Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover , actually Martha Seubert , (born September 30, 1887 in Madiun , Java ; † January 23, 1980 in Grünwald , near Munich ) was a German stage and film actress . She was one of the leading German silent film actresses and was involved in numerous film and television productions between 1916 and 1979.
Life
Lil Dagover was the legitimate daughter of a German forest professional named Seubert who worked in the Dutch East Indies . She was educated in Great Britain , France and Switzerland . After her mother died, she came to Germany when she was ten to live with relatives in Tübingen . She attended the school there. Later she went to Weimar . Her maiden name was Martha. Other first names like Marie, Antonia, Siegelinde and Lilitt sprang from her imagination. In 1913 she married the actor Fritz Daghofer and changed his last name to her stage name "Lil Dagover". In 1914 their daughter Eva was born. She came into contact with the film through her husband. In 1913 she had her first film appearance. Seven years later she divorced Daghofer.
Under her stage name she appeared in two films by Fritz Lang in 1919 . She was chosen by Robert Wiene for the female lead in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari engaged. She then shot with Fritz Lang, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and others in artistically demanding silent films that shaped her image as a “noble lady”. In 1926 she married the producer Georg Witt . Since Lil Dagover, in addition to her film career in Berlin, also advanced to a respected theater actress and thus had language experience, the change from silent film to sound film did not mean a career break for the star of the 1920s, as it did for many other silent film stars. She played at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater or at the Salzburg Festival .
Even during the time of National Socialism , Dagover remained a celebrated UFA star, who was one of the best-known and most popular screen actors in German film from 1933 to 1944 with a total of 23 roles. Although the National Socialists courted her, she did not excel politically. In 1937 she was awarded the title of State Actress , and in 1944 she received the War Merit Cross for her service in the troop support and her appearances in front theaters . Even after the Second World War , she was seen in numerous films and received awards, such as the 1954 Federal Film Prize for the best female supporting role in Royal Highness . In 1962 she received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film. A great success for Dagover in 1961 was the Edgar Wallace film The Strange Countess , in which she played the title role. Lil Dagover appeared in films until the late 1970s.
Lil Dagover-Witt died in 1980 in her house on the Bavaria film site in the Geiselgasteig district of Grünwald . She and her husband Georg rest next to each other in the Grünwald forest cemetery .
Filmography (selection)
- 1913: Snake Dance - Director: Louis Held
- 1916: The Savior - Directed by Christa Christensen
- 1916: The Riddle of the Steel Chamber - Director: Max Mack
- 1918: The mother's song
- 1919: The dancer , two parts
- 1919: The Spiders, 1. Der goldene See - Director: Fritz Lang
- 1919: Harakiri - Director: Fritz Lang
- 1920: The cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Director: Robert Wiene
- 1920: The hunt for death
- 1920: The woman in heaven
- 1920: The Judge of Zalamea - Director: Ludwig Berger
- 1921: The Secret of Bombay
- 1921: The tired death - directed by Fritz Lang
- 1922: Luise Millerin - Director: Carl Froelich
- 1922: Phantom - Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
- 1923: His wife, the stranger
- 1923: The Princess Suwarin
- 1924: Comedy of the Heart - Director: Rochus Gliese
- 1925: On the Chronicle of Grieshuus - Director: Arthur von Gerlach
- 1925: Tartüff - Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
- 1926: The Schellenberg Brothers - Director: Karl Grune
- 1927: The Lady Without a Veil (Hans engelska fru)
- 1928: The Count of Monte Christo - Directed by Henri Fescourt
- 1928: Hungarian Rhapsody
- 1928: The secret courier
- 1929: Schönbrunn's favorite
- 1929: Gimmicks by an Empress - Director: Wladimir Strischewski
- 1930: The White Devil - Director: Alexander Volkov
- 1931: The Congress Dances - Director: Erik Charell
- 1931: Elisabeth of Austria - Director: Adolf Sportwetten
- 1931: The Woman from Monte Carlo - Directed by Michael Curtiz
- 1932: The Dancer from Sanssouci - Director: Friedrich Zelnik
- 1933: Midsummer Night - Director: Willy Reiber
- 1934: I will marry my wife - Director: Johannes Riemann
- 1935: The higher order
- 1935: The Bird Dealer - Director: EW Emo
- 1935: Lady Windermeres Fächer - Director: Heinz Hilpert
- 1936: final chord
- 1936: The girl Irene - Director: Reinhold Schünzel
- 1936: Fridericus - Director: Johannes Meyer
- 1936: August the Strong - Director: Paul Wegener
- 1936: The beauty spot
- 1937: The Kreutzer Sonata - Director: Veit Harlan
- 1938: The stars shine - Director: Hans H. Zerlett
- 1940: Friedrich Schiller - The Triumph of a Genius - Director: Herbert Maisch
- 1940: Bismarck - Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner
- 1942: Small Residence - Director: Hans H. Zerlett
- 1942: Vienna 1910 - Director: EW Emo
- 1944: Music in Salzburg - Director: Herbert Maisch
- 1948: The Sons of Mr. Gaspary - Director: Rolf Meyer
- 1949: You don't play with love - Director: Hans Deppe
- 1950: there comes a day
- 1950: Hunted by the devil
- 1953: Your Royal Highness
- 1953: red roses, red lips, red wine
- 1954: Hubertus Castle
- 1955: I know what I live for
- 1955: The fisherman from Heiligensee
- 1955: roses in autumn
- 1955: The Barrings
- 1956: Crown Prince Rudolf's last love - Director: Rudolf Jugert
- 1957: Under palm trees by the blue sea - Director: Hans Deppe
- 1959: Buddenbrooks - Director: Alfred Weidenmann
- 1961: The Strange Countess - Director: Josef von Báky
- 1967: Settlement Arcadia - Director: Hans-Dieter Schwarze
- 1969: Hotel Royal - Director: Wolfgang Becker
- 1971: Kolibri - Director: Nathan Jariv
- 1973: The Pedestrian - Director: Maximilian Schell
- 1974: Karl May - Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
- 1975: Crime scene: Vodka Bitter Lemon
- 1975: The judge and his executioner - Director: Maximilian Schell
- 1977: Die Standarte - Director: Ottokar Runze
- 1979: Stories from the Vienna Woods - Director: Maximilian Schell
Honors
- 1937: Appointment as state actress
- 1954: Silver film tape (best female supporting role) for Royal Highness
- 1962: Film tape in gold for many years of outstanding work in German film
- 1964: Bambi for services to German film
- 1967: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
The Lil-Dagover-Ring in Grünwald was named after her, as well as the Lil-Dagover-Gasse in Berlin-Hellersdorf in 1995 .
Fonts
Autobiography
- I was the lady. Schneekluth, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7951-0535-8 .
literature
- Friedemann Beyer: The faces of UFA - star portraits of an era . Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-05971-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Lil Dagover in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lil Dagover in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lil Dagover at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
- Max Schreiber: Lil Dagover. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
- Article on correspondence of the Dagover
- Parts of the Dagover estate in the Bensberg archive
- Pictures by Lil Dagover In: Virtual History
- Lil Dagover in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography at the Murnau Foundation ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Note in: Beyer: The faces of the UFA, p. 40.
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Lil Dagover
- ↑ Lil-Dagover-Gasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dagover, Lil |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seubert, Martha |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1887 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Madioen , East Java, Dutch East Indies |
DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1980 |
Place of death | Munich , Bavaria, Germany |