Lyda Salmonova

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Lyda Salmonova on a photograph by Rudolf Dührkoop

Lyda Salmonova (born July 14, 1889 in Prague , † November 18, 1968 there ) was a Czech actress .

Life

After training in dance in Prague, she received training at the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin . In 1910 she made her stage debut there. In 1915 she appeared in August Strindberg's Dance of Death in Norway and Sweden . Until 1918 she was part of the ensemble of the German Theater directed by Max Reinhardt .

From 1913 to 1923 she was involved as an actress in almost all silent films by Paul Wegener , whose third wife she was and from whom she was divorced in October 1924. Their son Peter Wegener was involved as a physicist in the V2 project in Peenemünde .

After retiring from the cinema in 1923, Salmonova became an acting teacher at the UFA junior school. At the beginning of the 1930s she had her last stage appearances. She founded her own drama school with the Lyda Wegener drama studio. After the Second World War she lived in her hometown of Prague.

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Lyda Salmonova  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Filmwelt-Telegramme , Die Filmwelt, No. 34, Vienna, October 17 or 24, 1924, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Salmonova, Lyda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wegener, Lyda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 18th November 1968
Place of death Prague