Lina Lossen

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Lina Lossen (born October 7, 1878 in Dresden , † January 30, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

After her acting training by Wilhelm Schneider in Munich , she made her debut in 1898 at the Stadttheater in Düsseldorf , where she played the "Maiden of Orleans", among other things. Engagements in Karlsruhe (1899–1902), Chemnitz (1902/03), Cologne (1903–1905) and at the Hoftheater Munich (1905–1910) followed.

In 1910 she brought Otto Brahm to the Lessing Theater in Berlin. There she played Anna Mahr in Gerhart Hauptmann's Einsame Menschen and the title character in Ibsen's The Woman from the Sea . Under the artistic direction and direction of Victor Barnowsky , she embodied Solveig in Peer Gynt , the title character in Iphigenie auf Tauris , the lady in August Strindberg's Nach Damascus and in 1915 for the opening of the German Art Theater Klärchen in Egmont .

From 1922 to 1945 she was a member of the State Theater Berlin . Important roles were Hortense in Grabbe's Napoleon or the Hundred Days (1922), the title character in Shaw's Candida (1923), Duchess of Friedland in Wallenstein (1924), Olga in the German premiere of Drei Schwestern (1926, alongside Lucie Höflich and Lucie Mannheim ), Mariamne in Hebbels Herodes und Mariamne (1926), Regentin Egmont (1928) and Mrs. Alving in Gespenster (1928).

After the war, Lossen only gave guest appearances. She began her film career as Solveig in an adaptation of Peer Gynt . Later she stood in front of the camera now and then as a supporting actress , for example as the head of the prison in the Zarah Leander film To New Shores .

Her paternal uncles were the geologist Karl August Lossen and the chemist Wilhelm Lossen .

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SURNAME Lossen, Lina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1959
Place of death Berlin