Camilla Horn

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Camilla Horn in the 1920s

Camilla Martha Horn (born April 25, 1903 in Frankfurt am Main , † August 14, 1996 in Gilching ) was a German actress .

Life

After a journeyman's examination as a seamstress , the daughter of a railway official initially worked in various professions in order to finance an acting training. She finally completed this in Berlin with Lucie Höflich and also took dance lessons with Rudolf von Laban .

In the following years she was mainly active as an extra on stage and in film. In 1925, Murnau discovered her for the role of Gretchen in his film adaptation of Faust. Faust - a German folk tale became a great international success. Camilla Horn received a contract with United Artists in Hollywood , which resulted in a collaboration with Ernst Lubitsch and John Barrymore , among others . In doing so, however, she was often set to the type of upright naive in the sense of her Gretchen role. In 1929 she returned to Germany and was able to build on her successes there and with productions in Great Britain and France. Her roles were now wider and more varied.

The film His Last Model, completed in 1936, was made in a German-Hungarian joint production . The actors were Camilla Horn, Rudolf Carl , Hilde von Stolz , Otto Tressler , the actor Paul Javor from the State Theater Budapest and the Hungarian baritone Alexander Svéd .

After the war, because of her knowledge of English, she first worked as an interpreter and then again as an actress on stage, in film and occasionally also for television. Horn played in the German-Hungarian co-production "Die Spinnen". Camilla Horn had her last film appearance in 1988 in Peter Schamoni's Königswald Castle , a homage to star actresses of the UFA era, in which Marika Rökk , Marianne Hoppe and Carola Höhn also participated. In 1985 she wrote her memoir In Love with Love .

Her last obligation to play the role of Miss Sophie in the 1992 movie Dinner for One with Bodo Maria , she could no longer fulfill due to illness. A video was made that was dedicated to her.

She was married four times: with the businessman Klaus Geerts, the architect Kurt Kurfis, with Robert Schnyder and with Rudolf Mühlfenzl , the editor-in-chief of Bayerischer Rundfunk . In the 1930s she owned a weekend house in Lübben (Spreewald) am Weinberg, which is still standing today.

Her grave is in the cemetery in Herrsching am Ammersee .

Prices

Filmography

literature

  • Camilla Horn, recorded by Willibald Eser: In love with love. Memories. FA Herbig Verlag Buchhandlung, Munich and Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-7766-1353-X ; Paperback edition: Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-548-22312-5
  • Johannes Kamps: Camilla Horn. From Frankfurt to Hollywood (= cinematograph, no. 17). German Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-88799-066-8

Web links

Commons : Camilla Horn  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1936, His last model. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Camilla Horn at steffi-line.de
  3. ^ Rudolf Mühlfenzl. (Obituary) In: Der Spiegel. 4/2000, January 24, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Camilla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horn, Camilla Martha (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1996
Place of death Gilching , Germany