Otto Gebühr

German actor Otto Gebühr (1877-1954) appeared in 102 films between 1917 and 1962. He is best known for his interpretation of Friedrich II (Frederick the Great), a role he played in 16 films and countless stage performances. He was one the most famous actors of the Weimar period, and thanks to his authoritative roles the Nazis gave him the title 'Actor of the State'.


German postcard by W.J. Morlins / Ross Verlag, no. 647/2. Photo: Karl Schenker. Publicity still for Fridericus Rex (Arzén von Cserépy, 1921). Fridericus Rex was a four-part series with Otto Gebühr as King Frederick II as Crown Prince in part I and II.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 651/2. Otto Gebühr as crown prince Frederick (future Frederick II) and Lilly Alexander as Doris Ritter in Fridericus Rex (Arzen von Cserépy, 1921-1922).


German postcard by Ross Verlag. Photo: Fox. Otto Gebühr as King Frederick the Great in the German silent film Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3185/2, 1928-1929. Photo: National. Publicity still for Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/1. Photo: Ufa. Otto Gebühr as Frederick the Great in Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (Gustav Ucicky, 1930).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3326/1, 1931-1944. Photo: Tobis. Publicity still for Der große König/The Great King (Veit Harlan, 1942).

The King of Prussia

Otto Gebühr was born in Kettwig (now Essen), Germany in 1877. He was the son of merchant Otto Gebühr and his wife Fanny Mathilde Moll. He grew up in Hülsenbusch, a part of Gummersbach, and, after his father’s death, in Köln (Cologne).

After attending grammar school he had a trade training at a wool firm. In 1896 he worked as a correspondent in foreign languages for a firm in Berlin, but he also had acting classes. For a while, he then worked as a strolling actor till he got a contract at the Stadttheater Görlitz.

From 1898 to 1908, he worked at the Königlichen Hoftheater in Dresden, and till 1914 at the Lessingtheater and the Theater in der Königgrätzer Straße, both in Berlin. During the First World War, he was an army volunteer for the field artillery regiment and became a second lieutenant. After this, he worked from 1917 to 1919 for famous director Max Reinhardt at the Deutschen Theater in Berlin.

At the same time, he began to appear in silent films. His film debut was Der Richter/The Judge (Hans Land, 1917) for the Messter company. Gebühr was a look-a-like of King Friedrich II (1712-1786). Introduced by his colleague Paul Wegener, director Carl Boese cast him as the King of Prussia in the silent film Die Tänzerin Barberina/The Dancer Barbarina (Carl Boese, 1920). The role would become his breakthrough. He would play Friedrich several times, but initially in the very successful, four-part film series Fridericus Rex (1920-1923).

To his other well-known silent films belong the crime film Whitechapel (Ewald André Dupont, 1920), the worldwide success Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam/The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Carl Boese, Paul Wegener, 1920), Wilhelm Tell (Rudolf Dworsky, Rudolf Walther-Fein, 1923), Die Perücke/The Wig (Berthold Viertel, 1925), Die Gesunkenen/The Sunken (Rudolf Walther-Fein, Rudolf Dworsky, 1925), and Waterloo (Karl Grune, 1929).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 651/4, sent by mail in 1922. Photo: Cserépy-Film Co. Still for Fridericus Rex (1921).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 651/8, sent by mail in 1922. Photo: Cserépy-Film Co. Still for Fridericus Rex (1922) with Lili Flohr.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 51/9. Photo: Fox. Otto Gebühr as King Frederick the Great in Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926).


Austrian postcard by Iris Verlag, no. 450. Photo: Fox Film.


German postcard by Eiko Film / National-Film A.G., Berlin. Photo: Eiko Film / National. Publicity still for In treue stark/In faithful strong (Heinrich Brandt, 1926). Caption: Otto Gebúhr as commander of the Line Ship Heffen.


Austrian postcard by Iris Verlag, no. 816. Photo: National Film / Mondial AG. Otto Gebühr in the German silent film Die Sporck'schen Jäger (Holger-Madsen, 1926).


German postcard by W.J. Morlins, Berlin / Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 647/11. Photo: Karl Schenker / Cserépy-Film Co. Otto Gebühr as Friedrich II in Der Alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928).

