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Eduard von Winterstein

Eduard Clemens Franz Anna Freiherr von Wangenheim, 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 ==
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 RenardThe Yellow Death (1920) as Officer Karpuschkin • Figaros Hochzeit (1920) • Intrigue (1920) as Der Gatte • Mary Magdalene (1920) as Master Anton • Hamlet (1921) as King ClaudiusLady Godiva (1921) as the duke • Danton (1921) as General WestermannThe 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-DessauGold and Luck (1923) as Bauer • William Tell (1923) as Werner StauffacherThe 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 WrangelPeople in Need (1925) as General SamsonovGoetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand (1925) • Ash Wednesday (1925) as the commander • Destiny (1925) as Minister von Glayn • Wallenstein (1925) as TerzkyThe 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 BlücherTragedy of a Marriage (1927) • The Pink Slippers (1927) as the head gamekeeper • A Girl of the People (1927) as General LaudonOn the Banks of the River Weser (1927) • That Was Heidelberg on Summer Nights (1927) as Lord Wagner • Prinz Louis Ferdinand (1927) as ScharnhorstA 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 GneisenauThe Green Emperor (1939) as the second judge • Liberated Hands (1939) as Lord von Erken • Robert Koch (1939) as Prof. Ernst von BergmannD 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 MansteinKopf hoch, Johannes! (1941) • Annelie (1941) • Ohm Krüger (1941) as Commandant CronjeAndreas 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 ==References==
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