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The actress Hertha von Walther was born as Hertha Stern in Hildesheim.
At the age of 17 she ran away from the boarding school and went to an
acting school in Leipzig. There she made first experiences as an extra
at the theater and at the opera.
She went to Max Reinhardt in Berlin one year later and with it she
managed her breakthrough on the stage.
Because she couldn't earn a fortune at the theater she also took on
small well paid parts for movies.
To her earliest performances belong "Destinée" (20), "Herzog
Ferrantes Ende (22), "Am Rande der Grossstadt" (23) and "Tragödie
der Liebe" (23), where she played together with Marlene
Dietrich as an extra.
Her first great movie success came in 1924 with "Der Berg des Schicksals"
(24), at Luis Trenker's side.
She played for the first time for director Georg Wilhelm Pabst in the
international successful production "Die freudlose Gasse" (25). In the
following years she acted under his direction time and again, so in the
well-known movies "Geheimnisse einer Seele (26), "Die Liebe der Jeanne
Ney" (27) and "Abwege" (28).
But also other directors like Friedrich Zelnik,
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Richard Oswald, Paul Czinner and Fritz
Lang esteemed the actress who was often called on for dubious roles.
To her other well-known silent movies belong the worldwide success
"Faust" (26), "Die Weber" (27), "Svengali" (27), "Dr. Bessels Verwandlung"
(27), "Spione" (28) and "Die Ehe" (29).
In the sound film era joined many other great movies her filmographie,
among them "Der Greifer" (30), Alfred Hitchcock's "Murder - Mary/Sir John
greift ein" (30), the classic "M" (31), directed by Fritz Lang, "Die Koffer
des Herrn O.F." (31) and "Der Tiger von Eschnapur" (34).
Her family insisted on not to play in movies during her short-lasting
marriage with director Paul May. Therefore she only appeared again on the
screen in 1938 with "Sergeant Berry" (38) and "Ich verweigere die Aussage"
(39).
In the war time she went on tour for troops care. When the Gestapo tried
to sign her on as an agent she fled to Portugal, later to Brazil. There
she lived together with her second husband in a mine area.
She went back to Germany in 1960 and played at the theater at the present,
later she also appeared in movies again.
Her last movies were "Jonathan" (69), "Das Schlangenei" (77) and "Satan
ist auf Gottes Seite" (82).
Other movies with Hertha von Walther:
Julot, der Apache (21) Das fränkische
Lied (22) Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit (25) Frauen, die man oft nicht
grüsst (25) Die vom anderen Ufer (25) Das Geheimnis von St. Pauli
(26) Nur eine Tänzerin (26) Die Flucht in die Nacht (26) Der Herr
des Todes (26) Das war in Heidelberg in blauer Sommernacht (26) Jugendrausch
(27) Der Geisterzug (27) Jahrmarkt des Lebens (27) Es zogen drei Burschen
(27) Dona Juana (27) Ledige Mütter (28) Charlott etwas verrückt
(28) Schicksalsnächte (28) Mann gegen Mann (28) Haus Nummer 17 (28)
Das Geständnis der Drei (28) Das Gesetz der schwarzen Berge (28) Möblierte
Zimmer (29) Vererbte Triebe (29) Die Schleiertänzerin (29) Das Donkosakenlied
(29) Stud. chem. Helene Willfüer (29) Ratten der Grossstadt (30) Es
kommt alle Tage vor... (30) Der Tiger (30) Der Schuss im Tonfilmatelier
(30) Der Weg nach Rio (30) Teilnehmer antwortet nicht (32) Tannenberg (32)
Das Recht des Kindes (32) Kampf um Blond (32) Alle machen mit (33) Der
indische Diamant (33) Das Blumenmädchen vom Grand-Hotel (33) So endete
eine Liebe (34) Sergeant Berry (38) Die Nacht der Entscheidung (38) Ich
verweigere die Aussage (39) Was wird hier gespielt (40) Unser kleiner Junge
(40) Stimme des Herzens (42) Wildvogel (43) Wilder Reiter GmbH (66) Engel,
die ihre Flügel verbrennen (70) Schulmädchen-Report - Was Eltern
nicht für möglich halten (70) Härtegrad 10 (74) Eine Dummheit
macht auch der Gescheiteste (77) Leidenschaftliche Blümchen (78) Meine
Seele ist eine leidenschaftliche Tänzerin (80) Sabbat (82) Tabus von
Vorgestern (85) |
