Anna Führing was a German actress. She is, however, more famous as the model

Model (person)

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 for the Germania stamp of the Reichspost

Reichspost

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Biography

Anna Führing was born in Hamburg

Hamburg

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 on March 6, 1866 as the daughter of the theatre and restaurant owner Carl Führing. In Berlin she received her education in acting. Frequently she represented on stage the figure of Germania

Germania (personification)

Germania is the personification of the German Nation or the Germans as a whole, most commonly associated with the Romantic Era and the Revolutions of 1848, though the figure was later used by Imperial Germany. She is usually shown wielding the "Reichsschwert" . Additionally, she is sometimes shown...

, as for instance at a festival in Düsseldorf in 1891 when emperor Wilhelm II was in attendance. In 1892, when the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm

Theater am Schiffbauerdamm

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 in Berlin

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 was inaugurated, Führing played the role of Iphigenie

Iphigénie

Iphigénie is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by the French playwright Jean Racine. It was first performed in the Orangerie in Versailles on August 18th 1674 as part of the fifth of the royal Divertissements de Versailles of Louis XIV to celebrate the conquest of...

. With the rise of the silent movie

Silent Movie

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s, Führing took on roles in the new medium.

In 1899, she got married to Ferdinand von Strantz, the Director of the Hofoper of Berlin and by 45 years her senior and then carried the title Baronin Anna von Strantz-Führing; the couple had one daughter. Führing died in Berlin on November 2, 1929.

Movies with Anna Führing

• Hausdame aus bester Familie gesucht (1915, as Anna von Strantz-Führing)
• Ein Held des Unterseebootes (1915, as Anna von Strantz-Führing)
• Nacht und Morgen (1916)
• Das schöne Abenteuer (1924)
• Eine kleine Freundin braucht ein jeder Mann (1927)
• Ossi hat die Hosen an (1928, as Baronin Strantz-Führing)

Literature

• Carl Thinius: Damals in St. Pauli - Lust und Freude in der Vorstadt. Verlag Hans Christians, 1975, ISBN 3-7672-0368-5

External links

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Germania Briefmarken