Ossi Oswalda

Ossi Oswalda

Born	(1899-02-02)2 February 1899 Niederschönhausen, Brandenburg, Imperial Germany (now part of Berlin)
Died	1 January 1948(1948-01-01) (aged 48) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Other names	Oswalda Stäglich
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1916–1933

Ossi Oswalda (2 February 1899 – 1 January 1948), born Oswalda Stäglich in Niederschönhausen, was a German actress, who mostly appeared in silent films. She was given the nickname 'The German Mary Pickford' due to her popularity at the time.^[1]

Career

Oswalda trained as a ballerina and became a dancer for a theater in Berlin. She made her film debut in Richard Oswald's Nächte des Grauens (Night of Horrors) before being discovered by the actor and screenwriter Hanns Kräly, who in turn recommended her to director Ernst Lubitsch. During her early career, she starred in several films by Lubitsch, including The Merry Jail, I Don't Want to Be a Man, The Oyster Princess and The Doll. Her popularity at the time earned her the nickname 'The German Mary Pickford'.

In 1921, Oswalda started her own film production company with her husband at the time, baron Gustav von Koczian. However, during the next four years they only produced four films, all starring Oswalda. From 1925 on, she was contracted to Ufa.

Oswalda's career waned along with the silent film era, and she only acted in two sound films, making her final appearance on screen in the 1933 film The Star of Valencia. Later on, she became a stage actor, and in 1943, wrote the story for the Czechoslovakian film Čtrnáctý u stolu. Oswalda died in the most miserable condition in Prague at the age of 48.

Filmography

Silent films

Nächte des Grauens (1916)
Shoe Palace Pinkus (1916)
Der Hilferuf, 1916
Leutnant auf Befehl, 1916
Der Tod auf Zeche Silva, 1916
Der G.m.b.H.-Tenor, 1916
Das Fidele Gefängnis (The Merry Jail), 1917)
Ossi's Tagebuch, 1917
When Four Do the Same (1917)
Prinz Sami, 1917
Dem Licht entgegen, 1918
Das Mädel vom Ballett (The Ballet Girl), 1918
Der Rodelkavalier, 1918
Ich möchte kein Mann sein (I Don't Want to Be a Man), 1918
Das Schwabemädle, 1918
My Wife, the Movie Star (1919)
Das Mädchen aus dem Wilden Westen, 1919
Das Millionenmädel, 1919
Meyer from Berlin (1919)
Die Austernprinzessin (The Oyster Princess), 1919
Die Puppe (The Doll), 1919
Hundemamachen, 1919
Die Wohnungsnot, 1919

Kakadu und Kiebitz, 1920
Putschliesel, 1920
Ein Weihnachtsfilm für Grosse, 1924
Colibri (1924)
Niniche (1925)
Express Train of Love (1925)
The Girl with a Patron (1925)
The Adventure of Mr. Philip Collins (1925)
Gräfin Plättmamsell, 1926
Die Fahrt ins Abenteuer (The Wooing of Eve), 1926
Darling, Count the Cash (1926)
Die kleine vom Varieté, 1926
The Girl on a Swing (1926)
A Crazy Night (1927)
Floretta and Patapon (1927)
Es zogen drei Burschen, 1927
Wochenendbraut, 1927
Eddy Polo mit Pferd und Lasso, 1928
Die Vierte von rechts, 1928
Das Haus ohne Männer, 1928
Ossi hat die Hosen an (Sir or Madam), 1928
Der Dieb im Schlafcoupée, 1929

Sound films

Josef the Chaste (1930)
Der Stern von Valencia (The Star of Valencia), 1933

References

↑ Cyranos. "Ossi Oswalda". Cyranos. Retrieved 5 February 2012.

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