Rose Liechtenstein

Rose Liechtenstein (26 March 1887 – 22 December 1955) was a German theater and film actress during the silent film era. She was also credited as Rose Lichtenstein.

Life Rose Liechtenstein was born in West Prussia in 1887. She received training at the Marie Seebach School before going to Meiningen in 1909 where her career has started. Engagements in Düsseldorf, Mannheim, Berlin and New York followed. Since 1915, Liechtenstein played in theaters in German-occupied territories in Belgium and France. Since 1916 she was also active in film business.

Career Among Liechtenstein's first films should be mentioned “Arme Eva Maria” (1916), “Der eiserne Wille” (1917), “Don Juans letztes Abenteuer” (1918), “Die Japanerin” (1919) and “Das Herz des Casanova” (1919). In the 1920s she appeared in many productions, the most well known among them are: "Dämmernde Nächte" (1920), "Moral" (1920), "Wie das Mädchen aus der Ackerstrasse die Heimat fand" (1921), "Die Tigerin" (1922).

In 1932 the almanac "Künstler am Rundfunk" dedicated a page to Liechtenstein where was written: “Rose Liectenstein was active on numerous stages at home and abroad. She is a frequent guest at the Berliner Funk-Hour. She loves her home and her cats, she has four of them.

As an artist of Jewish descent, she fled Nazi Germany to Palestine in 1933. In 1944 Liechtenstein was a part of the founding team of Teatron Kameri in Tel Aviv. There she developed into “the Israeli’s Adele Sandrock”.

Rose Liechtenstein died in Tel Aviv in 1955 at the age of 68.

Filmography

1916: Arme Eva Maria 1916: Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil 1917: Der eiserne Wille 1917: Die zweite Frau 1918: Don Juans letztes Abenteuer 1919: Dämmernde Nächte 1919: Das Gebot der Liebe 1919: Das Geheimnis des Amerika-Docks 1919: Das Herz des Casanova 1919: Der Mädchenhirt (by Egon Erwin Kisch) 1919: Die Bodega von Los Cuerros 1919: Die Braut des Cowboy 1919: Die Diamanten des Zaren 1919: Die Japanerin 1919: Die Toten kehren wieder. Enoch Arden 1919: Der Würger der Welt 1920: Moral 1920: Seine drei Frauen 1921: Die rätselhafte Zwölf 1921: Wie das Mädchen aus der Ackerstraße die Heimat fand. (Das Mädchen aus der Ackerstraße, 3. Teil) 1922: Die Tigerin 1922: Der Passagier in der Zwangsjacke 1922: Im Glutrausch der Sinne. 2. Die geschminkte Frau 1924: Die Nibelungen 1927: Metropolis 1931: M