Margarete Schlegel

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Margarete Schlegel around 1925 on a photograph by Nicola Perscheid

Margarete Schlegel (born December 31, 1899 in Bromberg , West Prussia , German Empire , (now Poland); † July 15, 1987 in Lewes , Sussex , United Kingdom ) was a German stage and film actress and operetta singer .

Life

Schlegel made his debut in 1917 as a choir member at the Thalia Theater in Berlin. Shortly thereafter, she took on her first speaking role in the comedy Charley's Aunt, partnering with Arnold Rieck . In early 1919 she got an engagement at the Schauspielhaus and later at the Deutsches Theater . Here she was best known in the Wedekind plays The Pandora's Box and Spring Awakening . In addition, she made a name for herself as an operetta singer for the first time.

Margarete Schlegel began her film career in 1919. In the silent film directed by Urban Gad in 1922 she played Hannele in the Gerhart Hauptmann film adaptation of Hanneles Himmelfahrt and in 1923 under EA Dupont the young actor's childhood love in The Old Law . Her best-known role in talkies was in Phil Jutzi's film adaptation of the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz in 1931 , in which she played Franz Biberkopf's second friend Mieze.

Margarete Schlegel married the converted Jew and economist Hermann Levy in 1924 . He was removed from his office in May 1933 and left Germany, his wife, who initially remained in Berlin, professionally sidelined. Since Margarete Schlegel refused to divorce her emigrated husband in order to be allowed to film again, Margarete Levy-Schlegel also left the Reich and moved to London in 1935, where her husband became a professor at the University of London. On July 2, 1938, Schlegel was expelled from the Reichstheaterkammer at home in Berlin .

During the war she took part in German-language anti-Nazi programs, after which she took part in radio operetta programs on the BBC . Margarete Schlegel worked as a singer in England until 1955 before she retired into private life. After her husband's death in January 1949, she remarried and moved to the south coast of England, where she lived as Margarethe Sylva E. Ward in Saltdean, Sussex, until her death in 1987. She died in nearby Lewes in mid-July 1987.

Filmography

  • 1923: The Race Count's Secret
  • 1923: The old law
  • 1925: The shot in the pavilion
  • 1925: miracle of creation
  • 1925: the adventurer
  • 1925: The wives of two bachelors
  • 1926: The bank crash under the linden trees
  • 1927: The holy lie
  • 1927: The convicts
  • 1927: Two under the sky
  • 1928: Single mothers
  • 1929: The moral judge
  • 1929: The Gypsy Primate
  • 1930: The song is over
  • 1931: Berlin - Alexanderplatz
  • 1932: The blue of the sky

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 306.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margarethe Ward (Schlegel) in findmypast.co.uk

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schlegel, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1987
Place of death Lewes , Sussex , United Kingdom