Elga Brink

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Elga Brink (1928)

Elga Brink , b. Elisabeth Margarete Frey (born April 2, 1905 in Berlin-Waidmannslust , † October 28, 1985 in Hamburg ) was a German actress .

Life

Elga Brink attended a business school and came to film in the early 1920s. The blonde, slim actress acted as a cheeky girl in numerous silent films. As early as June 1926, after the death of her first husband Dr. Fritz Borchardt widowed for the first time. She was particularly involved in productions by the director Georg Jacoby , whose partner or wife she was for some time. In 1930 she played Goethe's lover Friederike Brion in the film Die Jugendgeliebte . In the course of the 1930s and 1940s it faded more and more into the background.

After the Second World War she briefly tried herself as a stage actress, appeared again in two films and withdrew from the public after 1951. Since then she has lived as Elisabeth Biermann in Hamburg, where she worked as a clerk in a law firm.

Filmography

  • 1922: hunger for life
  • 1923: Paradise in the snow
  • 1923: Between evening and morning
  • 1924: Quo Vadis?
  • 1924: Comedians of Life
  • 1925: Hussar fever
  • 1925: The rooster in the basket
  • 1926: The stupid August of the Romanelli Circus
  • 1926: The ride into the sun
  • 1926: May we be silent?
  • 1926: The marriage inn
  • 1926: The pride of the company / The pearl of the regiment
  • 1927: The hunt for the bride
  • 1927: The woman without a name (2 parts)
  • 1927: Colonial scandal ( love while intoxicated )
  • 1927: The island of forbidden kisses
  • 1927: The Fake
  • 1928: The weekend bride / Chose is not entirely without men
  • 1928: Astray / Desire
  • 1928: The most beautiful woman in Paris
  • 1928: fear (also fear - a woman's weak hour )
  • 1928: The Carnival King
  • 1928: The Physician
  • 1929: Marriage in need
  • 1929: The country without women
  • 1929: Women on the Abyss / Guest performance of love
  • 1929: Dawn
  • 1930: The youth lover
  • 1930: Pension Schöller
  • 1930: Chaste Joseph
  • 1931: By a nose's length
  • 1931: Under the spell of the mountains
  • 1931: Mr. Finance Director
  • 1931: Two Morals
  • 1932: Van Geldern criminal case
  • 1932: Marshal Forward
  • 1932: Night of Temptation
  • 1932: The Feldherrnhügel
  • 1933: The Leuthen Choral
  • 1933: The tunnel
  • 1933: Leap into the abyss
  • 1934: Something is wrong / The marriage fraud
  • 1934: Playing with fire
  • 1934: The daring swimmer
  • 1934: Dr. bluff
  • 1935: It's easy for women
  • 1936: Münchhausen's latest adventure
  • 1936: Uncle Bräsig
  • 1937: Pension Elise Nottebohm
  • 1937: Long distance call with Hamburg
  • 1937: carousel
  • 1937: The key witness
  • 1937: Reunion is a pleasure
  • 1939: homeland
  • 1939: At the last minute
  • 1939: white lilac
  • 1941: Clarissa
  • 1941: Quax, the break pilot
  • 1941: The Swedish nightingale
  • 1942: Through the eyes of a woman
  • 1942: Voice of the Heart
  • 1944: The secret brides
  • 1945: One day
  • 1945: Spring melody
  • 1950: Semmelweis - savior of mothers
  • 1951: The Strange Life (shot 1944)

Web links

literature

  • 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 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 559.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the Hamburg registration office. The wrong years of birth 1895 and 1906 are also occasionally given in the literature. See also: Kay Less: The film's great personal dictionary .
  2. ↑ The IMDb incorrectly states 1986 as the date of death and London as the place of death.
  3. ^ Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 30
  4. ↑ According to Kay Less, Jacoby's first wife was not Elga Brink (as reported by CineGraph), but the Budapest actress Edith Meller (1897–1953), while Elga Brink was only temporarily his partner.
personal data
SURNAME Brink, Elga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frey, Elisabeth Margarete (maiden name); Biermann, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Waidmannslust
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1985
Place of death Hamburg