Edith Meller
Edith Meller (born September 16, 1897 in Budapest , † October 18, 1953 in Berlin ) was a Hungarian actress .
Life
The daughter of a mill owner grew up in Vienna and attended a theater school there. On the mediation of Leopold Berchtold's wife , she got a role in Bogdan Stimoff in 1916 . For this film she called herself Edith Möller . Numerous other roles followed.
She was regularly a leading actress in productions, including adaptations of the novels by E. Marlitt by National-Film. Georg Jacoby acted several times as a director, whom she married in 1922, but they divorced in the mid-20s. Soon after, her film career came to an end.
As a Jew, she was no longer allowed to pursue any artistic occupation in the Third Reich. According to the Reichsfilmkammer documents , she was considered a so-called fully Jewish woman. In 1936 Edith Meller became the mother of a daughter named Edith in Berlin. During the Second World War, when the deportations of the Jews in Germany were in full swing, Jacoby and his then wife Marika Rökk offered the persecuted shelter in their villa in the Black Forest . A few years earlier, the couple had bought this from the film producer Alfred Zeisler , who had emigrated to America .
Filmography
- 1916: Bogdan Stimoff
- 1916: Benjamin, the shy one
- 1916: The discovery of Germany
- 1917: The wild Ursula
- 1917: The field-gray groschen
- 1917: The Strasbourg antiquarian
- 1918: white gold
- 1918: The Heideprinzchen
- 1919: I will not leave you
- 1920: Va banque
- 1920: The woman without a soul
- 1920: Indian revenge
- 1920: The story of the gray house
- 1921: The man without a name
- 1921: The mountain cat
- 1921: The Secret of Santa Maria
- 1922: A Summer's Lie
- 1922: When the mask falls
- 1922: The tailoring trade
- 1922: The known stranger
- 1922: the adventurer
- 1923: Paradise in the snow
- 1924: Comedians of Life
- 1925: Hussar fever
- 1929: We stick together firmly and faithfully
- 1929: Perjury
literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 247.
Web links
- Edith Meller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Edith Meller at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Lamprecht : German silent films 1915-1916 . Deutsche Kinemathek eV, Berlin 1969, p. 338 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meller, Edith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Möller, Edith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1953 |
| Place of death | Berlin |