Ellen Isenta

Ellen Valesca Isenta (born March 19, 1885 in Berlin ; † October 9, 1959 in Berlin-Steglitz ) was a German stage and film actress .

Live and act

The daughter of a Hamburg resident and a Polish woman was born in Berlin and grew up in Hamburg and Vienna . Isenta, who joined the theater at the age of 19, began her acting career initially at less important stages such as the Parisiana Ensemble and the Kleiner Schauspielhaus (both in Vienna). In the following decade, before the outbreak of the First World War , she trundled through the German (Frankfurt / Oder), but above all through the Austro-Hungarian provinces and appeared at theaters such as Reichenberg , Brünn and Czernowitz .

Afterwards, Ellen Isenta finally settled in her native Berlin and initially appeared at small venues such as the theater on Kommandantenstrasse. At the same time (1920/21) Ellen Isenta began to appear regularly in front of the camera. Despite sporadic film activity, however, the theater remained her main field of activity. In the following years she worked on theaters in the capital, such as the Theater in Behrenstrasse, the Metropol Theater and the Theater in the Admiralspalast - stages that also challenged her as a singer. She also went on tour ( e.g. to Amsterdam , Istanbul and Italy ) and played cabaret (e.g. at Fritz Grünbaum's side ) as well as guest performances in the operetta.

With the seizure of power by the National Socialists, her professional career ended abruptly; Whether Ellen Isenta was sidelined for racial reasons or even emigrated cannot currently be determined with any certainty. Shortly after the end of the war in 1945 , however, she can be proven again as an actress in Germany, when Ellen Isenta worked on Berlin's comedy and appeared with a tiny role in a DEFA production. Throughout the 1950s, the last decade of her life, the Berlin-Steglitz-based artist remained without a single permanent engagement and thus largely without employment.

Filmography

• 1911: Serfdom (short film)
• 1918: Autumn magic
• 1921: From the files of a decent woman
• 1922: Divan cats
• 1924: The girl from Montecuculi
• 1925: The humble and the dancer
• 1931: M
• 1947: street acquaintance
• 1953: Dangerous vacation
• 1956: The Mary Duran Trial (TV movie)

literature

• Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 86.
• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 739.

Web links

• Ellen Isenta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ellen Isenta at filmportal.de