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Rose of the Wilderness

1918 film by Walter Schmidthässler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ19796592 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rose of the Wilderness (German:Die Rose der Wildnis) is a 1918 German silent film directed by Walter Schmidthässler and starring Asta Nielsen and Curt Goetz.

Cast

Curt Goetz

Asta Nielsen as Wanda

Joseph Schröder

Magnus Stifter

References

Bibliography

Lloyd, Ann. Movies of the Silent Years. Orbis, 1984.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rose of the Wilderness” as 1918 film by Walter Schmidthässler. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1918, 1984—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1918, 1918-02-27—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Rose, Wilderness and film can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1918 film by Walter Schmidthässler. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19796592. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918 and 1984.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Rose of the Wilderness”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rose of the Wilderness primary sources, Rose of the Wilderness archive and Rose research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Rose of the Wilderness”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Rose of the Wilderness” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.