Diary of a Lost Woman (1912)

Movie
Original title	Diary of a Lost One
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1912
length	70 minutes
Rod
Director	Fritz Bernhardt
production	Alfred Duskes
camera	Charles Paulus (presumably)

Diary of a Lost is the (presumably) first film adaptation of the novel » Diary of a Lost. It was published by F. Fontane & Co. in Berlin in 1905 . From a dead «by Margarete Böhme . It was filmed again in 1918 by Richard Oswald and a third time in 1929 by Georg Wilhelm Pabst .

action

Thymian, the daughter of the widowed pharmacist Henning, is seduced by one of her father's employees and therefore rejected by her own family. As a result, she gets further and further into the social margins and slips into the demi-world. Only when she marries a much older count does she regain access to civil society. (Plot according to Böhme)

background

The producer was Alfred Duskes , the production company was Duskes-Filmfabriken GmbH. Berlin. The film was made in the Duskes glass studio at Blücherstrasse 12. The production costs amounted to 1,275 marks (7,000 euros). The film was released on December 2, 1912.

The film had a length of three acts at 1,275 meters, about 70 minutes.

literature

Eva Borst: Above all shame. The problem of prostitution in the literary work of Else Jerusalem, Margarete Böhme and Ilse Frapan, with special reference to the morality and sexual reform movement of the turn of the century. (= Studies on German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume 24). Verlag P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-631-46460-6 .
Eva Borst: Egolessness as a paradigm of feminine existence. Prostitution with Margarete Böhme and Else Jerusalem. In: Karin Tebben (Ed.): German-speaking women writers of the fin de siècle. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1999, pp. 114-137.
Alfred Duskes: Advertisement on March 30, 1912. In: First International Film Newspaper.
Thomas Gladysz: How many silent films were made based on Diary of a Lost Girl? (online at: louisebrookssociety.blogspot.de ) (English)
Thomas Lenz: Consumption and Modernization. The debate about the department store as a discourse about modernity. (= Cultures of society. Volume 2). transcript Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1382-7 , pp. 155-158.
Heide Schlüpmann: The brothel as an Arcadian place? 'Diary of a Lost Woman' by GW Pabst. In: Women and Film. 43, 1987.
Gudrun Wedel: autobiographies of women. A lexicon. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2010, pp. 91, 107-108, 227, 242, 314, 412, 628, 1024, 1029, 1032, 1181.

Web links

Diary of a Lost in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Diary of a lost woman at filmportal.de
Diary of a Lost Woman at The German Early Cinema Database
Berlin film studios. A small lexicon Cinegraph
Diary of a Lost Illustration of an early German poster, possibly for the 1912 version of "Diary of a Lost"

Individual evidence

↑ Paulus was the chief cameraman at Alfred Duskes, cf. Berlin film studios. A small lexicon Cinegraph
↑ 307 pages, 127th thousand, cf. Wedel p. 107.
↑ cf. Berlin film studios. A small lexicon Cinegraph
^ Gerhard Lamprecht : German Silent Films 1903-1912 . Deutsche Kinemathek eV, Berlin 1969, p. 398 .
↑ Film length calculator, frame rate: 16
↑ "We have centralized our operations and on April 15, 1912, SW 61, Blücherstr. 12 (directly at Hallescher Tor), we are opening our new cinematograph recording studio. Our film printing facilities in the same building are equipped and operate according to the latest developments in modern photography technology a daily production of 25,000 meters. " , quoted to: Berlin film studios. A small lexicon Cinegraph
↑ However, in researching my introduction to the just issued new reprint of The Diary of a Lost Girl, I found that some film databases, such as filmportal.de and IMDb, list a 1912 German production titled Diary of a Lost Girl. It was directed by Fritz Bernhardt and produced by Alfred Duskes. Little else is known of the film, which is presumably lost. And, its relationship to Böhme's book is uncertain. Does anyone know? - See more at: louisebrookssociety.blogspot.de
↑ Information provided by the sender (March 21, 2013): “I might hazard a guess and mention that this might be a poster for the stage play adaption of Bohme's novel, or possibly the lost first film adaptation, from 1912…”

[1] Paulus was the chief cameraman at Alfred Duskes, cf. Berlin film studios. A small lexicon Cinegraph

[2] 307 pages, 127th thousand, cf. Wedel p. 107.

[3] . Berlin film studios. A small lexicon Cinegraph

[4] Gerhard Lamprecht : German Silent Films 1903-1912 . Deutsche Kinemathek eV, Berlin 1969, p. 398 .

[5] Film length calculator, frame rate: 16

[6] "We have centralized our operations and on April 15, 1912, SW 61, Blücherstr. 12 (directly at Hallescher Tor), we are opening our new cinematograph recording studio. Our film printing facilities in the same building are equipped and operate according to the latest developments in modern photography technology a daily production of 25,000 meters. " , quoted to: Berlin film studios. A small lexicon Cinegraph

[7] However, in researching my introduction to the just issued new reprint of The Diary of a Lost Girl, I found that some film databases, such as filmportal.de and IMDb, list a 1912 German production titled Diary of a Lost Girl. It was directed by Fritz Bernhardt and produced by Alfred Duskes. Little else is known of the film, which is presumably lost. And, its relationship to Böhme's book is uncertain. Does anyone know? - See more at: louisebrookssociety.blogspot.de

[8] Information provided by the sender (March 21, 2013): “I might hazard a guess and mention that this might be a poster for the stage play adaption of Bohme's novel, or possibly the lost first film adaptation, from 1912…”