Dorrit Weixler
German film actress Dorrit Weixler (1892-1916) was one of the great comediennes of the early silent film. Her career was like a candle burning on both sides.
Already in her second film, Das rosa Pantöffelchen (1913) she anticipated the better known, bright and light comediennes of the German cinema: Ossi Oswalda and Anny Ondra. Director of the film was Franz Hofer, who would be her trusted director in those years. With him, Weixler would do 10 films such as Das Liebesbarometer and Fraülein Piccolo. In the latter she is a quicksilver waitress dressed up as a boy to push away the clients. Dring the war, Hofer directed her in films dealing with the war such as Deutsche Helden and Weihnachtsglöckchen. In 1915, Weixler left Hofer and his company Luna to work for Oliver-Film, where she became the leading actress. Her directors Paul Otto and Paul Heidemann were also often her partners as actors, but the films were often all about her and bore her name in the titles, such as Dorrits Chauffeur and Dorritts Vergnügungsreise. Unfortunately the stress of turning out one film after another - over 20 films in two years - was too much for poor Dorritt. While recovering in a sanatorium, matters grew worse and her heart gave away. At the age of only 24 years, at the apex of her success, Dorritt Weixler died.
Postcard: Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm.
Dorrit Weixler
German film actress Dorrit Weixler (1892-1916) was one of the great comediennes of the early silent film. Her career was like a candle burning on both sides.
Already in her second film, Das rosa Pantöffelchen (1913) she anticipated the better known, bright and light comediennes of the German cinema: Ossi Oswalda and Anny Ondra. Director of the film was Franz Hofer, who would be her trusted director in those years. With him, Weixler would do 10 films such as Das Liebesbarometer and Fraülein Piccolo. In the latter she is a quicksilver waitress dressed up as a boy to push away the clients. Dring the war, Hofer directed her in films dealing with the war such as Deutsche Helden and Weihnachtsglöckchen. In 1915, Weixler left Hofer and his company Luna to work for Oliver-Film, where she became the leading actress. Her directors Paul Otto and Paul Heidemann were also often her partners as actors, but the films were often all about her and bore her name in the titles, such as Dorrits Chauffeur and Dorritts Vergnügungsreise. Unfortunately the stress of turning out one film after another - over 20 films in two years - was too much for poor Dorritt. While recovering in a sanatorium, matters grew worse and her heart gave away. At the age of only 24 years, at the apex of her success, Dorritt Weixler died.
Postcard: Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm.