Greta Schröder
Greta Schröder (born June 27, 1892 in Düsseldorf as Margarete Schröder ; † June 8, 1980 in Berlin-Steglitz ) was a German film and theater actress.
Life
She came from a middle-class Rhenish family who gave in to her desire to become an actress. In the 1910s she came to the German Theater in Berlin . Soon afterwards she married the director Ernst Matray . Shortly after the divorce, she married the actor Paul Wegener in October 1924 .
Her first film role was in the silent film The Island of the Blessed (1913), directed by the theater director Max Reinhardt . In 1915 she wrote the screenplay for the first German film adaptation of Das Phantom der Oper , which was released in cinemas under the direction of her husband Ernst Matray.
She had her greatest role in Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror (1922) directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau .
After a role in Die Gefangene des Maharadscha (1953) by Veit Harlan , she played a last small supporting role in Pünktchen und Anton (1953) based on the youth book by Erich Kästner . Greta Schröder died on June 8, 1980 in Berlin-Steglitz.
Filmography
- 1913: The island of the blessed
- 1915: Sugar and Cinnamon (screenplay)
- 1916: The Phantom of the Opera (screenplay)
- 1920: Poor Violetta
- 1920: The Golem as it came into the world
- 1920: The closed chain
- 1921: The Lost Shadow
- 1921: Circus of Life
- 1921: Marizza, known as the Smuggler Madonna
- 1922: Nosferatu - A symphony of horror
- 1922: My love shines
- 1923: brothers
- 1923: Paganini
- 1937: Queen Victoria ( Victoria the Great )
- 1938: Sixty Glorious Years
- 1943: city melody
- 1943: wild bird
- 1945: Kolberg
- 1951: Maria Theresia
- 1953: The Maharaja's Prisoner
- 1953: Pünktchen and Anton
literature
- Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 643 f.
Web links
- Greta Schröder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Letter from Greta Schröder from 1911
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_film20b40/245_schroeder_greta.htm
- ↑ http://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18752
- ↑ https://sites.google.com/site/ellenhutter/
- ↑ http://www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_film20b40/245_schroeder_greta.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Greta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schröder, Margarete (real name); Schröder-Matrey, Greta; Schröder-Wegener, Greta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German silent film and theater actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1980 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Steglitz |