Siegfried Philippi
Siegfried Philippi , born in Siegfried Salomon Philipp , (born July 31, 1871 in Lübeck , † February 29, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German theater actor , theater director , film director and screenwriter .
Life
The son of the Jewish merchant Julius Philipp lost his mother to her suicide a year after his birth. He attended a grammar school in Berlin , and after training to be an actor, he received his first engagement at the Wallner Theater there in 1890 .
Other stage stops included Dirschau , Sondershausen , Hanau , Oldenburg , Frankfurt (Oder) and Bayreuth . He worked as a director in Wroclaw , Cologne and Hanover . Philippi has also made a guest appearance at the Royal Opera Comique in London .
He made his debut as a film director in Berlin in 1915. He initially staged dramas and melodramas in which his wife, the actress Lissy Lind , was the focus. He later also directed crime novels and comedies .
Later he worked primarily as a writer and limited himself to writing screenplays from 1930. With the coming to power of the Nazis Philippi disappeared from the public.
Filmography (direction and screenplay)
- 1915: The revenge of the Torah West
- 1916: The Duchess's jewelry
- 1917: Höhenluft (script only)
- 1917: The Harvard Premium
- 1918: The adopted child
- 1918: The woman eater
- 1919: dancers to death
- 1920: Intoxication of the senses
- 1920: Between Night and Morning (director only)
- 1920: The Woman in the Clouds (director only)
- 1920: Under the spell of suggestion (only direction)
- 1920: Murder ... the Garrick House Tragedy (director only)
- 1920: The creeping poison (only direction)
- 1921: Madeleine
- 1921: The black spider
- 1921: The Lord from the Penitentiary (director only)
- 1922: Sunken Worlds (only direction)
- 1924: The Creature (only direction)
- 1924: Playing with Destiny (direction only)
- 1925: Letters that did not reach him (script only)
- 1926: The Sanssouci mill
- 1926: The Perjurer (screenplay and camera)
- 1927: The rider's daughter (only direction)
- 1927: Liebesreigen (script only)
- 1927: On the Weser
- 1927: That was in Heidelberg on a blue summer night (only script)
- 1928: Autumn on the Rhine (only direction)
- 1928: The young lady from Argentina
- 1928: Today I was at Frieda's
- 1929: Beware of easy women (director only)
- 1929: The gentleman from the tax office (only direction)
- 1930: If you still have a home (only direction)
- 1930: Die Lindenwirtin (only screenplay)
- 1931: The Spanish Fly (script only)
- 1932: Husarenliebe (only screenplay)
literature
- Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 6, p. 220, Berlin 2001
Web links
- Siegfried Philippi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Charlottenburg I, No. 158/1936
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Philippi, Siegfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Philipp, Siegfried Salomon (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater actor, theater director, film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 29, 1936 |
| Place of death | Berlin |