Maria Bard

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Maria Bard

Maria (Luise) Bard (born July 7, 1900 in Schwerin , † April 8, 1944 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

Maria Bard received an education at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin until 1917 and gave piano lessons from 1918, with which she financed her training as an actress. Her first husband was Wilhelm Graaff and they married on April 10, 1920. Graaff founded the film company Rimax in 1923, which, in addition to commercials for Minimax cone fire extinguishers, also produced the feature film Nju with Maria Bard as a nanny.

In 1924 she made her film debut under the name “Migo Bard”, and in the same year she received an engagement with Otto Falckenberg at the Münchner Kammerspiele . In 1926 she moved to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and also appeared in Vienna at the Theater in der Josefstadt . She celebrated a great success in October 1928 in the play XYZ by the German writer Klabund .

After Max Reinhardt's dismissal in 1933, she moved from the Deutsches Theater to the Prussian State Theater under Gustaf Gründgens . Bard was named state actress . The film of the same name of the Döblin novel Berlin Alexanderplatz from 1931 became her most famous film. She and Heinrich George played the two main roles (Cilly and Franz Biberkopf).

Maria Bard's marriage to Wilhelm Graaff was divorced around 1930. From 1931 to 1940 she was married to the actor Werner Krauss and, from 1940, her third marriage to the actor Hannes Stelzer . She died of suicide in 1944 and was buried in the Caputh forest cemetery.

Filmography

Notes / individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ahnen.pluntke.com., IMDb and Filmportal.de name July 7, 1900 as the date of birth, Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of the film, however, August 7, 1900. Ahnen.pluntke.com name the date of death. and IMDb April 8, 1944, Filmportal.de and Kay Less however January 24, 1944. Less insists that the actress "committed suicide at the end of January and not, as is often stated, in April 1944", but cites no source . Less also mentions Potsdam as the place of death .
  2. ↑ filmography Rimax-Film AG (Berlin) , on filmportal.de, accessed on September 5, 2016
  3. ↑ production company Rimax-Film AG (Berlin), feature film "Nju" Germany in 1924, with Maria Bard as a nanny , on filmportal.de, accessed on September 5, 2016

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SURNAME Bard, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bard, Maria Luise (full name); Bard, Migo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1944
Place of death Berlin