Elma Karlowa

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Elma Karlowa ; actually Selma Karolina Karlowac , also known under the name Elma Karlovace or, as in many a film leader , Selma Karlovac (* 12. March 1932 in Zagreb , † 31 December 1994 in Munich ) was a Yugoslav film actress .

Life

In Yugoslavia, Karlowa first played theater before receiving her first film role in 1953. The German post-war film shot more often in Istria on the Adriatic Sea and there she was selected by director Géza von Bolváry for the entertainment flick Once again (1953) for the female lead. So she continued her career in Germany.

Karlowa starred mainly in music films and the shallow comedies of the time in the 1950s and 1960s. Her dark brown eyes and her characteristic southern accent predestined her for the role of a lover or seductress. But she also acted in the operetta film Der Bettelstudent (1956) and in the Emmerich Kálmán biography film The Czardas King (1958).

With the end of the post-war film, she hardly received any role offers; she then also had to struggle with weight problems and psychological difficulties. After a few forays into soft porn , she was given another serious role as Frau Kargus in Fassbinder's Angst Eat Seele auf (1974). Now she was back on television and had some appearances in the Tatort series. In 1986 she played a cleaning lady in the well-known journalist multi-part series Kir Royal . She died of complications from diabetes . Her final resting place is in Sydney .

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Der Spiegel of January 9, 1995 , accessed April 5, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Karlowa, Elma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karlowac, ​​Selma-Karolina (maiden name); Karlovace, Elma; Karlovac, Selma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav film actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Zagreb
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1994
Place of death Munich