Eduard von Winterstein

Eduard Clemens Franz Anna Freiherr von Wangenheim (1 August 1871 – 22 July 1961), known as Eduard von Winterstein, was an Austrian-German film actor who appeared in over one hundred fifty German films during the silent and sound eras. He was also a noted theater actor.

Biography

Von Winterstein was born in Vienna on 1 August 1871 to landowner Hugo von Wangenheim and his second wife, Hungarian-born actress Aloysia "Luise" von Wangenheim-Dub. who had played at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Winterstein came to Gera in 1889 and acted in theaters along with his mother and sister Clementine, where he had "undeservedly forgotten" experiences. He acted in the play in 1893. The same year, he played the title role in Egmont at the opening of a theater in Annaberg on 2 April 1893. "I was re-born in Annaberg and became like a completely different person. In this small town I had really become an actor. [...] So the Anna Berger time was one of the best in my profession." he wrote in his autobiography. At this theater he met the actress Minna Menger, whom he married in 1894. They had a son, Gustav von Wangenheim (1895–1975), who went on to become an actor. The Theater in Annaberg-Buchholz is named today. and from 1898 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin under Otto Brahm. He married Hedwig Pauly (1866–1965) in 1899. "

He taught acting from 1905 to 1920 at a theater school founded by Max Reinhardt. and was cast to play the roles of energetic elders as generals, judges, landlords and directors. He won the national award thrice for his acting in Georg C. Klaren-directed Semmelweis - Retter der Mütter (1950), Wolfgang Staudte-directed Der Untertan (film) (1951) and Martin Hellberg-directed .

A street in Potsdam is named in his honour.

Selected filmography

Werner Krafft (1916) as Werner Krafft The Giant's Fist (1917) as Diether von Brake The Coquette (1917) Prostitution (1919) The Mask (1919) as Count Campobello Blonde Poison (1919) as Chauffeur During My Apprenticeship (1919) The Monastery of Sendomir (1919) Irrlicht (1919) Madeleine (1919) President Barrada (1920) Battle of the Sexes (1920) Mary Tudor (1920) as Simon Renard The Yellow Death (1920) as Officer Karpuschkin Figaros Hochzeit (1920) Intrigue (1920) as Der Gatte Mary Magdalene (1920) as Master Anton Hamlet (1921) as King Claudius Lady Godiva (1921) as the duke Danton (1921) as General Westermann The Devil and Circe (1921) The White Death (1921) as the father The Stranger from Alster Street (1921) The Adventuress of Monte Carlo (1921) as Rimay The False Dimitri (1922) as Boyard Bielsky The Diadem of the Czarina (1922) The Fire Ship (1922) Bigamy (1922) The Strumpet's Plaything (1922) The White Desert (1922) as Iwan Circus People (1922) The Stream (1922) Fridericus Rex (1922) as Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau Gold and Luck (1923) as Bauer William Tell (1923) as Werner Stauffacher The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen (1923) as Doctor Holgersen The Path to God (1924) as Thomas Balt Guillotine (1924) as Prosecutor Laroche The Little Duke (1924) as Commandant von Trucschicz Garragan (1924) Claire (1924) A Free People (1925) as Administrator von Nehling What the Stones Tell (1925) as General Wrangel People in Need (1925) as General Samsonov Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand (1925) Ash Wednesday (1925) as the commander Destiny (1925) as Minister von Glayn Wallenstein (1925) as Terzky The Mill at Sanssouci (1926) as Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau Fedora (1926) The Woman in Gold (1926) Women of Passion (1926) The Adventurers (1926) as Karl Lüttgen The Fallen (1926) as the magistrate I Liked Kissing Women (1926) as Franz Hartwig The House of Lies (1926) as Dr. Helling The Bohemian Dancer (1926) as Gamekeeper Lange The Master of Death (1926) as Colonel von Hersdorff The Good Reputation (1926) Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (1926) Lützow's Wild Hunt (1927) as Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher Tragedy of a Marriage (1927) The Pink Slippers (1927) as the head gamekeeper A Girl of the People (1927) as General Laudon On the Banks of the River Weser (1927) That Was Heidelberg on Summer Nights (1927) as Lord Wagner Prinz Louis Ferdinand (1927) as Scharnhorst A Day of Roses in August (1927) as Major von Rudow The Mysterious Mirror (1928) as the lord Master and Mistress (1928) Napoleon at St. Helena (1929) as Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher The Blue Angel (1930) as the school's director The Other (1930) as Dr. Koehler Darling of the Gods (1930) as Dr. Marberg Him or Me (1930) as R.A. Wilken Love's Carnival (1930) as Commandant von Friese Road to Rio (1931) as the police commissioner In the Employ of the Secret Service (1931) as the spy's chief Between Night and Dawn (1931) as the father The Song of Life (1931) Guest at Engagement Party Sacred Waters (1932) as Peter Waldisch Trenck (1932) as Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von der Goltz The White Demon (1932) as the Marquis d'Esquillon The First Right of the Child (1932) Secret Agent (1932) as Professor Managan Man Without a Name (1932) as the judge Frederica (1933) as Capitain Knebel Spies at Work (1933) as Commandant von Waldmüller The Roberts Case (1933) as Burgomaster Bergmann The Judas of Tyrol (1933) as Kreutzwirt At the Strasbourg (1934) as Jacob Rusti The Rider on the White Horse (1934) as the mayor The Last Waltz (1934) as General Dymoff The Higher Command (1935) as Major Regine (1935) as Keller His Late Excellency (1935) as Count Seefeld The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935) as Mr. Gerhart Hundred Days (1935) as Blücher Streak of Steel (1935) as Der Notar The Schimeck Family (1935) Trouble Backstairs (1935) as Judge Muller Martha (1936) Ninety Minute Stopover (1936) Martha (1936) Winter in the Woods (1936) as the gamekeeper Der Etappenhase (1937) as Major Grothe Madame Bovary (1937) as Huret The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937) as the supreme judge The Coral Princess (1937) as Vukowitsch Serenade (1937) as the doctor The Marriage Swindler (1938) as Franz Buschko The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1938) Napoleon Is to Blame for Everything (1938) as Mister Harrison A Prussian Love Story (1938) as General von Gneisenau The Green Emperor (1939) as the second judge Liberated Hands (1939) as Lord von Erken Robert Koch (1939) as Prof. Ernst von Bergmann D III 88 (1939) as Landarzt The Journey to Tilsit (1939) as Erwin Bohrmann In the Name of the People (1939) The Immortal Heart (1939) Stars of Variety (1939) The Golden Mask (1939) The Merciful Lie (1939) Das Herz der Königin (1940) as the English general The Girl from Barnhelm (1940) Bismarck (1940) as General von Manstein Kopf hoch, Johannes! (1941) Annelie (1941) Ohm Krüger (1941) as Commandant Cronje Andreas Schlüter (1942) as Naumann Rembrandt (1942) as Ratsherr van Straaten My Summer Companion (1943) as Angelikas Vater Münchhausen (1943) as Munchausen's father When the Young Wine Blossoms (1943) Philharmonic (1944) Hoegler's Mission (1950) The Sonnenbrucks (1951) Der Untertan (1951) Das Lied der Matrosen (1958) First Spaceship on Venus (1959) as the nuclear physicist