Melitta Klefer

Melitta Klefer , born in Melitta Elfrieda Klefer (born March 30, 1893 in Danzig ; † November 9, 1987 in Berlin ) was a German actress , dancer and singer for the stage, opera / operetta and film.

Live and act

Melitta Klefer has been on the theater stage from a young age. After her training in singing, dance and acting, she was seen at the beginning of her decades-long career in the 1907/08 season at the operetta of the City Theater of Danzig, her home town, and five years later at the City Theater of Poznan, where she also worked in the field of opera / Operetta was used. Shortly afterwards Melitta Klefer arrived in Berlin, where she joined the film in the final phase of the First World War. On the screen, she was a busy supporting actress into the early sound film years. Klefer characters were mostly daughters and young brides, in the course of the sound film she gradually switched to character subjects.

Melitta Klefer remained regularly active in film until the Second World War and was rarely permanently engaged as a freelancer at the theater, for example in the 1938/39 season when she was a member of the theater ensemble in the Admiralspalast. After 1945 she hardly made any films and concentrated more on stage work. In the early 1950s, for example, she belonged to the small ensembles of the Neue Deutsche Bühne der Jugend, the Freilichtbühne Rehberge and the event ring for West Berlin - mostly touring stages without a permanent home. In 1957 she went on tour with the Berlin opera guest performances. Individual songs from her recordings have survived, including “Wenn du Lust” and “O Theophil, o Teophil”. The artist died very old at the age of 94.

Filmography

1918: he or he
1918: Love and Life, 1st part
1919: Laughing hearts
1919: people in chains
1919: The misogynist
1920: Anna Karenina
1920: Rhine Magic
1920: Lepain, the king of criminals, two parts
1921: bandits
1921: In a cool valley
1922: At the well in front of the gate
1922: The false prince
1922: The girl from the Rhine
1923: Happiness only lives in the mountains
1924: Barefooted
1929: The Gypsy Primate
1929: special registration
1930: Ash Wednesday
1933: The fight for the bear
1934: My wife, the shooter queen
1936: Under the Slipper (short film)
1938: Adventure in love
1939: Hello Janine
1939: Bachelor's Paradise
1939: white lilac
1941: Light muse
1942: Front Theater
1954: Mrs. Holle

Individual evidence

↑ Birth certificate No. 1052 of April 5, 1893, Danzig birth register, source: ancestry.com.

literature

Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 837.

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personal data
SURNAME	Klefer, Melitta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Weilsküchler, Melitta (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actress, dancer and singer for stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Danzig
DATE OF DEATH	November 9, 1987
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Birth certificate No. 1052 of April 5, 1893, Danzig birth register, source: ancestry.com.