Meta Jaeger
Meta Jaeger , also Meta Jäger (born September 15, 1867 in Breslau , † April 25, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German theater and film actress .
Life
Jaeger, the daughter of a merchant, was brought up in Gnadenfrei by the Moravians and received dramatic lessons from Margarete Tondeur in Breslau. She found her first engagement in her hometown at the Lobetheater (1891), where she had little luck because she was mostly used as an extra.
Then she came to the court theater in Altenburg, where things went all the better. There she was the declared darling of the public and the press for two years (1892 and 1893). During her engagement there she also had the opportunity to play a fifteen-year-old boy (King Charles V) in front of Kaiser Wilhelm II in the one-act play “Freshly dared, is half won” at the Hummelshain hunting lodge . She called him his “lovely little colleague” after the performance and wished her to come to Berlin as soon as possible.
This was already fulfilled in the next year, in which she was committed to the Lessing Theater (1894) as the successor to Rosa Retty . She stayed there for ten years.
Her further life is in the dark. In fact, it reappears in 1928, this time in the silent film “Adam and Eve” by Rudolf Biebrach . Several films followed. She died in Berlin in 1940.
Filmography
- 1928: Adam and Eve
- 1934: The English marriage
- 1934: Knight against his will
- 1935: The girl from the Moorhof
- 1935: A row in the Secret Annex
- 1935: Mazurka
- 1936: The tired Theodor
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 467 f.
Web links
- Meta Jaeger at filmportal.de
- Meta Jaeger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meta Jaeger in the German Stage Yearbook 1907.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jaeger, Meta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hunter, meta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1940 |
| Place of death | Berlin |