Wanda Treumann (born Wanda Reich; 17 November 1883 – 29 April 1963) was a German theatre and film actress and film producer of the silent era.[4] A leading lady in a number of productions during the Imperial era and the Weimar Republic, she retired from the screen in 1922. Her later life remains obscure.
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| Born | Wanda Reich 17 November 1883[1] |
| Died | 29 April 1963 (aged 79)[3] Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupations | Actress, Producer |
| Years active | 1910-1922 (film) |
Early life
editWanda Treumann was born in Wodzisław Śląski (German: Loslau), then part of the German Empire, as Wanda Reich into a Jewish family.[2] Her father, Salomon Reich, belonged to the city’s financial and intellectual elite, while her mother, Amalia Reich, came from the Trumann family.[2] She lived in Upper Silesia until 1903, when she married Carl Treumann, who also came from a Jewish family from Wodzisław Śląski and was related to her mother’s relatives.[2] After their marriage, she moved with her husband to Berlin, where she developed her acting career and later became a film producer.[2]
Career
editShe ran a film studio in Lankwitz and, after 1922, focused mainly on her theatre career.[2] She was widowed in 1927. Her second husband was Hans Brennen, from whom she divorced in 1937. Amid rising antisemitism in Nazi Germany,[2] she emigrated to Australia in 1938. She settled in Melbourne, where she was active in the local Jewish community. She died in 1963.
Selected filmography
edit- The Oath of Stephan Huller (1912)
- The Coquette (1917)
- Not of the Woman Born (1918)
- In the Castle by the Lake (1918)
- The Secret of the Scaffold (1919)
- A Night in Paradise (1919)
- The Secret of Wera Baranska (1919)
- Colonel Chabert (1920)
References
edit- ↑ Wanda Treuman in the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Piotr Hojka, Sebastian Rosenabaum, Następnym razem chciałabym zagrać lepiej. "Czasypismo" 1-2/2025, Katowice 2025
- ↑ "Wanda Treumann Obituary". Australian Jewish News (Melbourne, Vic. : 1935 - 1999). The Australian Jewish News. 17 May 1963. p. 20. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ↑ Elsaesser & Wedel p.108
Bibliography
edit- Thomas Elsaesser & Michael Wedel. A Second Life: German Cinema's First Decades. Amsterdam University Press, 1996.
- Piotr Hojka, Sebastian Rosenbaum, Następnym razem chciałabym zagrać lepiej, [w:] "Czasypismo" nr 1-2/2025, Katowice 2025
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