15th May 1942
Johannes Riemann
Ross-Verlag postcard depicting actor Johannes Riemann (signed). With a hand-stamped declaration to the message panel stating, 'Autograph requests can only be considered if a self-addressed, stamped envelope and a film postcard are enclosed.' Ref: 15.05.1942
Johannes Riemann (1888-1959)
(Staatsschauspieler)
Selected filmography:
Maid Happy (1933), The Gentleman from Maxim's (1933), Grand Duchess Alexandra (1933), Police Report (1934), All Lies (1938), Yvette (1938), Renate in the Quartet (1939), Her First Experience (1939), Marriage in Small Doses (1939), Bel Ami (1939), Everything for Gloria (1941), Friedemann Bach (1941), The Little Residence (1942), A Man for My Wife (1943), Beloved Darling (1943), The Song of the Nightingale (1944).
Notes on Riemann's earlier performance in City without Jews (1924):
The City Without Jews was released in 1924 and was a box-office success internationally as well as in Austria. It marks the screen debut of Austrian actor, Hans Moser, who went on to become a popular comedy star in German cinema, as the buffoonish and anti-Semitic Councillor Bernart.
In real life, Moser was far from an anti-Semite, and refused to divorce his Jewish wife during the Nazi regime. By contrast, German actor Johannes Riemann, who plays the film’s Jewish hero Leo, became a Nazi party member in the 1930s and Joseph Goebbels honoured him with the rank of Staatsschauspieler or ‘State Actor’ in 1939. He notoriously performed at a cabaret show for the staff of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
Source: Barbican.org
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