1. Mathias Wieman was a German stage-performer, silent-and-sound motion picture actor.
10 Facts About Mathias Wieman
1. 2.
Mathias Wieman started his acting career on the stage in Berlin under the direction of Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater.
3.
At the height of his film career, during the decade of the 1930s, Mathias Wieman acted in such productions as Man Without a Name, L'Atlantide, The Countess of Monte Cristo, Fraulein Hoffmanns Erzahlungen, The Rider on the White Horse, Victoria, Patriots, and Togger.
4.
In 1936 Mathias Wieman produced the Frankenburger Wurfelspiel of the Nazi playwright Eberhard Wolfgang Moller in association with the 1936 Summer Olympics and the inauguration of the Dietrich-Eckart-Buhne, and played the Black Knight.
5.
Mathias Wieman had an international success with his appearance in The Eternal Mask.
6.
Also in 1937, Mathias Wieman was made Staatsschauspieler, an honorary title bestowed by the German government and the highest honour attainable by an actor in Germany.
7.
Mathias Wieman was classed as "persona non grata" by Joseph Goebbels, this greatly reduced his activity.
8.
Two of the films Mathias Wieman starred in were in competition at the Cannes Film Festival: In 1952, No Greater Love; and in 1954, As Long as You're Near Me.
9.
Mathias Wieman made many records of classic stories where he would narrate the story accompanied by orchestral music.
10.
On stage, Mathias Wieman appeared in a number of productions including, Goethe's Faust, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, the most famous play of Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and in Bertolt Brecht's In The Jungle of Cities.