First National Socialist

After the introduction of the sound film, Otto Gebühr again had a huge success as the King of Prussia in Das Flötenkonzert in Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (Gustav Ucicky, 1930). He repeated his role in the remake of Die Tänzerin von Sanssouci/Barberina (Friedrich Zelnik, 1932) at the side of Lil Dagover and Hans Stüwe.

Gebühr was the cinematic incarnation of the heroic Prussian, and his type was popular during the Third Reich. Gebühr was a voluntary pawn in the propaganda machine of the Nazis and appeared in several films, including Fridericus (Johannes Meyer, 1937) with Lil Dagover, as the ‘First National Socialist’, as propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels had called him.

In 1938 Goebbels gave Gebühr the title 'Staatsschauspieler' (Actor of the State). He was then one of the four highest-paid and most famous actors in Germany - the others were Heinz Rühmann, Hans Albers and Heinrich George. Among his entertainment films were big hits such as Der Choral von Leuthen/The Anthem of Leuthen (Carl Froelich, Arzén von Cserépy, 1933) with Olga Tschechova, Nanon (Herbert Maisch, 1938) with Johannes Heesters, and Casanova heiratet/Casanova Marries (Viktor de Kowa, 1939).

Some of his roles, like Blücher in Waterloo (Karl Grune, 1928) and the King of Saxony in Bismarck (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1940), had the same authoritative features as Friedrich II. He again appeared as Friedrich II in Veit Harlan’s epic Der große König/The Great King (Veit Harlan, 1942).

Till the end of the Third Reich, he appeared in more light entertainment films like Immensee (Veit Harlan, 1943) starring Kristina Söderbaum and Carl Raddatz, Die goldene Spinne/The Golden Spider (Erich Engels, 1943), and Der Erbförster/The Hereditary Forester (Alois Johannes Lippl, 1945).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1067/1, 1927-1928. Photo Alex Binder.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1960/1, 1927-1928. Photo: National.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3352/1, 1928-1929. Photo: National.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3875/1, 1928-1929. Photo: Emelka. Publicity still for Waterloo (Karl Grune, 1928), in which Gebühr played General/Fieldmarshall Blücher and Frederick the Great. Here he is dressed as Blücher.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4052/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Anton Sahm, München.


Austrian postcard by Iris Verlag, no. 738. Photo: Treuhand-Film / Mondial A.G. / National. Publicity still for Scapa Flow (Leo Lasko, 1930) with Claire Rommer.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/6. Photo: Ufa. Otto Gebühr as Frederick the Great in Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (Gustav Ucicky, 1930). This picture is a literal citation of the famous painting Flötenkonzert Friedrichs des Großen in Sanssouci (1850-52) by Adolph (von) Menzel, now at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

Heimatfilms

From 1947 on, Otto Gebühr was permitted to work again in the theatre. His first post-war film was the drama ...und über uns der Himmel/...and the Sky Above Us (Josef von Báky, 1947) starring Hans Albers.

Till his death, he appeared in many entertainment films. He often played the odd companion or the cheerful senile maverick in such Heimatfilms as Melodie des Schicksals/Melody of Destiny (Hans Schweikart, 1950) with Brigitte Horney, and Grün ist die Heide/The Heath Is Green (Hans Deppe, 1951) starring Sonja Ziemann and Rudolf Prack.

Again he also appeared under the direction of Veit Harlan in Unsterbliche Geliebte/Immortal Beloved (1951) with Kristina Söderbaum.

His final film was Die Blonde Frau des Maharadscha/The Blonde Wife of the Maharadja (Veit Harlan, 1962) – a new version of Die Gefangene des Maharadscha/Circus Girl (Veit Harlan, 1954). The film was released eight years after his death.

Otto Gebühr died of heart failure in 1954, in Wiesbaden, Germany. He was twice married. In 1910 he married Cornelia Bertha Julius, with whom he had a daughter, actress Hilde Gebühr. His second wife was actress Doris Krüger, with whom he was married from 1942 till her death in 1950. They had a son, Prof. Dr. Michael Gebühr.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5444/3, 1930-1931. Photo: Ufa. Otto Gebühr as Friedrich II in Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 5663/11, 1930-1931. Photo: Ufa.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3098/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Tobis.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3265/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Tobis.


