Lo Bergner

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Lo Bergner , also Lo Gottschall-Bergner (born November 6, 1895 in Frankfurt am Main , † after 1928) was a German writer , screenwriter and actress during the silent film era .

Life

Bergner grew up in Frankfurt am Main. She attended the secondary school for girls in Hamburg and Altona and trained in dance and drawing. She initially earned her living with fashion drawings and designs for the arts and crafts . In 1918, she wrote her first novel The B-Side . She began to write film manuscripts, which among others were bought by Lotte-Neumann-Film ( Das Hexlein von Groß-Tornau , 1918) and Astra-Film ( Der Fluch der alten Mühle , 1918). She was discovered as an actress by Friedrich Zelnik , at whose side she was seen in Alfred Halm's film Maximum in 1918 .

In 1920 she married the businessman Herbert Gottschall. In addition to her work as an actress, Bergner was mainly active as an author and journalist. She worked for numerous newspapers, including the time , the Berlin day and the foreign paper . She also wrote plays, including How Peterchen found the miracle flower , Christel's Easter journey and A Soul in Need .

Filmography (selection)

actress
  • 1918: maximum
  • 1918: The heir to Skialdingsholm
  • 1919: Twilight nights
  • 1919: The Terminists Club
  • 1919: The girl shepherd
  • 1919: Wrong Good
  • 1919: Lo's first masked ball
  • 1919: The double rendezvous
  • 1919: The hostile neighbors
  • 1920: Catherine the Great
  • 1920: decay
  • 1920: letters from women
  • 1920: Failed
  • 1922: The cigarette countess
scriptwriter
  • 1917: The victim of Yella Rogesius
  • 1918: The little witch from Groß Tornau
  • 1918: The curse of the old mill
  • 1918: The heir to Skialdingsholm
  • 1919: Wrong Good
  • 1920: The Strangler's Hand (also director)
  • 1920: Failed

literature

  • Bergner, Lo . In: Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, pp. 17–18.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Correspondence with Lo Gottschall-Bergner Berlin 1927 and 1928 ; whether the correspondence with "L. Gottschall-Bergner ”in Neustadt 1947 was about a correspondence with her or her descendants is unclear.
  2. ↑ Lo Gottschall-Bergner at felix-bloch-orben.de
personal data
SURNAME Bergner, Lo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gottschall-Bergner, Lo (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 20th century