Werner Pittschau
Werner Pittschau (born March 24, 1902 in Berlin ; † October 28, 1928 near Gerdshagen , Brandenburg province ) was a German theater and film actor.
Live and act
The son of the German theater actor Ernst Pittschau senior (1859-1916) and the Viennese theater and film actress Hilda Hofer-Pittschau (1873-1961) went to the cadet school in Vienna , later in Prague , to become an officer. After the end of the First World War , he turned to a commercial apprenticeship. But soon he decided to become an actor too.
After a brief training as an actor, he made his debut in 1919 at the Deutsches Landestheater in Prague, where his mother and stepbrother Walther Pittschau (1895–1945) were also engaged at the time. After that he played on Czech, German and Austrian stages. Erika Glässner and Hans Junkermann brought him to film in 1925. In four years Werner Pittschau embodied around 30 leading roles alongside prominent partners such as Asta Nielsen or Anny Ondra .
On October 28, 1928 Werner Pittschau went on a Sunday excursion by car with his girlfriend, the dancer Wilma Harmening. On the way from Berlin to Mecklenburg , the car came off the road near the village of Gerdshagen (now the Prignitz district ) in Brandenburg, collided with a tree and rolled over several times. When the victims of the accident were discovered, Pittschau was already dead; his companion died shortly afterwards. Werner Pittschau and Wilma Harmening were buried in the Berlin cemetery Heerstraße in today's Westend district . Both graves have not been preserved.
His step brother Ernst Pittschau junior was also a well-known film actor.
Filmography
- 1925: The Anne-Liese of Dessau
- 1925: The Iron Bride
- 1925: people in need
- 1925: Hanseatic League
- 1925 luxury female
- 1926: The pride of the company
- 1926: The blatant fox
- 1926: The last cab from Berlin
- 1926: The Wiskottens
- 1926: The eleven Schill officers
- 1926: Vienna, how it cries and laughs
- 1926: The sunken fleet
- 1927: The Ballet Duke / The K. and K. ballet girls
- 1927: a murder girl
- 1927: Memories of a Nun
- 1927: Whore tragedy
- 1927: Marital conflicts
- 1927: In the shadow of the electric chair
- 1927: The governor's mistress
- 1928: Tragedy at the Royal Circus
- 1928: The Prince and the Dancer
- 1928: Kaiserjäger
- 1928: The two seals
- 1928: His Highness the servant
- 1928: The first kiss
- 1928: The White Sonata
- 1928: The secret of the Villa Saxenburg
- 1929: novel by a convent pupil ( Mária növér )
- 1929: Street acquaintances
- 1929: Archduke Johann / Archduke Hansl
literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .
- Heinz P. Adamek : Artistic Chords - Diagonal . Love, hollywood and jealousy. S 224 - 236 Böhlau, Vienna Cologne Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-20250-9 .
Web links
- Werner Pittschau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography with photo on cyranos.ch
- Biography with further photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Pittschau had a fatal accident . In: Vossische Zeitung . Monday, October 29, 1928, evening edition. P. 4.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-7759-0476-6 . S. 196. Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 493.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pittschau, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1928 |
| Place of death | Gerdshagen |