Christina Ehlers

Christina "Christl" Ehlers (born March 10, 1911 in Berlin ; † February 2, 1960 in Reserve , New Mexico ) was a German actress.

Life

Ehlers was born in Berlin as the second daughter of the harpsichordist Alice Ehlers and the sculptor Alfred Ehlers. She played a leading role in the fairy tale film Frau Holle . In 1930 she took part in the film Menschen am Sonntag , a semi-documentary depicting the life of young people in Berlin at the end of the 1920s. As a half-Jewish woman, she left Germany in 1933 after Hitler came to power , first with her father to Mallorca , in 1936 to England, then to her mother in the USA, while her father stayed in England because he was not accepted into the USA due to a lung disease. Alfred Ehlers, unlike his wife, was not Jewish, had fled to Mallorca in 1933 to escape National Socialism , with the ultimately unsuccessful plan to build a safe artists' colony for Jewish artists. He probably died in England in the early 1950s.

Ehlers was married three times:

⚭ December 14, 1935 Rolf Bruno Sklarek (born August 17, 1906 Berlin, † February 29, 1984, Los Angeles ), architect, divorced in 1941 or earlier
⚭ November 5, 1941 Chapman Wentworth (* December 21, 1918 Newton , † December 21, 1993 San Francisco ), divorced in 1950,
⚭ February 7, 1951 Hampden Wentworth (brother of Chapman Wentworth, * 1921 Boston , † February 2, 1960 in New Mexico ), aircraft manufacturer.

In 1960 she was killed in a plane crash.

She left five children:

Peter Douglas Fester Wentworth, born Nov. 4, 1934 in Palma
Francesca Wentworth, * 1948
Christopher Wentworth, * 1949
Straff Wentworth, * 1952
David Wentworth, * 1956

Web links

Christina Ehlers at filmportal.de
Christina Ehlers in the Internet Movie Database (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Ehlers, Christina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ehlers, Christl (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actress
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	February 2, 1960
Place of death	Reserve , New Mexico