Maria Matray

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Maria Matray around 1929 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Maria Matray , also Maria Solveg and Maria Solveg-Matray (born July 14, 1907 in Niederschönhausen , † October 30, 1993 in Munich ), was a German actress , choreographer and author .

Life

Maria Matray was the youngest of four daughters of the chief engineer and later director at AEG Georg Stern and his wife Lisbeth born. Schmidt. Her sister Käthe Kollwitz was her aunt. Two of her sisters ( Johanna Hofer and Regula Keller) became actresses; Katharina, the third sister, became a dancer and actress (stage name Katta Sterna ).

Matray took ballet lessons and left secondary school in 1921 to devote himself entirely to an artistic career. As Maria Solveg she went on tour as a dancer under the direction of director Ernst Matray and made guest appearances a. a. at the London Palladium. Little by little she also got speaking roles such as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at a performance in Salzburg in 1927. In the same year she married Ernst Matray and went on a tour of America with him. After that she performed mainly on Berlin theaters. She also received several film roles and embodied the cheeky-doll-like girl type popular in the 1920s .

After the National Socialists came to power, she followed her husband into emigration. They reached the USA via France and England in 1934. Maria Matray danced on revue tours and also worked as a director and production assistant for Max Reinhardt . Together with her husband, she was responsible for the choreography of dance performances in numerous film productions. She also wrote drafts for scripts and published her first novel Murder in the Music Hall in 1946 together with co-author Arnold Philips , which was also made into a film.

In 1953, the Matray couple returned to Germany. She arranged George Dandin von Molière and Pariser Leben by Jacques Offenbach , which Ernst Matray staged in 1954 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg . In the following years Maria Matray wrote numerous scripts for film and then especially for television. She mostly worked with Answald Krüger . They also wrote several plays and novels together.

Maria Matray, who had been an American citizen since 1953, obtained German citizenship in 1960 and settled in Munich. In 1962 the marriage with Ernst Matray was divorced. Together with Answald Krüger, she provided ZDF with the books for television films ( Hotel Royal ) and documentaries ( Black Friday ). In the 1970s they devoted themselves to the invention and development of the NDR crime series Sonderdezernat K1 . Here Matray was involved in at least twelve scripts. After Krüger's death in 1977, she wrote less than in the previous two decades, including an episode of the series Der Alte in 1978 , and later also entertainment films.

Matray was buried anonymously in the forest cemetery in Munich, grave field 421. Her written estate is in the archive of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin.

Books

  • 1946: Murder in the Music Hall (with Arnold Philips)
  • 1970: The death of Empress Elisabeth or the deed of the anarchist Lucheni (with Answald Krüger; new editions in 1977 and 1991 under the title Das Assentat )
  • 1973: The Liaison . The novel of a European tragedy (with Answald Krüger; new edition 1976)
  • 1977: The lovers . George Sand and Frédéric Chopin. Roman (with Answald Krüger; new editions 1980 and 1991)
  • 1986: Dreyfus , a French trauma
  • 1993: A game with love . George Sand and Alfred de Musset
  • 1994: The youngest of four sisters . My dance through the century

Plays

  • 1959: paints and varnishes (with Answald Krüger)
  • 1961: The evening party (with Answald Krüger)
  • 1963: The Acrobat (with Answald Krüger)

Filmography

actress

Script or co-script

Awards and honors

  • 1964: DAG television award for The Trial of Carl von O.
  • 1965: DAG television award (2nd prize) for the Harry Domela case
  • 1966: Silver Dove of IX. International Catholic television competition for Bernhard Lichtenberg
  • 1968: DAG television award in silver for The Senator
  • 1971: DAG television award in silver for the Hitler / Ludendorff trial
  • In July 2006 a street in Berlin-Karlshorst in the new Carlsgarten residential area was named after Maria Matray.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Matray Archive inventory overview on the website of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
  2. ^ Maria-Matray-Straße. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Matray, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solveg-Matray, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederschönhausen
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1993
Place of death Munich