Tatjana Irrah Explained

Tatjana Irrah (born Olga Bernhardt,^[1] 15 May 1892  - 13 January 1949), also known as Tatjana Irah and Tatjana Yrrah, was a German film and stage actress who appeared in German and American silent films. Her film career began in Germany in 1913.^[2] Around 1916, she moved to the United States due to the film shortage in her home country.^[3]

Her performance in Die Grosstadtluft was reviewed as "the one characterization in the play that was done exceptionally well".^[4] She played a main role in the comedy film Der oder Der (One or the Other).^[5]

In 1920 her first American film was released.

Filmography

• The War Sofa (Das Kriegssofa) (1914)
• The Dancer (Die Tänzerin) (1915)
• Das Unheimliche Zimmer (The Uncanny Room) (1915), as Miss Lyons^[6]
• And You Still Wander Restlessly (Und wandern sollst During ruhelos..) (1915)^[7]
• Ein Blatt Paper (1916)^[8]
• Your Dearest Enemy (Ihr liebster Feind) (1916)
• One or the Other (Der oder der?) (1919)
• The Red Poster (1920), as Marion Diabelli
• Man and Woman (1920), as The Duchess
• Miss 139 (1922), as The squirrel
• Ballettratten (1925), as Prima Ballerina Bellini

External links

• • Tatjana Irrah at the British Film Institute
• The Amazing Lovers

Notes and References

1. News: 1916-11-08. Olga Bernhardt = Tatjana Irrah. 7. Sioux City Journal. 2020-09-12.
2. Web site: Portrait of the actress Tatjana Irrah by Thomas Staedeli. www.cyranos.ch.
3. News: Noted Berlin Beauty . 28 March 2022 . The Herald . 24 November 1916 . 7.
4. "Amusements: Grand Opera House Tonight: Farce in German." Muscatine Journal Via Newspaper Archive. 8 May 1911. p. 4.
5. Die Flora der Filmbranche. . Lichtbild-Bühne . July 1916 . 27 . 32 . 28 March 2022 . German.
6. Book: Pohle . Robert W. . Sherlock Holmes on the screen : the motion picture adventures of the world's most popular detective . 1977 . South Brunswick, [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes . 978-0-498-01889-3 . 41 . 28 March 2022.
7. Book: Giesen, Rolf. The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy. February 26, 2019. McFarland. 9781476672984. Google Books.
8. Web site: Tatjana Irrah. https://web.archive.org/web/20220403025532/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bc5824b3d. dead. April 3, 2022. BFI.