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- Died
- Birth nameKurt Schöltzel-Stark
- Curt A. Stark was born on February 2, 1880 in Springe, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was a director and actor, known for The Dawn of Freedom (1914), Gretchen Wendland (1914) and Ihre Hoheit (1914). He was married to Henny Porten. He died on October 2, 1916 in Transylvania, Romania.
- SpouseHenny Porten(October 10, 1912 - October 2, 1916) (his death)
- Fighting in Transylvania he falls on the 2nd October 1916, just 36 years old.
- When in 1914 the first world war begins, Curt A. Stark is retracted immediately. He is Lieutenant of the reserve in the 333rd infantry regiment and carrier of the iron cross II class.
- He got married with the actress Henny Porten in 1912.
- Beside his work as a director Curt A. Stark also impersonated roles in front of the camera.
- Curt A. Stark already turned out to be a talented marketing strategist at this early period of the cinema who knew how to enthuse the audience with unusual actions. There is an example of such an event on the page of film-zeit.de. For the first night of his newest movie in Cologne he first showed the supporting movie "Henny Portens Reise nach Köln zur Eröffnung des Modernen Theaters" (12). In this supporting movie the audience could see the leading actress Henny Porten working in Berlin and that this is the reason she is not present the first night. Finally she sets off in a hurry, boards a plane in the direction of cologne and after the landing she races to the theater. The supporting movie stopped and an out of breath Henny Porten appears from behind the screen like if she appeared directly from the airport.
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