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Walter Wassermann
1883 - 1944 |
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. The actor and screenwriter Walter Wassermann began his artistic career as a stage actor in Neisse in 1905. In the next years followed engagements at other theaters where he also realised some plays as a director. He joined the film business in 1912 where he was also active as an actor. To his early appearances in front of the camera belong "Verspielt" (12), "Höhenmenschen" (13), "Dem Meeresgrunde abgerungen" (13) and "Im Feuer der Schiffskanonen" (15). In the 20s followed only few more performances as a movie actor, among them "Das Gesicht im Spiegel" (20), "Der Schrein der Medici" (21) and "Der rollende Korridor" (21). Walter Wassermann already wrote his first screenplay in 1915 for "Im Banne fremden Willens" (15) and from the 20s to be a screenwriter became his main activity. He wrote the screenplays for the productions "Sybill Morgan" (20), "Der Schreck auf den Tod" (21), "Das Mädchen aus der Ackerstrasse, 2. Teil" (21), "Die Schatten jener Nacht" (22), "Das Komödiantenkind" (23), "Tragödie" (25), "Der gute Ruf" (26), "Die Hochstaplerin" (27) and "Geheimpolizisten" (29) in the next years. The sound film offered him again opportunities to write the screenplay for numerous and also bigger projects. To his well-known works of those years belong "Der Nächste, bitte!" (30), "Pension Schöller" (30), "Schneider Wibbel" (31), "Der wahre Jakob" (31), "So'n Windhund" (31), "Der grosse Bluff" (33), "Roman einer Nacht" (33), "Sie und die Drei" (35), "Pygmalion" (35), "Der Bettelstudent" (36), "Sergeant Berry" (38) and "Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes" (39). His las cinematical works came during World War II into being with "Friedrich Schiller" (40), "Kora Terry" (40), "Altes Herz wird wieder jung" (43) and "Das Konzert" (44). The only movie for which Walter Wassermann was also responsible as the director was "Der Schrein der Medici" (21).
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