Martha Orlanda

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Martha Orlanda , bourgeois (since 1924) Martha Schulte-Holthausen (* in the 1890s in Marchienne-au-Pont , Belgium ; † unknown, possibly 1945), was a Belgian silent film actress and screenwriter working in Germany .

Live and act

Orlanda, who first attended elementary school and then a secondary school for girls, claims to have auditioned at the Cologne Residenz Theater at the age of 13 in order to perform there. Eventually the girl was hired: for a monthly salary of 75 marks. However, her parents stopped this "experiment" after a year. She went with her mother to Berlin in 1917, where William Kahn discovered her and brought her in front of the camera. Martha Orlanda made her silent film debut with Izza Dombronowska in Der Fall Clemencau , the film adaptation of a literary model by Alexandre Dumas.

Orlanda turned film on film by the end of 1921, and she also wrote the script for twelve of these works. The highly speculative, two-part educational and moral image The Path That Leads to Damnation by Otto Rippert caused a tangible scandal when it was first performed in 1919. Her other silent films were also predominantly in the dramatic or melodramatic field. In 1922 Martha Orlanda ended her short-lived film career and on September 26, 1924, she married the then Upper Government Councilor in the Reich Supply Court, Dr. Theodor Schulte-Holthausen (1889–1945). The lawyer died in the chaos of war in 1945, and Martha Orlanda may also have died.

Filmography

  • 1917: The Clemenceau Case / The Dombronowska Case
  • 1917: When women love and hate (also screenwriter)
  • 1918: Suchomlinow
  • 1918: people who wander through life (also screenwriter)
  • 1918: Storms of Life
  • 1919: The Path That Leads to Damnation, Part 1
  • 1919: who thirst for love (also screenwriter)
  • 1919: The Path That Leads to Damnation, Part 2. Hyenas of lust
  • 1920: prairie blood
  • 1920: The green poster
  • 1920: The great secret (also screenwriter)
  • 1921: Little Dagmar
  • 1922: fratricide

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 134

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personal data
SURNAME Orlanda, Martha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulte-Holthausen, Martha (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian silent film actress
DATE OF BIRTH between 1890 and 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Marchienne-au-Pont , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1945