Ilka Grüning
Ilka Grüning , wrongly also Ilka Grünning, actually Ilka Henriette Grünzweig (born September 4, 1876 in Vienna , † November 11, 1964 in Los Angeles ) was an Austrian actress .
Life
Ilka Grüning appeared at the age of 17 as an apprentice in the Berlin Residenz Theater and immediately had success in the title role of August Strindberg's Fraulein Julie . This was followed by an engagement at the Schillertheater in 1894, followed by appearances at the Belle Alliance Theater , Lessing Theater , Neue Theater and in 1896 in Bremen .
Grüning played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet , Amalie in The Robbers and Queen Anna in Eugène Scribes The Glass of Water . Soon she was also a popular silent film actress, mostly as a salon lady or in mother roles. Her preferred profession were sophisticated literary adaptations and period films. In addition, she ran her own drama school together with Lucie Höflich in Berlin in the 1920s , which Lilli Palmer , Brigitte Horney and, in 1928, Inge Meysel also attended.
After Hitler came to power , she limited herself to teaching in the following years, left Germany in 1938 for France and emigrated to the USA in early February 1939. With other emigrant colleagues, she worked on several anti-Nazi films. In the classic film Casablanca she played the immigrant Ms. Leuchtag at Ludwig Stössel's side , who gave her first English skills to the bartender Carl ( Szöke Szakall ).
After the war, Ilka Grüning returned to Europe on a tour in 1950, where she also visited Germany. In the winter of 1952/53 she stood in front of the camera for the last time in a feature film for the Swiss production Die Venus vom Tivoli . Subsequently, in 1953, Ilka Grüning returned to the USA, where she spent the last years of her life. She was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica .
Filmography (selection)
- 1912: The art of make-up
- 1918: Peer Gynt
- 1919: Maria Magdalena
- 1919: people
- 1919: Rose Bernd
- 1919: prostitution
- 1919: death sentence
- 1920: Monica Vogelsang
- 1920: The adventurer of Paris
- 1920: Figaro's wedding
- 1920: Catherine the Great
- 1920: world fire
- 1920: The beast in humans
- 1920: Beyond good and evil
- 1921: The Genoa conspiracy
- 1921: The escape from the golden dungeon
- 1921: The heiress of Tordis
- 1921: Lotte Lore
- 1921: The culprit
- 1921: seafaring is necessary!
- 1921: To the son
- 1921: The novel by Christine von Herre
- 1921: The second life
- 1921: Fateful Day
- 1921: Lady Hamilton
- 1921: The big and the small world
- 1922: youth
- 1922: lowlands
- 1922: bigamy
- 1922: The wrong Dimitry
- 1922: Luise Millerin
- 1922: two worlds
- 1922: Phantom
- 1923: Nora
- 1923: Friedrich Schiller
- 1923: The treasure
- 1923: The expulsion
- 1923: Katyusha Maslowa
- 1923: The misanthropist
- 1923: The bat
- 1923: The red rider
- 1923: the creature
- 1924: The Grand Duke's finances
- 1924: Kaddish
- 1924: Mater Dolorosa
- 1924: Debit and credit
- 1924: Haunted people
- 1924: The love letters of an abandoned woman
- 1925: The joyless alley
- 1925: Elegant pack
- 1925: Life's dice game
- 1925: secrets of a soul
- 1926: Hello Caesar!
- 1927: Autumn on the Rhine
- 1927: Dr. Bessel's transformation
- 1927: Family day in the Prellstein house
- 1928: Dyckerpott's heirs
- 1928: A girl and three clowns
- 1929: The red circle
- 1929: Diary of a lost man
- 1929: Melody of the Heart
- 1932: Hasenklein can't help it
- 1941: Underground
- 1941: Dangerousley They Live
- 1942: Kings Row
- 1942: Friendly Enemies
- 1942: Order of sabotage in Berlin ( Desperate Journey )
- 1942: Iceland
- 1942: Casablanca
- 1943: Madame Curie
- 1943: Bomber's Moon
- 1943: This Is the Army
- 1943: The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler
- 1944: Address Unknown
- 1944: An American Romance
- 1945: Murder in the Music Hall
- 1946: Rendezvous 24
- 1946: Temptation
- 1947: Repeat Performance
- 1947: In a tight spot ( Desperate )
- 1948: Letter from an Unknown ( Letter From an Unknown Woman )
- 1948: A Foreign Affair ( A Foreign Affair )
- 1948: Words and Music
- 1948: The player ( The Great Sinner )
- 1949: Captain China ( Captain China )
- 1950: The Ambitious ( Payment on Demand )
- 1950: Convicted ( Convicted )
- 1951: The Fist of Retribution ( Passage West )
- 1953: The Venus of Tivoli (conflict of the heart)
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 362, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- 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. 221 f.
Web links
- Ilka Gruening in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ilka Grüning at exile-archiv
- Ilka Grüning at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903, p. 362
Remarks
- ↑ According to exil-archiv.de 1868, according to IMDb 1878. On this, Kay Less in Das große Personenlexikon des Films : "Ilka Grüning died in November 1964 at the age of 88 and not, as is often stated, at the age of 86 or even 96" . Her date of birth September 4, 1876 is also confirmed according to US tax records and her California death certificate. According to Ludwig Eisenberg's theater dictionary, however, the date of birth is December 4, 1878. It is also written there in Grünning .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Grüning, Ilka |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grünning, Ilka (misspelling); Grünzweig, Ilka Henriette (full name at birth) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th September 1876 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1964 |
Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |