Ellen Richter
Ellen Richter (born July 21, 1891 in Vienna , † September 11, 1969 in Düsseldorf , Germany ; born Käthe Weiß ) was an Austrian actress and film producer .
Life
She was the youngest of five children from Hungarian Jewish citizens in Vienna. After attending primary school, she took acting lessons from Ferdinand Gregori at the Academy for Performing Arts .
It passed with distinction and performed at the Brno City Theater (1908), the Residenzbühne Vienna (1910) and the Künstlerbühne Munich (1911). In 1912 she played at the Nollendorf Theater in Berlin , where she played Orestes in the operetta The Beautiful Helena .
In 1915, Ellen Richter came to silent films and immediately received leading roles. She became a star of German sensational and adventure cinema. In 1920 she founded the Ellen Richter GmbH with her husband Willi Wolff . Wolff also acted as a screenwriter and director of her films, in which she was always the focus. Often their films were set against an exotic backdrop.
The seizure of power by the National Socialists abruptly ended her successful film career. As an actress, she was banned from appearing and was only able to produce two films as a producer with her company Riton (Ellen Richter Tonfilm GmbH). In 1938 she was excluded from the Reichsfilmkammer . In 1935 she had left Germany with her husband and returned to Vienna. The Wolff couple stayed there until Austria was annexed . After that they stayed in Czechoslovakia. On the run from the German Wehrmacht, they finally emigrated from Lisbon to the USA in December 1940. There Ellen Richter and Willi Wolff settled in New York City .
After Wolff's death at the beginning of a joint trip to Europe in April 1947, Richter returned to Berlin, where she re-established her old company, Ellen Richter Film GmbH . In 1952 she also brought Riton-Film GmbH to life in Baden-Baden .
She spent her twilight years in Düsseldorf, where Wolff's nephew lived, and in Zurich, where she had her retirement home. After her own death, Ellen Richter was buried at her husband's side in Nice .
Filmography
- 1915: The law of the mine
- 1915: The Collins Diary
- 1915: Schlemihl
- 1915: The Hermit
- 1916: the skeleton
- 1916: life for life
- 1916: women who sacrifice themselves
- 1916: The Ring of Fate
- 1917: Those who live in the shadows
- 1917: Katharina Karaschkin
- 1917: The Bacchanal of Death
- 1917: For the father's honor
- 1917: the spy
- 1917: ... and do not lead us into temptation
- 1918: Strandgut or The Revenge of the Sea
- 1918: The plane from Goerz
- 1918: The escape of Arno Jessen
- 1918: The guilt of Dr. Adrian Dorczy
- 1919: superstition
- 1919: The daughter of Mehemed
- 1919: De Profundis
- 1919: The Tsarina's toy
- 1920: The red executioner
- 1920: Napoleon and the little laundress (also production)
- 1920: Sicilian blood revenge (also production)
- 1920: The Princess Voronzoff (also production)
- 1920: Brigandines love
- 1920: The last Kolczaks
- 1921: The Adventure of Monte Carlo (three parts)
- 1921: The Riddle of the Sphinx
- 1921: Traveling people
- 1921: the white death
- 1921: 10 million volts
- 1922: Lola Montez, the king's dancer (also production)
- 1923: The woman with the millions - 1. The shot in the Paris Opera
- 1923: Bride of Vengeance
- 1924: The great unknown
- 1925: Shadow of the cosmopolitan city
- 1925: The flight around the globe (two parts)
- 1926: As once in May
- 1926: The great duchess
- 1927: The Juxbaron (production only)
- 1927: The Lady with the Tiger Skin / The Dangers of Carnival
- 1927: The most beautiful legs in Berlin
- 1927: Cheer up, Charly!
- 1927: The great stranger
- 1928: Immorality / The Seven Adventures of Woman Venus
- 1928: morality
- 1929: Police spy 77
- 1929: The woman without nerves
- 1931: The adventurer from Tunis
- 1932: The secret of Johann Orth
- 1932: Van Geldern criminal case
- 1933: Manolescu, the prince of thieves (also production)
- 1934: The Black Whale (production only)
- 1935: Who dares - wins (only production)
Web links
- Ellen Richter at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ellen Richter at filmportal.de
- Biography with photo at cyranos.ch
- Pictures by Ellen Richter In: Virtual History
literature
- Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview . Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 423 f.
Remarks
- ↑ The journalist PEM writes in his "Filmecho" article that she was buried in Zurich.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ellen Richter Film GmbH (Berlin). In: filmportal.de . Deutsches Filminstitut , accessed on October 16, 2016 .
- ↑ In the application for naturalization, her husband Willi Wolff indicated Czechoslovakian citizenship. Declaration of Intention, No. 108777, issued in Los Angeles on June 17, 1941. Source: ancestry.com
- ^ Ellen Richter Film GmbH, Commercial Register Berlin 93 HRB 6456 NZ
- ^ Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorfs international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, p. 1393.
- ^ PEM: Ellen Richter, in: Filmecho / Filmwoche, No. 20, year 1971, p. 11.
- ↑ The great duchess. Illustrated Film Week 1926, accessed on May 9, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Judge, Ellen |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | White, Käthe (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress and film producer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1891 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | 11th September 1969 |
Place of death | Dusseldorf |