Gritta Ley

Gritta Ley (actually Margarete Schmidt , married Margarete Ittelson ; * 1898 , † 1986 ) was a German actress .

Life

Ley was seen in numerous silent films from the late 1920s . She got her stage name from film. Ley was described by the Berliner Morgenpost in the film Der Teufelsreporter from 1929 as follows: … Gritta Ley is pretty, blond, but stiff… . Her career ended with the start of talkies . Since she was married to the Jewish architect Ittelson, she could probably no longer be artistically active from 1933 onwards. In 1939 she emigrated to the USA via Cuba .

Filmography

1927: The greatest crook of the century
1927: The marriage nest
1927: Alpenglow
1928: where the alpine roses bloom
1928: You are to be the emperor of my soul
1928: The Hannerl von Rolandsbogen
1928: Girls, beware!
1928: Almenrausch and Edelweiss
1928: The young lady from Argentina
1928: Autumn on the Rhine
1928: There is no trace of the perpetrator
1928: The German song
1929: The gentleman from the tax office
1929: The devil reporter
1929: The midnight waltz
1930: If you still have a home
1930: The master carver of Oberammergau
1930: The Grenzjäger
1930: The stain on the Ehr '
1930: Glowing Mountains - Flaming Heart

literature

Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 .

Web links

Portrait of Ley with picture
Gritta Ley in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Gritty Ley. Retrieved August 23, 2013 .
^ Cuban foreigner registration card for Margarete Ittelson (1898-1986) - Jewish Museum Berlin. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
↑ The Devil Reporter. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2013 ; accessed on August 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ [1] (PDF; 4.7 MB), p. 144

personal data
SURNAME	Ley, Gritta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmidt, Margarete (maiden name); Ittelson, Margarete (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actress
DATE OF BIRTH	1898
DATE OF DEATH	1986

[1] Gritty Ley. Retrieved August 23, 2013 .

[2] Cuban foreigner registration card for Margarete Ittelson (1898-1986) - Jewish Museum Berlin. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .

[3] The Devil Reporter. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2013 ; accessed on August 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[4] [1] (PDF; 4.7 MB), p. 144