#dr. hermann treuner

[missholson]

”But from the age of 16, the violently suppressed longing for the theater became ever stronger. So I had no other choice than to act secretly in theater, i.e. I became another person in the evening, took a false name and played it straight on. I led so a double life of which nobody knew anything; during the day a good businessman, in the evening an idealistic actor. [...] After a short military time I was hired to Berlin. Here I played my first role in the film "Werner Krafft" at Messter Film in 1916. From then on, I acted in a movie after another. I slowly penetrated deeper and deeper into the mysteries of film art, I worked and studied nonstop. Three films from this first period remain remarkable: “Höhenluft” with Henny Porten, Richard Oswald’s “Unheimliche Geschichten” and Lubitsch’s “Madame Dubarry”. All this time I was still acting in the theater.” (free translation)

- Reinhold Schünzel

Filmkünstler; wir über uns selbst (1928) by Dr. Hermann Treuner © Sibyllen-Verlag, Berlin The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York Internet Archive

[missholson]

”One has tried to stamp me as a demonic actor. That’s not me. I am even absolutely non-demonic, as I have often shown on stage and in film. When I have a free evening I inevitably go to the theater. I just can't avoid it, because theater is my love. I couldn’t live without film and theater.” (free translation)

- Conrad Veidt

Filmkünstler; wir über uns selbst (1928) by Dr. Hermann Treuner © Sibyllen-Verlag, Berlin The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York Internet Archive