German postcard by Film-Foto-Verlag, no. A 3428/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Binz / Tobis.


German postcard. Photo: Krannhals.


German postcard by Kunst und Bild, Berlin, no. A 1098. Photo: Eva-Film / Constantin / Marhoffer. Publicity still for Rosen-Resli/Rose-Girl Resli (Harald Reinl, 1954).

Sources: Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), Wikipedia (German), Deutsches Historisches Museum (German), and IMDb.

This post was last updated on 10 May 2024.

Der alte Fritz (1928)

The German silent film Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928) was one of the 16 films in which Otto Gebühr interpreted Friedrich II (Frederick the Great). It was the last of the Frederick the Great film cycle of the silent film era of the Weimar republic.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 87/1. Photo: National Film. Otto Gebühr in Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 87/2. Photo: National Film. Otto Gebühr in Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 87/3. Photo: National Film. Otto Gebühr in Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 87/4. Photo: National Film. Otto Gebühr in Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928).

The Old Fritz

Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz was a two-part German historical film, made in 1927 and released in January 1928 in Germany. It was the last of the Frederick the Great film cycle of the German silent film era - several sounds films would follow still.

Star Otto Gebühr was a look-a-like of king Friedrich II (1712-1786), and ‘Friedrich dem Großen’ would become his role of a lifetime. Introduced by his colleague Paul Wegener, director Carl Boese cast him as the king of Prussia in the silent film Die Tänzerin Barberina (Carl Boese, 1920). The role would become his breakthrough and he would play the role again and again, both on stage and on the screen.

Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz was produced and directed by Gerhard Lamprecht, while the script was by Lamprecht, Luise Heilborn-Körbitz, and Hans Torius. Karl Hasselmann was the cinematographer, while Otto Moldenhauer took care of the art direction. National Film distributed the film.

In Part 1, the Seven Year War (1756-1763) has ended and Frederick has decided to restore his damaged country, but troubles pester him. His nephew, the Crown Prince Friedrich (Heinz Klockow), a persistent skirt-chaser, is married to Elisabeth von Braunschweig (Charlotte Ander), but the marriage is an unhappy one, while the prince courts a commoner, Wilhelmine Enke (Dina Gralla).

The King raises new taxes on alcohol, spices, and coffee. He only cares about war invalids and compulsory education. When he finds out about his son's affair, he expels the mistress. Frederick's friends are appalled, as he treats his son like once his father did to himself. Wilhelmine stands on her rights by claiming she is getting a child from the prince. The prince is separated from his wife, as not only he but also she has had several extramarital affairs. The King now marries his nephew to Friederike Luise von Hessen-Darmstadt (Renate Brausewetter).

Part 2 takes place in 1777. The young Emperor Joseph II (Peter von Hahn) wants to annex Ansbach-Bayreuth, because he thinks the Prussian king is already too old and too ill to lead another campaign anyway. Angered about this, Friedrich returns to the battlefield. But there is no battle, the war is undertaken and finished with treaties.

From now on, the king has to deal only with small stuff. He helps the miller Arnold to his right, because the latter is about to lose his mill to the Court of Appeal, so the King dismisses all the judges. Frederick is now despised by many because of his severity but also loved because of his care for his subjects. Lovingly and mockingly at the same time, they now call him "Old Fritz". He dies on 16 August 1786, seriously ill and bitter. Hardly anyone mourns for him.

Apart from the actors mentioned above, Julia Serda played the Queen in both parts, Berthold Reissig played Prince Heinrich, Wilhelm Hertwig played Prince Ferdinand, and Elsa Wagner played Princess Amalie. In Part 2, the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm was played by Anton Pointner.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 87/5. Photo: National Film. Otto Gebühr in Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 87/6. Photo: National Film. Otto Gebühr in Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 87/8. Photo: National Film. Otto Gebühr in Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3185/1. Photo: National Film. Otto Gebühr in Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928).


