Vintage original 3.5 x 5.25 in. German postcard depicting the beautiful German-born silent film actress and screenwriter, LOTTE NEUMANN. She is depicted in a publicity shot wearing a shimmering dress with a matching hat and a large strand of pearls while holding an ornate feathered fan. This postcard was inscribed in green ink by Lotte Neumann in, we believe, 1926 (see additional details below). Printed in Germany, this vintage original "country of origin" postcard is unused in very fine- condition with a small light 1.25 in. horizontal scratch in the bottom right corner of the background area and a light 0.75 in. horizontal scratch just to the left of her image in the lower portion of the background area.

Provenance: Approximately 8 years ago, we purchased a collection of two albums of vintage original German postcards from a rare book dealer at an antiquarian book fair in Pasadena, California (see photos). Approximately half of the postcards were signed by the respective personalities and the ones that were dated by the actors are all dated "1926." We were informed by the dealer that these photographs came from a film collector in Germany who acquired the postcards at the time they were issued and then had them signed by the respective actors when he met them in person. We are now pleased to make these vintage original postcards available to other collectors.

Lotte Neumann was born on August 5, 1896 in Berlin, Germany as Charlotte Pötler. She began her film career as a teen in 1912 with "Die Launen des Schicksals" (1912). Lotte Neumann was so well-known that they shot a whole serial of Lotte-Neumann films from 1917, which include Hinter verschlossenen Türen (1917), Die Richterin (1917), Das Schweigen im Walde (1918), Das Spiel mit dem Feuer (1918) and Schatten der Vergangenheit (1919), for which she often was her own producer. She wrote her first script in 1918 called Die Töchter des Herrn Dornberg. In 1920, she acted under the direction of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau in the silent film, Romeo und Julia im Schnee. With the end of the silent era, her film career also drew to a close. She played in Die Liebesfiliale (1931) before she retired from the screen. After the end of her acting career, she wrote many more scripts from the 1930's to the 1950's udner her pen name, C.H. Diller. Lotte Neumann was among others married to screenwriter Walter Wassermann. She died on February 26, 1977 in Gaißach, Bavaria, Germany.