Clementine Plessner (7 December 1855 – 27 February 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actress. Plessner worked in the German film industry and appeared in over sixty films, mostly during the

silent era A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

. Plessner featured in

Richard Oswald Richard Oswald (5 November 1880 – 11 September 1963) was an Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter, and father of German-American film director Gerd Oswald. Early career Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, began h ...

's enlightenment film '' Different from the Others'' and

F.W. Murnau Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at t ...

's '' Journey into the Night''.Eisner p.275 Following the Nazi rise to power, the Jewish actress left Germany for neighbouring Austria. Later, after the Anchluss, she was arrested by the Nazi authorities and died in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Selected filmography

* ''

Diary of a Lost Woman ''Diary of a Lost Woman'' (German: ''Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen'') is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Erna Morena, Reinhold Schünzel, and Werner Krauss. The rising star Conrad Veidt also appeared. It i ...

'' (1918) * '' The Story of Dida Ibsen'' (1918) * ''

Henriette Jacoby ''Henriette Jacoby'' is a 1918 German silent film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Mechthildis Thein, Conrad Veidt and Leo Connard. It is the sequel to '' Jettchen Gebert's Story''. It is a lost film. Cast * Mechthildis Thein as Jettchen Ge ...

'' (1918) * '' Different from the Others'' (1919) * '' Nocturne of Love'' (1919) * '' The Tragedy of a Great'' (1920) * '' Humanity Unleashed'' (1920) * '' Lady Hamilton'' (1921) * '' Journey into the Night'' (1921) * ''

The Shadow of Gaby Leed ''The Shadow of Gaby Leed'' (german: Der Schatten der Gaby Leed) is a 1921 German silent film directed by Carl Boese and starring Tzwetta Tzatschewa, Otto Gebühr and Frida Richard.Bock & Bergfelder p. 149 The film's sets were designed by the ar ...

'' (1921) * '' The Circle of Death'' (1922) * '' Bigamy'' (1922) * ''

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'' (1922) * ''

Hallig Hooge ''Hallig Hooge'' is a 1923 German silent film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Dora Bergner, Evi Eva and Willy Fritsch.Bock & Bergfelder p.134 The film's sets were designed by Botho Hoefer. Cast In alphabetical order * Dora Bergner as Bri ...

'' (1923) * '' Taras Bulba'' (1924) * ''

Gobseck ''Gobseck'', an 1830 novella by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), appears in the ''Scènes de la vie privée'' section of his novel sequence ''La Comédie humaine''. ''Gobseck'' first appeared in outline form in '' La Mode'' in March 1 ...

'' (1924) * '' Girls You Don't Marry'' (1924) * '' Slaves of Love'' (1924) * '' The Voice of the Heart'' (1924) * ''

Two Children ''Two Children'' (german: Zwei Kinder) is a 1924 German silent film directed by Richard Clement Hilber and starring Alexander Murski, Olga Belajeff and Suzanne Marwille.Bock & Bergfelder p. 74 The film's sets were designed by the art director K ...

'' (1924) * '' The Circus Princess'' (1925) * '' The Iron Bride'' (1925) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1925) * '' The Clever Fox'' (1926) * ''

Superfluous People ''Superfluous People'' (German:''Überflüssige Menschen'') is a 1926 German silent film directed by Aleksandr Razumny and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Camilla von Hollay and Heinrich George.Murray It was made by Prometheus-Film which was affiliate ...

'' (1926) * '' The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden'' (1926) * '' Only a Dancing Girl'' (1926) * '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' (1926) * '' The Eleven Schill Officers'' (1926) * '' The Captain from Koepenick'' (1926) * '' The Right to Live'' (1927) * '' The White Sonata'' (1928) * ''

The Missing Wife ''The Missing Wife'' (German:''Die verschwundene Frau'') is a 1929 Austrian silent film comedy crime film directed by Karl Leiter and starring Harry Halm, Iris Arlan and Mary Kid. The sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger. The ...

'' (1929) * '' Der Monte Christo von Prag'' (1929) * '' Devotion'' (1929)

References

Bibliography

* Eisner, Lotte H. ''F. W. Murnau''. University of California Press, 1973. * Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

* 1855 births 1943 deaths Austrian Jews Austrian stage actresses Austrian film actresses Austrian silent film actresses Actresses from Vienna 20th-century Austrian actresses Austrian people who died in the Theresienstadt Ghetto {{Austria-actor-stub