- Sister of Henny Porten. Daughter of Franz Porten.
- As a child, Porten and her sister would often appear in school plays and moving picture image collections featuring opera and arias that their father shot.
- Rosa Porten got an acting and singing education by her father and appeared together with her sister at school performances.
- She was married to director Franz Eckstein.
- She retired from the film business in the middle of the 1920s and lived most of the time in Pommern.
- She was the sister of legendary actress Henny Porten, her father Franz Porten - who was also an opera baritone - directed her first movies.
- Rosa Porten's earliest film work goes back to the year 1906 where she appeared in "Meissner Porzellan". In the next years came further "filmed pictures" into being like "Die kleine Baronesse" (1908) and "Im Fasching" (1908).
- She worked as a writer and director for the "Messter-Projektion GmbH". Her first script was "Das Liebesglück der Blinden" (1910) and was Henny Porten's first leading role in a picture.
- Her films have been featured in film festivals like The Fifth International Women and the Silent Screen Conference, Stockholm University, Sweden in June 2008, Il Cinema Ritrovato and UNESCO's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage in 2010 and 2014.
- Film archivists suspect that Porten worked on over 50 films, but most have not survived due to the flammable nature of the films of that period.
- When the Russians marched in in 1945 began a difficult time for her which she described as "it was the hell". Finally she fled from Pommern and came to Munich.
- As a director, Porten's films were notable for featuring story-lines centered on women.
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