Erna Morena
Erna Morena (born April 24, 1885 in Wörth am Main ; † July 20, 1962 in Munich ; real name: Ernestine Maria Fuchs ) was a German film actress , film producer and screenwriter during the time of silent and the beginnings of talkies .
Life
Born into a middle-class family, Erna Morena went to Munich at the age of 17 to attend the arts and crafts school. She later spent half a year in Paris until she finally moved to Berlin at the end of the first decade and worked there as a nurse .
Presumably she was also taking lessons at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, for whose ensemble Max Reinhardt hired her as an actress in 1910 . In the following year she worked here in small roles. In 1912 she came to film.
She made her film debut in 1913 in Die Sphinx by Eugen Illés for the newly founded film production company Literaria Film by Alfred Duskes , her salary there was 500 marks per month, i.e. around 2,016 euros. In total, she acted in about 120 films. She worked under well-known directors such as Paul Leni , Richard Oswald , Robert Wiene , Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Georg Wilhelm Pabst and played alongside great colleagues such as Conrad Veidt , Emil Jannings , Reinhold Schünzel and Werner Krauss .
She was one of the most unusual stars of the German silent film: dark-haired, tall and with distinctive facial features, she had a star appeal like Greta Garbo later and was mentioned in the same breath as Asta Nielsen and Henny Porten . However, her name is largely forgotten today.
Morena also tried herself as a producer: in 1918 she founded Erna Morena Film GmbH in Berlin , supported by some friends as a partner with whom she a. a. produced the silent films Colomba (1918 with Werner Krauss) and The 999th Night (1919/1920 with Hans Albers ).
From 1915 to 1921 Erna Morena was married to the writer Wilhelm Herzog . The couple had their daughter Eva-Maria Herzog (1915-2007).
Erna Morena played the role of the consistorial councilor's wife in the Nazi propaganda film Jud Süss .
Erna Morena was on the Winthirfriedhof in Munich - Neuhausen buried next to her mother. Not far from there is the grave of her brother, the Brentano researcher Friedrich Fuchs , who was married to Ruth Schaumann .
Filmography
- 1913: The Sphinx
- 1913: wrong ways
- 1913: You should honor your father and mother
- 1913: worm-eaten
- 1913: The hand of fate
- 1913: Difficult hours
- 1914: Into the blind
- 1914: The million dollar collar
- 1914: His brown girl
- 1915: It was a dream
- 1915: The player
- 1915: Mrs. Eva
- 1916: ups and downs
- 1916: The fate of Julia Tobaldi
- 1916: Maria
- 1917: Lulu
- 1917: Great Vera
- 1917: The ring of Giuditta Foscari
- 1918: Colomba
- 1918: The Diary of a Lost Woman
- 1919: nerves
- 1920: Algol - Tragedy of a Power
- 1920: From morning to midnight
- 1920: Manolescu's memoirs
- 1920: Kurfürstendamm
- 1920: Night figures
- 1920: The skull of the pharaoh's daughter
- 1920: The Maharaja's Favorite Wife, Part 3
- 1921: The Indian tomb (2 parts)
- 1921: The walk into the night
- 1921: The Liaisons of Hector Dalmore
- 1921: Lotte Lore
- 1921: The Genoa conspiracy
- 1921: Pickpockets
- 1922: Devil's Symphony
- 1922: The Earl of Essex
- 1922: a new life
- 1922: Fridericus Rex
- 1923: Wilhelm Tell
- 1923: The big industrialist
- 1923: shine against luck
- 1924: The Mount of Fate
- 1924: mother and child
- 1925: marriage swindler
- 1925: Wallenstein
- 1925: Bismarck, 1st part
- 1925: The Iron Bride
- 1926: Bismarck 1862-1898
- 1927: The rolling ball
- 1927: The fight of Donald Westhof
- 1928: slide
- 1929: Somnambul (The Clairvoyant)
- 1929: I live for you
- 1929: sins of youth
- 1929: night club
- 1930: gigolo
- 1930: Ash Wednesday
- 1930: Scapa Flow
- 1931: The Song of Nations
- 1932: One night in paradise
- 1932: The eleven Schill officers
- 1932: The child's first right
- 1933: The one from the Lower Rhine
- 1934: Between two hearts
- 1934: What am I without you?
- 1934: This is how a love ended
- 1934: Farewell waltz
- 1934: Elisabeth and the fool
- 1935: Pygmalion
- 1935: Victoria
- 1936: Sleeping Beauty
- 1938: Between the parents
- 1939: the poor millionaire
- 1939: Carnival
- 1940: Jud Suess
- 1951: Immortal Beloved , after Aquis submersus by Theodor Storm
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 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 542 f.
- Brigitte Bruns, Petra Maier-Schoen (ed.): Erna Morena. For the retrospective at the Munich Film Museum in the Munich City Museum. Belleville-Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-936298-52-1 .
- Jürgen Kasten: Morena, Erna. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 99 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Erna Morena at filmportal.de
- Erna Morena in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures by Erna Morena In: Virtual History
- Biography, films and photo
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Birett : Light plays. The cinema in Germany until 1914. Q-Verlag, Munich 1994, p. XXXV.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Morena, Erna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fuchs, Ernestine Maria (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film actress, producer and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1885 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Woerth am Main |
DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1962 |
Place of death | Munich |