Rosa Porten
German postcard. Photo A. Binder, Berlin. Photochemie, Berlin, K 1592.
Rosa Porten (1884-1972) was the lesser known sister of actress Henny Porten. Just like for her sister, Rosa Porten' s first film performance was in the early sound film Meissner Porzellan (1906). In contrast to Henny Porten, Rosa Porten was more active as screenwriter than as an actress. From 1910 she started this job with Das Liebesglück der Blinden, in which her sister Henny had her first part in a fiction film. In the 1910s Rosa Porten was extremely active as screenwriter for companies like Messter. Under the pseudonym of Dr. R. Portegg her husband Franz Eckstein and she wrote many scripts in the late 1910s and also directed these, for the Treumann-Larsen company. In some of these she played the female lead too, such as Die Wäscher-Resl (1916), Die Erzkokette (1917), Die Landpommeranze (1917), Die Augen der Schwester (1918), and Themis (1918). In other examples of these Treumann-Larsen productions like Das Opfer der Yella Rogesius (1917) and Wanda's Trick (1918), actress Wanda Treumann had the lead. Probably the last film the couple Eckstein-Porten directed together was Der nicht vom Weibe geborene (1918), in which Conrad Veidt played Satan. After the couple continued to collaborate, now for National-Film, but with Porten only scriptwriting and with Eckstein only directing. Examples are Lotte Lore (1921) and Hedda Gabler (1924), starring Asta Nielsen. Mid-1920s Eckstein and Porten stopped at National Film, but still did three more films: Das Mädchen aus der Fremde (1926/27), Fahrendes Volk (1927), and Die Heiratsfalle (1927). From 1931 to 1945 Rosa Porten lived in Pommern with Eckstein. Her husband died two months before the Russians and Poles invaded Pommern, forcing her to flee and ending up in Munich, where she wrote for newspapers, radio and cinema. Rosa Porten died in Munich in 1972. She had a small part in the 1950 Italo-German coproduction Land der Sehnsucht (Erich Engel/ Camillo Mastrocinque).
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Rosa Porten
German postcard. Photo A. Binder, Berlin. Photochemie, Berlin, K 1592.
Rosa Porten (1884-1972) was the lesser known sister of actress Henny Porten. Just like for her sister, Rosa Porten' s first film performance was in the early sound film Meissner Porzellan (1906). In contrast to Henny Porten, Rosa Porten was more active as screenwriter than as an actress. From 1910 she started this job with Das Liebesglück der Blinden, in which her sister Henny had her first part in a fiction film. In the 1910s Rosa Porten was extremely active as screenwriter for companies like Messter. Under the pseudonym of Dr. R. Portegg her husband Franz Eckstein and she wrote many scripts in the late 1910s and also directed these, for the Treumann-Larsen company. In some of these she played the female lead too, such as Die Wäscher-Resl (1916), Die Erzkokette (1917), Die Landpommeranze (1917), Die Augen der Schwester (1918), and Themis (1918). In other examples of these Treumann-Larsen productions like Das Opfer der Yella Rogesius (1917) and Wanda's Trick (1918), actress Wanda Treumann had the lead. Probably the last film the couple Eckstein-Porten directed together was Der nicht vom Weibe geborene (1918), in which Conrad Veidt played Satan. After the couple continued to collaborate, now for National-Film, but with Porten only scriptwriting and with Eckstein only directing. Examples are Lotte Lore (1921) and Hedda Gabler (1924), starring Asta Nielsen. Mid-1920s Eckstein and Porten stopped at National Film, but still did three more films: Das Mädchen aus der Fremde (1926/27), Fahrendes Volk (1927), and Die Heiratsfalle (1927). From 1931 to 1945 Rosa Porten lived in Pommern with Eckstein. Her husband died two months before the Russians and Poles invaded Pommern, forcing her to flee and ending up in Munich, where she wrote for newspapers, radio and cinema. Rosa Porten died in Munich in 1972. She had a small part in the 1950 Italo-German coproduction Land der Sehnsucht (Erich Engel/ Camillo Mastrocinque).
Source: www.filmportal.de