Ross Verlag, Part 3: The Last Years of Weimar

EFSP brings a tribute to Ross Verlag in weekly parts. The German publishing company produced thousands of star postcards from the late 1910s till the early 1940s. For the third part of this series, we chose 25 postcards of German stars of the early 1930s. Many of these stars of the Weimar cinema had to flee the country when the Nazis started their reign of terror in 1933.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4535/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Ufa.Enrico Benfer and Jenny Jugo.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 122/2. Photo: Schmoll / Nero-Porten-Film. Henny Porten in Skandal um Eva/Scandalous Eva (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1930).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5125/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Ufa. Marlene Dietrich in Der blaue Engel/The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg, 1930). Collection: Marlene Pilaete.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5555/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Freiherr von Gudenberg, Berlin. Max Hansen.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5748/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Paramount. Trude Berliner and Maurice Chevalier. It is unknown for which film this still was made. Probably it was an alternative language version of a Paramount production, produced at the studios in Saint-Maurice, a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6065/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Ondra Lamac Film. Publicity still for Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du/A Cute Girlfriend Like You (Carl Lamac, 1930) with Felix Bressart and Anny Ondra.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 131/3. Photo: Ufa. Still from Der Kongress tanzt/The Congress Dances (1931) with Otto Wallburg and Willy Fritsch.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 143/3, 1931-1932. Photo: Ufa. Publicity still for Ein blonder Traum/Happy Ever After (Paul Martin, 1932) with Willy Fritsch, Lilian Harvey and Willi Forst.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6345/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Heros. Dina Gralla.


German postcard by Ross-Verlag, no. 189/1. Photo: Elite-Cinema. Publicity still for Heimkehr ins Glück/Return to Happiness (Carl Boese, 1933) with Heinz Rühmann.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 195/1. Photo: Ufa. Publicity still for Viktor und Viktoria/Viktor and Viktoria (Reinhold Schünzel, 1933) with Renate Müller and Hermann Thimig.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 709. Photo: Ufa. Publicity still for Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag/Two Hearts Beat as One (Wilhelm Thiele, 1932) with Lilian Harvey and Wolf Albach-Retty. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6116/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Ufa. Oskar Homolka in Im Geheimdienst/In the Employ of the Secret Service (Gustav Ucicky, 1931).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6354/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Ufa. Olly Gebauer and Kurt (Curt) Vespermann in the musical comedy Ronny (Reinhold Schünzel, 1931).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6605/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Ufa. Käthe von Nagy and Hans Albers in Der Sieger/The Winner (Paul Martin and Hans Hinrich, 1932).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6828/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Ufa. Fritz Rasp.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6997/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Ufa. Hertha Thiele.


German postcard. by Ross Verlag, no. 7039/1, 1932-1933. Photo: Ufa. Publicity still for Der weiße Dämon/Dope (Kurt Gerron, 1932) with Hans Albers.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 7357/1, 1932-1933. Photo: Paramount. Betty Amann.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 7394/1, 1932-1933. Photo: Aafa Film. Publicity still for Das blaue vom Himmel/The Blue from the Sky (Victor Janson, 1932) with Margarete Schlegel and Ernst Verebes.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8157/1, 1933-1934. Photo: Walther Jaeger, Berlin. Dolly Haas in Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße/A Girl of the Street (Hans Steinhoff, 1932).


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8490/1, 1933-1934. Photo: Atelier Binder, Berlin. Charlotte Ander.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8581/3, 1933-1934. Photo: Fox (20th Century Fox). Lilian Harvey in Hollywood.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8612/1, 1933-1934. Photo: Ufa / Cine-Allianz. Still from Mein Herz Ruft nach Dir/My Heart Calls You (Carmine Gallone, 1934) with Jan Kiepura.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8638/1, 1933-1934. Photo: Frhr. von Gudenberg / Ufa. Gretl Theimer.

The Ross Verlag Tribute is to be continued. This post was last updated on 7 August 2024.