German postcard by WJ Morlins, Berlin / Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 647/11. Photo: Karl Schenker / Cserépy-Film Co. Otto Gebühr as Friedrich II in Der Alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928).

Sources: Wikipedia (English and German), and IMDb.

Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci (1930)

In the German early sound film Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930), Otto Gebühr returned as King Frederick the Great (Friedrich II) of Prussia - and for the first time he speaks on screen. The film depicted the incidents that led to the Seven Years' War. The sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. Location filming took place around the Berlin area including at the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam. After the premiere, there were fierce protests against the film in Germany.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/1. Photo: Ufa. Otto Gebühr as Frederick the Great in Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (Gustav Ucicky, 1930).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/2. Photo: UFA. Publicity still of Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930) with Otto Gebühr, Friedrich Kayssler, Alfred Beierie, and Georg John.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/3. Photo: UFA. Publicity still of Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930) with Otto Gebühr, Kurt Pehlemann, Alfred Beierie, Friedrich Kühne, Georg John and Friedrich Kayssler. They played respectively: King Frederick the Great, Hans Karl von Winterfeldt, Wolf Friedrich von Retzow, Schwerin, Hans Joachim von Zieten, and Karl Wilhelm von Finckenstein.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/4. Photo: Ufa. Otto Gebühr as King Frederick the Great (Friedrich II) of Prussia and Renate Müller as Blanche Lindeneck in the German early sound film Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/5. Photo: UFA. Publicity still of Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930) with Otto Gebühr and Paul Biensfeldt as Johann Joachim Quantz.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/6. Photo: Ufa. Otto Gebühr as Frederick the Great in Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (Gustav Ucicky, 1930), also with Margarete Schön and Olga Engl. This picture is a literal citation of the famous painting Flötenkonzert Friedrichs des Großen in Sanssouci (1850-1852) by Adolph (von) Menzel, now at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

Stink bombs and itch powder in the cinema

In Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci/The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930), film audiences heard the voice of Otto Gebühr for the first time. They were so excited by his voice that often the public stood up and applauded as he spoke his first sentence.

Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci describes the developments that led to the Seven Years' War. In 1756, an official masquerade ball was celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister Heinrich von Brühl. Unofficially, however, talks are taking place with the ambassadors of Austria, Russia and France, who are aiming for a plot against the Prussian King Frederick. The Prussian envoy Major von Lindeneck (Hans Rehmann) notices this incident and manages to bring a copy of the concluded secret treaty to the Prussian king (Otto Gebühr).

The king consults his generals, who advise him to be careful. Frederick is stunned by this reaction and develops a counter-plan. For this, he sends Lindeneck again to Dresden. Lindeneck is not very enthusiastic about this assignment because he thinks he doubts his wife Blanche's (Renate Müller) marital fidelity, and that he does not want to leave her alone. However, royal loyalty is more important to him and he carries out all orders of the Prussian king.

When the ambassadors of Austria, Russia and France asked for an audience with Friedrich, he gave, to gain time, a flute concert, which is modelled in its lineup the famous picture of Adolph von Menzel. In the course of this concert, he receives the dispatch from Vienna, which completely reveals the plot. He ends the concert and lets the envoy give the declaration of war. He goes outside and announces that he has just given them the marching orders for the regiments. The Seven Years War begins.

Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci provoked fierce protests, as one day before the premiere the anti-war film All Quite on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930) was banned in Germany. The press criticised that such an anti-war film was banned while Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci was screened, which called for war. Especially in the Berlin workers' districts, there were many protests. During a performance at the Excelsior cinema in Neukölln, protesters threw stink bombs and itch powder into the audience and inked the screen. In the Kristallpalast in Wedding, young workers destroyed the windows of the cinema. Workers in the same district tried to cut the electric cables to the Metro Theatre but were stopped by the police. The newspaper Vorwärts sympathised with the protests and called for a boycott of the cinemas that screened the film.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/7. Photo: UFA. Publicity still of Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930) with Otto Gebühr and Friedrich Kayssler.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/8. Photo: UFA. Publicity still of Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930) with Walter Janssen and Hans Rehmann.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/9. Photo: UFA. Publicity still of Otto Gebühr in Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 125/10. Photo: UFA. Publicity still of Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci (Gustav von Ucicky, 1930) with Otto Gebühr.


