Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1929)
Thymiane is a beautiful young girl who is not having a storybook life. Her governess, Elizabeth, is thrown out of her home when she is pregnant, only to be later found drowned. That same day, her father already has a new governess named Meta. Meinert, downstairs druggist, takes advance of her and gets Thymiane pregnant. When she refuses to marry, her baby is taken from her and she is put into a strict girls reform school. When Count Osdorff is unable to get the family to take her back, he waits for her to escape. She escapes with a friend and the friend goes with the Count while she goes to see her baby. Thymiane finds that her baby is dead, and the Count has put both girls up at a brothel. When her father dies, Thymiane marries the Count and becomes a Countess, but her past and her hatred of Meta will come back to her.
Books with substantial mentioning of Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
| Hans Helmut Prinzler Licht und Schatten, Die grossen Stumm- und Tonfilme der Weimarer Republik München; Berlin, 2012 |
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| Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.) International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000 |
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Robert K. Klepper Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999 |
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Gerald Koll Pandoras Schätze, Erotikkonzeptionen in den Stummfilmen von G. W. Pabst München, 1998 |
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Gero Gandert (herausgeber) Der Film der Weimarer Republik, 1929 Berlin, 1997 |
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Günther Dahlke Deutsche Spielfilme von dem Anfängen bis 1933, Ein Filmführer Berlin, 1988 |
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