Christa Tordy

Christa Tordy around 1928 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Christa Tordy (born June 30, 1904 as Anneliese Uhlhorn in Bremen , † April 28, 1945 in Bad Saarow-Pieskow ) was a German silent film actress.

life and work

Anneliese Uhlhorn moved with her parents to Wiesbaden at a young age , where she passed her high school diploma at 17. She then began to study art history, archeology, philosophy and literary history in Berlin , Munich and Breslau . In addition, she also appeared in the student theater and participated in the production of theater pieces with a humorous touch ( Emperor Nero ). Her doctorate in Wroclaw phil.

During a visit by her cousin Mady Christians , who was currently shooting Ludwig Berger's film Ein Waltz Dream (1925) in Berlin , Anneliese Uhlhorn was approached by Berger and cameraman Werner Brandes and persuaded to make test shots. At the end of her studies in the summer of 1926, Uhlhorn finally switched to the camera and, since her debut in Fritz Wendhausen's police film His big case , has made a number of silent films (leading and supporting roles) under the stage name Christa Tordy. Tordy only stayed in the film business for two years, then she married the film star Harry Liedtke and retired into private life.

At the end of April 1945, after a failed suicide attempt, the couple were murdered by marauding Red Army soldiers in both villas after Liedtke had tried to prevent the Soviet soldiers from raping his wife.

Filmography

1926: His big fall
1926: The midshipman
1926: Potsdam, the fate of a residence
1927: Prince Louis Ferdinand
1927: The confession of the field curate
1927: The Sand Countess
1927: The Secret of Geneva
1928: Cupid on skis

Web links

Christa Tordy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Detailed biography of Tordy (with picture, lower half of the website)

Individual evidence

↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 68.

personal data
SURNAME	Tordy, Christa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Uhlhorn, Anneliese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actress
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen
DATE OF DEATH	April 28, 1945
Place of death	Bad Saarow-Pieskow

[1] Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 68.