Sanssouci, Potsdam, Berlin, Germany.

Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, Berlin is an ensemble of palaces and garden complexes, which was built under Frederick the Great during the 18th century. It was expanded under Frederick William IV in the 19th century. Frederick the Great wanted to reside there 'sans souci' (= without care) and to follow his personal and artistic interests.


Neues Palais, Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Berlin, Germany.

Twenty years following his creation of Sanssouci, Frederick the Great built the New Palace (Neues Palais) in the western part of the park. This far larger palace was in direct contrast to the relaxed ethos behind Sanssouci, and displayed Frederick's power and strength to the world, in the Baroque style. The design of the New Palace was intended to demonstrate that Prussia's capabilities were undiminished despite its near defeat in the Seven Years' War. Frederick made no secret of his intention, even referring to the new construction as his 'fanfaronade' (= showing off).

Sources: Wikipedia (German and English) and IMDb.

This post was last updated on 16 June 2024.

Die Mühle von Sanssouci (1926)

Otto Gebühr played again King Friedrich II (Frederick the Great) in the German silent film Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926). The film was released by the German subsidiary of the American company Fox Film. Die Mühle von Sanssouci is part of the popular cycle of Prussian films, and alludes to the Historic Mill of Sanssouci constructed in the 18th century.


German postcard by Ross Verlag. Photo: Fox. Otto Gebühr as King Frederick the Great in the German silent film Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 51/2. Photo: Fox. Publicity still for Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926) with Otto Gebühr and Olga Tschechowa as Barberina.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 51/3. Photo: Fox. Publicity still for Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926) with Otto Gebühr and Olga Tschechowa as Barberina.

The legend of a loudly rattling mill

Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926) tells of an episode from the life of the Prussian King Frederick II, (Otto Gebühr) beyond the usual bouts of battle and court ceremonies. The year is 1750. After the end of the Silesian Wars, Friedrich returns exhausted to Sanssouci and wants to recover from the turbulent war events.

But the mill of miller Casper (Jacob Tiedtke), once the noblest and most expensive in the world, rattles so loud that his majesty feels his need to rest massively disturbed. Not even a new directive of the monarch changes the situation because Casper is more than stubborn. He refers to the King's decree that before the law in Prussia, all people are equal: the citizen as the nobleman, the beggar as the king.

Soon, the dispute escalates, and Casper decides to even bring about a court verdict on this matter. Friedrich knows that he can only lose it in front of Justitia in view of the equality rule he has set up. But finally, the two fighting roosters decide to find an out-of-court solution that will allow for reconciliation.

In the various subplot lines, his majesty can promote the love of two couples, including two of his soldiers (Lieutenant von Bärenfels - Georg Alexander - and Corporal Jobst - Wilhelm Dieterle), exchange ideas with the great French writer Voltaire (Karl Götz), and finally in his own, to push forward matters in his relationship with the dancer Barberina (Olga Tschechowa).

Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci was shot in November-December 1925 at the Staaken studios in Berlin and had its premiere on 1 February 1926 at the Berlin cinema Kino am Zoo. While Siegfried Philippi was the director, Friedrich Zelnik had the supervision.  Art direction was by Andrej Andrejew and Gustav A. Knauer.

The Austrian Paimann’s Filmlisten summarised: "The mostly historical plot is interesting and not too lengthy, with many grazing lights, the direction tight, the presentation consistently good, excellent Otto Gebühr as Frederick the Great. Presentation and photography are also very good."


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 51/4. Photo: Fox. Publicity still for Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926) with Otto Gebühr and Jacob Tiedtke as miller Casper.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 51/5. Photo: Fox. Publicity still for Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926) with Otto Gebühr.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 51/6. Photo: Fox. Publicity still for Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926) with Otto Gebühr, Hanni Weisse as Henriette, and Karl Götz as Voltaire.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 51/9. Photo: Fox. Otto Gebühr as King Frederick the Great in the German silent film Die Mühle von Sanssouci/The Mill of Sanssouci (Friedrich Zelnik, Siegfried Philippi, 1926).

Source: Wikipedia (German and English) and IMDb.