Ada Chekhova
Ada Michajlowna Tschechowa ( Russian Ада Михайловна Чехова ; born September 9, 1916 in Moscow ; † January 28, 1966 in Bremen ) was a German actress and manager of Russian origin.
Life and artistic work
The daughter of Olga Chekhov and Michael Chekhov was a great niece of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov . In 1921 she came to Germany with her famous mother and grew up in Berlin. Due to her mother's job, Ada came into contact with film at an early age. So the desire arose in her to become an actress, mainly focusing on the theater.
She attended the State Drama School in Berlin and also took private lessons with Walter Franck . In April 1935 she took a film aptitude test and was immediately brought in front of the camera for a supporting role in the Austrian production The Pompadour , followed by Der Favorit der Kaiserin (1936). After two more films, she made only one film after the Second World War, Secret of a Marriage (1951). She mainly played at the theater and ran an agency for film and television in the Berlin artists' colony , Laubenheimerstrasse . There she looked after Angelika Meissner and Rex Gildo , for whom she got his first film role in Always when the day begins .
From 1934 Ada Chekhova was married to the cameraman Franz Weihmayr , then to 1950 with the doctor Wilhelm Rust and in her third marriage with the boxer Conny Rux . The daughter Vera Chekhova , born in 1940, comes from the marriage with Rust ; Conny Rux was the father of her son Mischa († 2003).
She died in the plane crash in Bremen . The artist was buried in the family grave in the Gräfelfing cemetery near Munich.
Filmography
- 1935: The Pompadour
- 1936: The Empress' favorite
- 1941: Clarissa
- 1942: Through the eyes of a woman
- 1951: Secret of a Marriage
literature
- Renata Helker / German Theater Museum: The Chekhovs. Paths to modernity. Berlin 2005
Web links
- Ada Tschechowa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Autograph card
- Grave site at the Graefelfing cemetery
- Pictures by Ada Chekhowa In: Virtual History
Individual evidence
- ^ Ada Chekhova in DER SPIEGEL 21/1950 of May 25, 1950
- ↑ Vera Chekhova turns 70 in: Frau im Spiegel from July 13, 2010 on presseportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chekhova, Ada |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chekhova, Ada Michajlowna (full name); Чехова, Ада Михайловна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress and manager of Russian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1966 |
| Place of death | Bremen |