Margot Walter

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Margot Walter , also Margot Walter-Landa (born October 4, 1903 in Potsdam , Germany , † April 1994 in London-Camden , Great Britain ) was a German actress .

Live and act

Born in Potsdam, she received her first permanent engagement in 1923 from the Hamburg City Theater . After a season at the Thalia Theater in the Hanseatic city, Margot Walter went to Berlin in 1925 to fulfill an obligation at the German Artists' Theater (so-called Saltenburg Theaters). Her subject became that of adolescent lovers and soubrettes.

In the following year, Reinhold Schünzel discovered Margot Walter for the film. The up-and-coming artist played mostly carefree, happy flappers in artistically insignificant comedies, romances and swans. These were entertainment materials popular with the audience in the transition phase from silent to sound films, in which she received leading and supporting roles.

When the National Socialists came to power in January 1933, the actress's career suddenly ended. Margot Walter settled in England , where she had already filmed in 1928. She last found employment in front of the camera in 1938 in a British production thanks to the advocacy of British film producer Warwick Ward, who once worked as an actor in Berlin . She died in the spring of 1994 in the Camden district of London.

Margot Walter was married to silent film star Max Landa , 30 years her senior, from 1927 to 1929 .

Another Margot Walter, born in 1924, worked exclusively as a theater actress (e.g. in Ingolstadt in the 1950s).

Filmography (selection)

  • 1926: At home, there’s a reunion!
  • 1927: The grooms of the Babette Bomberling
  • 1927: Always practice faithfulness and honesty
  • 1928: Girls at risk
  • 1928: honeymoon
  • 1928: Lord Bluff ( Ringing the Changes )
  • 1929: Furnished rooms
  • 1929: Do you know that little house on Lake Michigan? ( Znáš onen malý domek u jezera? )
  • 1929: Living goods
  • 1930: the gripper
  • 1930: Bock beer festival
  • 1930: 1000 words of German
  • 1931: The real Jacob
  • 1931: The Red Cat's Secret
  • 1931: Shooting festival in Schilda
  • 1931: The maneuver time is nice
  • 1931: The office manager
  • 1931: One night in the Grand Hotel
  • 1931: At your command, Sergeant
  • 1932: The dancer from Sanssouci
  • 1932: Spies in the Savoy Hotel
  • 1932: The adventure of Thea Roland
  • 1933: Two good comrades
  • 1938: Night Alone

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sources: Wedding announcement and editorial text in Mein Film, No. 65, p. 2; Mein Film, No. 164, p. 17, 2nd column

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. 526.

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personal data
SURNAME Walter, Margot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter-Landa, Margot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 1994
Place of death London Camden , UK