Else von Moellendorff

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Else von Moellendorff (1938), filmed by Eva Braun

Else von Moellendorff , also Möllendorf (f) (born December 29, 1912 in Munich , † July 28, 1982 in Lübeck ) was a German actress .

Life

The daughter of the actor and director Kurt von Moellendorff (1885– ??) and his wife Marianne geb. Wachowiak (1878–1959) gained early theater experience as a child. In the first German short sound film, a production of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Girl with the woods , she played the title character in 1925.

After acting lessons she received in 1930 a commitment at the Metropol Theater in Berlin. At Berlin stages, such as the Theater am Nollendorfplatz and the Theater des Westens , she took on leading roles in theater adaptations of fairy tales such as Peterchens Mondfahrt and Little Red Riding Hood . Later she acted in plays like Glaube und Heimat by Karl Schönherr and Hasenklein can't help it by Hans Mahner-Mons.

In the 1930s, the blond-haired actress was slowly able to establish herself in German film. In Napoleon is to blame for everything (1938) as a dancer Madeleine, she disrupted the married life of the Napoleon researcher Lord Arthur Cavershoot, portrayed by Curt Goetz . In I entrust you with my wife (1943) with Heinz Rühmann she played the attractive secretary Lil, because of whom all the complications begin. Else von Moellendorff was also a guest at Hitler's Berghof.

After the end of the war, Moellendorff played theater in Hamburg until 1948, shortly after their wedding . There she married the businessman Horst Wiersbitzky (born April 14, 1910 in Königsberg , East Prussia ; † .....) on September 27, 1947 and lived with him in Hamburg-Blankenese . However, she spent her retirement in Lübeck.

Filmography

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Else von Moellendorff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth 1912 according to Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of the film ; 1913 according to IMDb and film.virtual-history.com; 1915 according to Filmportal.de and 1916 according to GHdA. According to film.virtual-history.com it is mentioned as early as 1932 in: Frank Arnau (Ed.): Universal Filmlexikon . Berlin / London, 1932.
  2. ↑ Place of death according to Kay Less: The film's large personal dictionary . IMDb names Hamburg-Blankenese as the place of death.
  3. ↑ Who Was Who at Hitler's Berghof , accessed July 30, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Moellendorff, Else von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möllendorf, Else von; Möllendorff, Else von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1982
Place of death Lübeck