Magda Sonja
Magda Sonja , actually Venceslava Vesely (born May 23, 1886 in Hradisko , Austria-Hungary ; † August 15, 1974 in Los Angeles , USA ), was an Austrian actress who was one of the divas of Austrian silent film in the 1920s .
Life
Magda Sonja began her acting career at the age of almost 20 at the Theater an der Wien . Afterwards she worked as a diseuse in various Viennese cabarets . She came to silent film in 1917. As early as 1918, she became the star of the emerging Austrian silent film at Wiener Sascha-Film - as a counterpart to the film star of the Viennese art film , Liane Haid . In those years which were the most productive in Austrian film history with over 100 films a year , she was the most popular actress at Sascha-Film. She played in “The Other I” (1918), “Um ein Weib” (1918) and “Don Juan's Last Adventure” (1918). In the 1920s she played the main roles in “Die Venus” (1922), “The Birth of the Antichrist” (1922), “Drakula halala” (1923) and “Ssanin” (1924) and thus advanced to become the Austrian silent film diva. Then she shot a few films in Germany with her husband, the director Friedrich Fehér . She reached the peak of her career in 1927 with " Mata Hari , the red dancer" and "Maria Stuart". With the rise of talkies , her career quickly waned. In 1933 she emigrated with her husband to England, where she was unable to continue her successes from the silent film era.
Her marriage to Friedrich Fehér had a son, Hans Feher , with whom she followed her husband, who emigrated to the USA in 1936, the following year.
Filmography (selection)
- 1917: For a woman
- 1917: Light and Darkness / The love of a blind man
- 1917: The waning heart
- 1917: A dead man's letter
- 1918: your best role
- 1918: The other me
- 1918: The stronger one
- 1918: The night camp at Mischli-Mischloch
- 1918: Don Juan's last adventure
- 1919: the spider
- 1919: The murderer's soul
- 1920: The wicked nun
- 1921: Venus
- 1922: The birth of the Antichrist
- 1924: Ssanin
- 1926: The gray house
- 1927: The governor's mistress
- 1927: The mistress on the royal throne (Draga Maschin)
- 1927: Mata Hari
- 1927: Maria Stuart
- 1927: Forbidden love
- 1928: Hotel secrets. The adventurer of Biarritz
- 1928: Sensational Trial
- 1930: Když struny lkaji
- 1931: your boy
- 1932: Haunted people
- 1936: Robber's Symphony
literature
- 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. 470.
Web links
- Magda Sonja in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Magda Sonja at filmportal.de
Remarks
- ↑ According to the film's great personal dictionary , this is the place of birth, the filmportal.de writes "Vienna".
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sonja, Magda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vesely, Venceslava (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hradisko , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th August 1974 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , USA |