Lisa Weise (16 December 1880 as Louise Ottilie Georgine Anna Weise – 6 December 1951Stadtarchiv Weimar, Sterberegister Standesamt Weimar, Nr. 817/1951, zitiert nach dem amtlichen Vermerk im Geburtsregister) was a German actress and singer.
Life and career Born in WeimarStadtarchiv Weimar, Geburtsregister Standesamt Weimar, No. 528/1880 (online on Ancestry.com, fee required) the daughter of the oboist and Grand Ducal chamber virtuoso Ernst Weise and his wife Ottilie, née Zimmermann, she began her stage career in 1903 in Metz and then played at various Berlin theatres between 1904 and 1910. In 1910 she moved to the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna for one season before returning to Berlin, where she worked at the Neues Operettentheater am Schiffbauerdamm until 1917.
Parallel to her stage work, Weise regularly appeared in front of the camera as a leading actress from 1915 onwards, having already made an appearance in the sound picture The Count of Luxembourg in 1910.Der Graf von Luxemburg at The German Early Cinema Database, DCH Cologne, retrieved 4 July 2021 She usually acted alongside Karl Beckersachs under the direction of Friedrich Zelnik.
Weise was married from 1907 to 1919 to factory owner Felix Stern,, Heiratsregister Standesamt Berlin III, No. 217/1907 (online on Ancestry.com, fee required) who was the screenwriter responsible for Carl Wilhelm's 1915 feature film Carl and Carla.
Weise died in Weimar at the age of 70.
Filmography 1910: Der Graf von Luxemburg 1915: Carl und Carla 1916: Fräulein Wildfang 1917: Klein Doortje 1917: Edelweiß 1917: Ein Zirkusmädel 1917: His Majesty the Hypochondriac 1917: Das große Los 1917: Gänseliesel 1918: Der Liftjunge 1918: Amalie – 45 Mark
Radio plays 1926: Kurt Kraatz, Georg Okonkowski: Polish Economy. Posse with song in 3 acts. Directed by Alfred Braun (Sendespiel (radio play adaptation) – , Sendespielbühne – Abteilung: Schauspiel) Role: Erika, daughter of the city councillor Adalbert Mangelsdorff. First broadcast: 3 November 1926, cf. DRA Radio Play Database. A review appeared under the title "Die Situationskomik in Schwank und Posse – Zum Sende-Spiel "Polnische Wirtschaft"" in: Die Funkstunde. Journal of the Berlin Broadcasting Station. Volume 3. Fascicule 44. 31 October 1926. . PDF
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External links
Lisa Weise on Filmportal