Grete Diercks

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Grete Diercks 1912
Grete Diercks 1912

Margarete "Grete" Diercks (born September 1, 1890 in Hamburg , † July 15, 1978 in Lauingen ) was a German actress .

Life

Diercks had already worked as an actress at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, which opened in Hamburg in 1900, as a child. On her 11th birthday she became a member of the ensemble there and was regularly on stage from 1902/03 to 1908/09. Although she had not attended drama school, she remained loyal to the theater as a young woman and, among other things, gained further acting experience at the theater in Riga in 1912. In Riga she also met her future husband, an engineer. She then went to Berlin, where she took on various theater engagements, including roles at the theater in Königgrätzer Strasse from 1917 onwards. Diercks was not only active as a stage actress, but also appeared occasionally as a singer, for example in the title role in the operetta Princess Herzlieb by Eduard Möricke around 1914 .

The cinema did not gain importance in Diercks' artistic career until the end of the First World War , and she took on a number of supporting supporting and second leading roles in some very prominent German productions, including Ernst Lubitsch's Carmen and into the early 1920s Rausch as well as FW Murnau's The Burning Acker and EA Dupont's first film adaptation of the popular high alpine drama Die Geierwally , in which she embodied Afra. In addition, she continued to appear at the theater, for example in 1918 at the Komödienhaus in Menyhért Lengyel's and Lajos Biró's play Die Zarin and in 1921 at the Berlin comedy theater in Angelo Cana's The Werewolf . Her last film was Die Sonne von St. Moritz from 1923. In the same year she married and ended her acting career.

Filmography

  • 1916: The Fever Sonata
  • 1917: Unpunished
  • 1918: Carmen
  • 1918: five minutes late
  • 1918: germinating life
  • 1919: Intoxication
  • 1919: death sentence
  • 1919: forced love in the Free State
  • 1920: The women from Gnadenstein
  • 1921: The Geierwally
  • 1922: The burning field
  • 1922: On the outskirts of the big city
  • 1922: The struggle for self
  • 1922: Pilgrimage of love
  • 1923: And yet luck came
  • 1923: The chain rattles
  • 1923: The sun in St. Moritz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Koehne: The first decade of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg: statistical review of the artistic activity and the personnel situation during the period from September 15, 1900 to May 31, 1910. Conström, Hamburg 1910, p. 114.
  2. ^ Siegfried Jacobsohn : Collected Writings 1900–1926 . Wallstein Verlag, 2005, p. 463.
  3. ^ Carl von Ossietzky , Werner Boldt: Complete Writings: 1927–1928 . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, p. 455.
personal data
SURNAME Diercks, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diercks, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1978
Place of death Lauingen