunger tower at the Munich Oktoberfest in 1904, the question of whether it was art or fraud got so involved that the mounted police had to intervene. Because the people of Munich kept fighting in front of the hunger tower, the city of Sacco banned its fasting. The starving virtuoso then continued his tour in a glass case in the Wittelsbach variety theater. "
personal data
SURNAME Eichstaedt, Senta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1929