From Holland with love: twelve postcards with Lien Deyers

Film historian Egbert Barten of the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute brought us newly acquired postcards for EFSP. In yesterday's film special on Riso Amaro/Bitter Rice (1949), some of the postcards were from the collection of the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute. Today we continue with a post on 12 of his recently acquired postcards of Lien Deyers (1910-1965). As a young girl, she was discovered by director Fritz Lang who gave her a part in Spione/Spies (1928). She acted in a stream of late silent and early sound films. After 1935 her star faded rapidly and her life ended in tragedy.


Austrian postcard by Iris Verlag, no. 5693. Photo: Manassé, Wien Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4283/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Atelier Balázs, Berlin. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5274/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Atelier Binder. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 608 (Luxus series). Photo: Atelier Binder. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 700 (Luxus series). Photo: Atelier Binder. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6104/2, 1931-1932. Photo: Ufa. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6363/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Atelier Binder. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6536/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Atelier Binder. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6552/1, 1931-1932. Photo: Ufa. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross-Verlag, no. 6922/2, 1931-1932. Photo: Atelier Binder. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 7913/1, 1932-1933. Photo: Atelier Schmiegelski, Berlin. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.


German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8842/1, 1933-1934. Photo: Atelier Manassé, Wien. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.

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