Tatjana Irrah

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

References

1. "Olga Bernhardt = Tatjana Irrah". Sioux City Journal. 1916-11-08. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
2. "Portrait of the actress Tatjana Irrah by Thomas Staedeli". www.cyranos.ch.
3. "Noted Berlin Beauty". The Herald. 24 November 1916. p. 7. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
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 (in German). No. 27. July 1916. p. 32. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
6. Pohle, Robert W. (1977). Sherlock Holmes on the screen : the motion picture adventures of the world's most popular detective. South Brunswick, [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-498-01889-3. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
7. Giesen, Rolf (February 26, 2019). The Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy. McFarland. ISBN 9781476672984 – via Google Books.
8. "Tatjana Irrah". BFI. Archived from the original on April 3, 2022.

External links

• Tatjana Irrah at IMDb
• Tatjana Irrah at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}
• The Amazing Lovers