Else Ehser

Else Ehser (born November 22, 1894 in Leipzig , † March 19, 1968 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

After taking singing and acting lessons with Bruno Decarli and Gertrud Eysoldt , she began her first engagement in Zittau in 1912 . Later she played in Munich and then came to Berlin, where she also appeared as a stage actress as a diseuse in cabarets.

In 1931 she got her first film roles in the two classics M and Girls in Uniform . After that, she was a frequently used supporting or small actress in German film for three decades. Mostly she played neighbors, buyers, employees and colleagues, representative roles such as that of the French Queen Marie Therese in the historical film Liselotte von der Pfalz in 1935 were an exception.

Even after the Second World War, Ehser's main place of activity remained in the Berlin theaters, where she could be seen in particular at the Schlossparktheater , the Schiller Theater and the comedy. She also often worked as a radio play speaker. Here she was mostly one of the main actors, for example in 1962 under the direction of Rudolf Noelte , alongside Will Quadflieg , Hanns Ernst Jäger , René Deltgen and Malte Jaeger in Das Verhör des Lukullus by Bertolt Brecht or in 1958 under the direction of Wolfgang Spier Fire in two old ladies , with Agnes Windeck , Arthur Schröder , Herbert Weißbach and Harry Wüstenhagen .

She was buried in the Dahlem cemetery.

Filmography (selection)

1931: M 1931: girls in uniform 1932: The child's first right 1933: An ideal apartment 1934: Elisabeth and the fool 1934: Hanneles Ascension 1935: Liselotte of the Palatinate 1935: Traumulus 1936: City of Anatol 1936: The ugly duckling 1937: Tango Notturno 1937: The yellow flag 1937: Daphne and the diplomat 1938: Was it the one on the 3rd floor? 1938: New Year's Eve at Alexanderplatz 1938: you and me 1939: Rio headquarters 1939: Premiere of the Butterfly 1939: People from the Varieté 1940: The good seven 1941: The easy girl 1941: Riots in the women's monastery

1942: The golden city 1943: When the young wine blooms 1945: the puppeteer (unfinished) 1947: No place for love 1948: The strange adventures of Mr. Fridolin B. 1949: girl behind bars 1949: You don't play with love 1950: there comes a day 1951: Immortal Beloved 1952: Turtledove in poste restante 1952: heart of the world 1953: Little Red Riding Hood 1954: novel by a gynecologist 1955: novel by a seventeen year old 1956: ... like Lili Marleen once did 1957: The glass tower 1957: Goodbye, Franziska! 1960: I swear and vow 1961: The new gown 1961: Call to passion 1968: The castle

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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

Web links

• Else Ehser in the Internet Movie Database (English)