Hedwiga Reicher

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Hedwiga Reicher as Columbia at a demonstration for women's suffrage in Washington DC (1913)
Hedwiga Reicher with her father Emanuel Reicher and her brothers (1907)

Hedwiga Reicher (born June 12, 1884 as Hedwig E. Reicher in Oldenburg , † September 2, 1971 in Los Angeles , California , United States ) was a German-born actress .

Life

The daughter of Emanuel Reicher and half-sister of Frank Reicher and Ernst Reicher made her theatrical debut in October 1902 with Zoë in Adolf von Wilbrandt's Der Meister von Palmyra in Hamburg . She stayed in Germany for five years before she accepted an engagement at the German Theater (the Irving Place Theater ) in New York City in 1907. Hedwig Reicher then stayed in the USA. In the summer of 1908 she came to Germany again and played alongside her father in Goethe's Iphigenie at the Esperanto World Congress in Dresden. On September 19, 1929, the artist was naturalized under the slightly changed name Hedwiga Reicher.

Before that, she continued her theatrical work on Broadway , back then as Hedwig Reicher (now in English-language plays). You could see the artist in 1909 in On the Eve , 1909/10 in The Next of Kin , 1911 in The Lady from the Sea and The Thunderbolt , 1912 in June Madness , 1913 in The Stronger , 1915 in When the Young Vine Blooms and 1916 as Cleopatra in Caliban of the Young Sands . Then she moved to Los Angeles.

Hedwiga Reicher has played a number of supporting roles in Hollywood since the mid-1920s, mostly as an immigrant or in maternal roles. At the beginning of 1939 Hedwiga Reicher also worked in the first decidedly anti-Nazi US strip I was a Nazi spy . For this film, she took the pseudonym Celia Sibelius for fear of reprisals by the Nazis against her family in Germany, at least that's what Lya Lys claimed . A few months later, with the beginning of World War II , Hedwiga Reicher ended her film work, but remained in Los Angeles until her death.

Filmography

  • 1925: Ben Ali (A Lover's Oath)
  • 1927: King of Kings (The King of Kings)
  • 1928: The Leopard Lady
  • 1928: The Godless Girl (The Godless Girl)
  • 1929: The Seventh Commandment ( Lucky Star )
  • 1929: Stage 1918 (True Heaven)
  • 1930: Mary Dugan murder trial
  • 1931: Beyond Victory
  • 1931: Sporting Chance
  • 1934: The Dragon Murder Case
  • 1935: You don't kiss spies (rendezvous)
  • 1936: Small town with tradition (I Married a Doctor)
  • 1936: Dracula's Daughter (Dracula's Daughter)
  • 1937: It Could Happen to You
  • 1939: I Was a Nazi Spy (Confessions of a Nazi Spy)
  • 1940: Paul Ehrlich - A Life for Research (Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, pp. 809 f., ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ cf. New theater almanac. Vol. 19, 1908, ZDB -ID 502265-4 .
  3. ↑ Immigration and Naturalization on ancestry.com
  4. ↑ Lya Lys in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved July 10, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Richer, Hedwiga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reicher, Hedwig E. (maiden name); Sibelius, Celia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-born actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1971
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States