Gertrud Arnold

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Gertrud Arnold, 1904. Photo by Zander & Labisch .

Gertrud Arnold (born March 3, 1873 in Stolp , † January 11, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

After graduating from high school at the age of 20, she trained as an actress in Berlin and began her first engagement in Cottbus in 1895 . Her next stage stops were theaters in Jena (1897), Halle (1897 to 1899) and Hanover .

In 1901 she reached Berlin, where she appeared at the Schillertheater and the Theater am Nollendorfplatz , among others . Her roles included Iphigenie in Iphigenie on Tauris , Lady Milford in Kabale und Liebe and Anna Mahr in Gerhart Hauptmanns Einsame Menschen .

Since 1914 she has occasionally appeared in front of the camera as a silent film actress. She took on her most important film role in 1924 in Fritz Lang's two-part film adaptation of The Nibelungs as Queen Ute .

Arnold was married to screenwriter and director Heinrich Brandt from 1917 .

Filmography

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903, p. 34

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Individual evidence

  1. According to the film's personal dictionary , Filmportal and Eisenberg. According to Mühsam / Jacobsohn's Lexikon des Films (1926), she was born in 1881.
  2. According to Mühsam / Jacobsohns Lexikon des Films (1926), she came to the theater without studying.