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Elvira Erdmann
Acting
Biography
The daughter of the technician Arthur Erdmann and his wife Johanna, née Viertel, [1] attended the lyceums in Solingen , Essen and Chemnitz and received violin lessons at the conservatories in Breslau and Berlin . She completed her acting training with Adele Sandrock, among others . [2] In the 1920/21 season, she began her stage career at the Rotter Group's Trianon Theater in Berlin , where she worked with later well-known colleagues such as Paul Bildt , Hans Albers , Eugen Burg , and Max Zilzer, Paul Biensfeldt , Harry Hardt and Franz Weber together. Already in the following season she changed the ensemble and now worked at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm . At the same time (1922) Erdmann was in front of the camera for the first time with a supporting role in the German-Dutch joint production The Man in the Background . However, her main interest continued to be the theatre. After stints at the National Theater in Mannheim and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , she was a member of the ensemble of the United Theaters (later called the Schauspielhaus ) of the city of Cologne from the 1927/28 season to the 1933/34 season.
Filmography Movies
Acting
The man in the background
The guests at Count Otto von Trepow's East Prussian estate Gross-Ehrenfeld are Lord and Lady Ruthven, Mr Hendriks with his wife and foster-daughter Mariska, a gypsy they adopted years ago, Kundry, the fiancée of Otto's son Bernhard, and Count Stanislaus Larinski, who claims to be a Polish revolutionary wanted by the Russian government. A boating trip is organized but ends when the motor breaks down. While waiting for it to be repaired, the guests go to an inn run by Andreas and his daughter Käthe. Hendriks goes for a walk, sees the boat come back and that a man with a bent back leaves it. He notices that Kundry is afraid of Bernhard.
Das Konzert
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement.
Wenn Männer verreisen
Spaßvögel
Mayor Eberhorn is known as a womanizer to everyone in the village. Katchen, his wife, is constantly trying to convert him to a proper way of life … but in vain. When one morning, Casanova finds a stroller with a clever slogan referencing his affairs at his front door, Eberborn seeks revenge. Top suspects for the prank? The “Spassvogel”: seven friends led by the former sailor Hannes Strobel.
Kleiner Mann - ganz groß
Peter Kolle, a low-level clerk, and his wife Sabine have a happy marriage, but Peter lacks the necessary funds. Therefore, he secretly works on his invention at a friend's house at night. When his wife finds out, she angrily leaves their apartment and travels to Berlin to see her brother Alphons, to whom Peter had promised at their wedding that he would give up on the invention and to whom he had therefore given all the paperwork. Soon, they both long for each other again: Sabine travels home, Peter to Berlin. And eventually, they meet.