Maly Delschaft

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Martha Amalia Delschaft (born December 4, 1898 in Hamburg ; † August 20, 1995 in Berlin ; actually Amalie Köster-Delschaft ) was a German actress and has appeared in many feature film roles since around 1920.

Life

" Woman's Crusade ";
with Conrad Veidt , Harry Liedtke , Werner Krauss a . a .; Film poster 1926 by Lipót Sátori in Georg Pollak's studio

The daughter of the plasterer Hermann Friedrich Julius Delschaft and his wife Ida Caroline Christine, née Hillermann, played a boy role in 1907 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in a stage adaptation by Anna Karenina on the mediation of their mother .

After taking acting lessons from Carl Wagner and Franz Kreidemann during the First World War , she made her debut at the Stadttheater Bremen in 1917 . As Luise Miller, she was the leading actress in Kabale und Liebe for the first time in the same year .

Through an engagement in Breslau in 1919, she moved to Berlin in the early 1920s, where she played at various theaters such as the Berlin Theater and came to film. She received her first important silent film role in 1924 alongside Emil Jannings in The Last Man . The production Varieté (1925), where Jannings was again her partner, was just as significant for her breakthrough .

In the second half of the 1920s, she became a silent film star. She played typical Berlin girls, but except in the trend film about § 218 Crusade of Women (1926), she could not attract any special attention. The originally intended role of Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel went to Marlene Dietrich .

In the sound film her roles became smaller and smaller, so that she devoted herself more to theater work. In 1933/34 she appeared at the Komiker's cabaret , from 1934 to 1936 at the Komische Oper , the Volksbühne and the Theater am Nollendorfplatz , then mainly at the Theater in Behrenstraße . During the war she was successful in 1941 as the leading actress in the Schwank The Red Underskirt , with which she also went on tour for the troop support in France.

After 1945 she appeared in 16 DEFA films. In the Benthin family (1950), as a mother living in West Germany, she experiences that her family members are better off in the east, and in Die Sonnenbrucks as well as in Das Beil von Wandsbek she mimed a stubborn National Socialist.

Memorial plaque on the house at Kaiserdamm 89, in Berlin-Westend

Until the Wall was built in 1961, it belonged to the East Berlin Volksbühne . After that, the artist, who lives in West Berlin, was barely given any performance opportunities. In 1970 she was awarded the gold film ribbon for her life's work .

Filmography (selection)

theatre

Awards

1970: Filmband in gold for many years of outstanding work in German film

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personal data
SURNAME Delschaft, Maly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delschaft, Martha Amalia; Köster-Delschaft, Amalie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and has appeared in many feature film roles since around 1920
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1995
Place of death Berlin