Hermann Picha

Hermann Picha
Born	Hermann August Karl Picher 20 March 1865 Charlottenburg, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	7 June 1936(1936-06-07) (aged 71) Berlin, Nazi Germany
Occupation(s)	Film actor Stage actor
Years active	1914–1935

Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting roles during his career. He played the title role in the 1920 film Wibbel the Tailor, directed by Manfred Noa.[1] He appeared in Fritz Lang's Destiny.[2]

Selected filmography

• The Armoured Vault (1914)
• Hilde Warren und der Tod (1917)
• The Princess of Neutralia (1917)
• Wedding in the Eccentric Club (1917)
• The Beggar Countess (1918)
• Five Minutes Too Late (1918)
• The Rat (1918)
• Your Big Secret (1918)
• The Commandment of Love (1919)
• Veritas Vincit (1919)
• The Derby (1919)
• State Attorney Jordan (1919)
• The Golden Lie (1919)
• The Woman at the Crossroads (1919)
• Irrlicht (1919)
• The Platonic Marriage (1919)
• The Bodega of Los Cuerros (1919)
• In the Whirl of Life (1920)
• Mascotte (1920)
• From the Files of a Respectable Woman (1920)
• Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (1920)
• President Barrada (1920)
• Kri-Kri, the Duchess of Tarabac (1920)
• Wibbel the Tailor (1920)
• A Day on Mars (1921)
• Seafaring Is Necessary (1921)
• The Island of the Lost (1921)
• Memoirs of a Film Actress (1921)
• The Golden Plague (1921)
• The Inheritance of Tordis (1921)
• The Riddle of the Sphinx (1921)
• Hashish, the Paradise of Hell (1921)
• Destiny (1921)
• Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1921)
• The Stranger from Alster Street (1921)
• The Love Corridor (1921)
• The Hotel of the Dead (1921)
• The Big Thief (1922)
• The Queen of Whitechapel (1922)
• The Cigarette Countess (1922)
• The Shadows of That Night (1922)
• Bigamy (1922)
• To the Ladies' Paradise (1922)
• Miss Rockefeller Is Filming (1922)
• The Love Nest (1922)
• The Lady and Her Hairdresser (1922)
• The Curse of Silence (1922)
• The Lost House (1922)
• Lumpaci the Vagabond (1922)
• Lola Montez, the King's Dancer (1922)
• Sunken Worlds (1922)
• The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen (1923)
• Black Earth (1923)
• The Ravine of Death (1923)
• Time Is Money (1923)
• The Beautiful Girl (1923)
• Adam and Eve (1923)
• The Man Without Nerves (1924)
• The Little Duke (1924)
• Darling of the King (1924)
• The Heart of Lilian Thorland (1924)
• Playing with Destiny (1924)
• Gobseck (1924)
• Debit and Credit (1924)
• Arabella (1924)
• Father Voss (1925)
• The Man Who Sold Himself (1925)
• Three Waiting Maids (1925)
• The Elegant Bunch (1925)
• The Company Worth Millions (1925)
• Old Mamsell's Secret (1925)
• Ballettratten (1925)
• The City of Temptation (1925)
• The Woman with That Certain Something (1925)
• In the Valleys of the Southern Rhine (1925)
• Nick, King of the Chauffeurs (1925)
• The Old Ballroom (1925)
• Comedians (1925)
• Flight Around the World (1925)
• Passion (1925)
• The Venus of Montmartre (1925)
• If You Have an Aunt (1925)
• The Morals of the Alley (1925)
• The King and the Girl (1925)
• Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days (1925)
• Bismarck (1925)
• People to Each Other (1926)
• The Ones Down There (1926)
• Gretchen Schubert (1926)
• The Boxer's Bride (1926)
• I Liked Kissing Women (1926)
• The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden (1926)
• Department Store Princess (1926)
• Only a Dancing Girl (1926)
• Vienna, How it Cries and Laughs (1926)
• Love's Joys and Woes (1926)
• When I Came Back (1926)
• Women of Passion (1926)
• The Circus of Life (1926)
• The Pride of the Company (1926)
• Fadette (1926)
• Maytime (1926)
• Marriage Announcement (1926)
• Annemarie and Her Cavalryman (1926)
• The Prince and the Dancer (1926)
• The White Horse Inn (1926)
• Manon Lescaut (1926)
• Tartuffe (1926)
• Darling, Count the Cash (1926)
• The Captain from Koepenick (1926)
• The Schimeck Family (1926)
• The Fallen (1926)
• Why Get a Divorce? (1926)
• Circus Romanelli (1926)
• The Tales of Hermann (1926)
• The Three Mannequins (1926)
• The Young Man from the Ragtrade (1926)
• Dancing Vienna (1927)
• Poor Little Colombine (1927)
• Marie's Soldier (1927)
• The Woman Who Couldn't Say No (1927)
• A Crazy Night (1927)
• Excluded from the Public (1927)
• A Girl of the People (1927)
• On the Banks of the River Weser (1927)
• The Imaginary Baron (1927)
• Behind the Altar (1927)
• German Women - German Faithfulness (1927)
• The Awakening of Woman (1927)
• Weekend Magic (1927)
• The Girl from Abroad (1927)
• Rinaldo Rinaldini (1927)
• Svengali (1927)
• The Master of Nuremberg (1927)
• The Pink Slippers (1927)
• Circle of Lovers (1927)
• The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927)
• Rhenish Girls and Rhenish Wine (1927)
• The Weavers (1927)
• The Convicted (1927)
• The Market of Life (1928)
• The Green Alley (1928)
• Prince or Clown (1928)
• The Insurmountable (1928)
• Suzy Saxophone (1928)
• Lemke's Widow (1928)
• Cry for Help (1928)
• Autumn on the Rhine (1928)
• Secrets of the Orient (1928)
• The Lady in Black (1928)
• Children's Tragedy (1928)
• Robert and Bertram (1928)
• It's You I Have Loved (1929)
• Tempo! Tempo! (1929)
• The Black Domino (1929)
• The Circus Princess (1929)
• Youth of the Big City (1929)
• Sinful and Sweet (1929)
• Queen of Fashion (1929)
• Foolish Happiness (1929)
• Gentlemen Among Themselves (1929)
• Danube Waltz (1930)
• The Fate of Renate Langen (1931)
• Circus Life (1931)
• Errant Husbands (1931)
• Such a Greyhound (1931)
• A Crafty Youth (1931)
• The Beggar Student (1931)
• Man Without a Name (1932)
• A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)
• The Escape to Nice (1932)
• Haunted People (1932)
• Paprika (1932)
• Mother and Child (1934)
• The World Without a Mask (1934)
• Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne! (1935)

References

1. Usai p.502
2. Kreimeier p.73

Bibliography

• Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
• Usai, Paolo Cherchi. Before Caligari: German cinema, 1895-1920. University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

External links

• Hermann Picha at IMDb