Hanna Henning
Hanna Henning, as Johanna Julie Adelheid of Koblinski ( born August 16, 1884 in Cannstatt, † January 9, 1925 in Berlin) was a German film director.
Life
The daughter of an insurance entrepreneur was 1907/ 08 engaged in Dessau as a singer. Her directorial debut was Hanna Henning, 1911 in a production by the Berlin-based German Bioscop GmbH. With the two actors this " sound image " - Ally Kay and " Bubi " Joseph Roemer - she worked in the following years, together again and again, often in the Bubi film Badner & Co., in whose productions she led until 1917 directed and wrote screenplays. In 1915 she founded her own company ( Hanna Henning film; 1917/18 Bubi film Henning & Co). My first long film was the three-act melodrama Under the spell of silence (1916 ) with May Henkel and Joseph Roemer. For her video appeal for donations Mother (1917 ) Hanna Henning received the Distinguished Service Cross for War Aid.
From 1918 on she worked only sporadically as a producer; more frequently led Hanna Henning for other companies directed or wrote the screenplays. In 1919, she realized at the Berlin Segall film their first major feature film, the triangle drama The seventeen year old, with Hanni Weisse and Kurt Vespermann in the lead roles. 1919/20, followed by The great light ( with Emil Jannings ), 1921 The fear of the woman ( with Otto fee ) and on the red cliff ( with Fritz Kortner ). At the same time, they also began with the production of documentary films. Hanna Henning died of pneumonia.
The name was Hanna Henning of Koblinski since an early, divorced after a short time married to the mill owner Hans Henning.