Olga Limburg

Olga Limburg, 1908.

Olga Limburg (born April 5, 1881 in Düsseldorf , † March 7, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

She began her artistic career in 1901 with an engagement at the Municipal Theater in Poznan . Since 1902 she has played on Berlin theaters, including the stands , the Metropol Theater , the Berlin Lustspielhaus , the Komödie and the Theater am Kurfürstendamm . At first she embodied mainly salon ladies , later she worked in the field of "funny old people".

Olga Limburg has been employed in film since 1915. In the twenties and thirties she was one of the busiest supporting actresses in German cinema and acted as aunts, neighbors, housekeepers and other women next door. Her urn was buried in the St. Anne's churchyard .

Filmography (selection)

• 1915: O these men
• 1918: Cain
• 1919: The yellow death
• 1919: The rolling ball
• 1919: Prince Cuckoo
• 1920: The Avengers
• 1920: decent women
• 1920: The Brescia women's refuge
• 1920: The King of Paris
• 1921: Your brother's wife
• 1921: the darling of women
• 1921: The three aunts
• 1921: The marriage of Princess Demidoff
• 1921: the adventurer
• 1921: The dance about love and happiness
• 1921: your bad reputation
• 1921: Kean
• 1922: The big hit
• 1922: Marie Antoinette
• 1922: When the mask falls / The jumping horse
• 1922: The love nest
• 1922: The woman on the panther
• 1922: The cigarette countess
• 1922: Shameless Souls or A Girl's Fate
• 1922: To the paradise of women
• 1923: Bohème
• 1923: Demon Circus
• 1923: The old law
• 1923: Spring awakening
• 1923: The Race Count's Secret
• 1923: A Queen's Love
• 1923: Judith - women in the swamp
• 1923: The unknown morning
• 1924: Dudu, a human fate
• 1924: Hedda Gabler
• 1924: The little duke
• 1924: Do you remember ...? / The minstrel, 2nd part
• 1925: marriage advertisements
• 1925: The humble and the singer
• 1925: The husband of his wife
• 1925: Zigano, the brigand from Monte Diavolo
• 1925: my wife's dancer
• 1926: Mermaid
• 1926: harassed women
• 1926: give me life
• 1926: The good reputation
• 1926: people among each other
• 1927: The woman in the closet
• 1927: The pants
• 1927: What children keep from their parents
• 1928: Charlott a little crazy
• 1928: Eva in silk
• 1928: Saxophone Susi
• 1928: The man with the tree frog
• 1928: The Apaches of Paris
• 1929: Once upon a time there was a loyal hussar
• 1929: Youth with makeup
• 1929: Section 173 of the St.GB incest / criminal marriages
• 1929: Jenny's stroll through the men
• 1929: The daughter of the regiment
• 1929: Madonna in Purgatory / My heart belongs to you ...
• 1929: The girl with the whip
• 1929: Black Forest girl
• 1929: Men without a job
• 1930: The Warsaw Citadel
• 1930: harried girls
• 1931: Lies on Rügen
• 1931: Elisabeth of Austria
• 1931: The office manager
• 1931: The horror of the garrison
• 1931: Between night and morning
• 1932: a sweet secret
• 1932: My friend the millionaire
• 1932: The cruel friend
• 1933: The song of luck
• 1933: ... and the Puszta lights up
• 1933: The little swindler
• 1933: An invisible man walks through the city
• 1933: A girl whirls around the world
• 1933: Everyone participates
• 1933: Black Forest girl
• 1934: I don't know you and I love you
• 1934: Miss Mrs.
• 1934: roses from the south
• 1934: Black hunter Johanna
• 1935: The Blessed Excellency
• 1935: end of the line
• 1935: Pygmalion
• 1935: Lady Windermeres fan
• 1936: The night with the Kaiser
• 1936: The girl Irene
• 1936: girls' boarding school
• 1936: Donogoo Tonka
• 1936: The beauty spot
• 1936: Queen's girlhood
• 1937: In camera
• 1937: As once in May
• 1937: love goes strange ways
• 1937: land of love
• 1937: Dangerous game
• 1937: Guest in his own home
• 1937: The Coral Princess
• 1937: Madame Bovary
• 1937: The divine Jette
• 1937: An enemy of the people
• 1937: The Vienna model
• 1938: Riddle about Beate
• 1938: goal in the clouds
• 1938: Müller versus Müller
• 1938: Adventure in love
• 1938: Napoleon is to blame for everything
• 1938: Divorce trip
• 1938: I love you
• 1938: The night of the decision
• 1938: Five million are looking for an heir
• 1939: Renate in a quartet
• 1939: The right to love
• 1939: The merciful lie
• 1939: Rosemarie no longer wants to lie
• 1939: Hurray! I am dad!
• 1939: Uncle Fridolin
• 1939: Hello Janine
• 1939: The golden mask
• 1939: The way to Isabel
• 1939: Nanette
• 1940: All love
• 1940: The girl from Saint Coeur
• 1940: My daughter doesn't
• 1940: Heart without a home
• 1940: The merry vagabonds
• 1940: the dark point
• 1940: Clothes make the man
• 1940: The easy girl
• 1941: Family connection
• 1942: Through the eyes of a woman
• 1942: My friend Josefine
• 1942: diesel
• 1942: The discharge
• 1944: a happy house
• 1944: The small court concert
• 1945: finally say yes
• 1945: Gentlemen sons
• 1948: The wine is to blame
• 1949: Don't dream, Annette
• 1950: the stairs
• 1951: It doesn't work without Gisela
• 1951: innocence in a thousand troubles
• 1952: Turtledove in poste restante
• 1953: We'll talk about love later
• 1953: The cousin from Dingsda
• 1954: The witch
• 1954: The Frog King
• 1954: Katrin's seven dresses
• 1955: Lord of life and death
• 1955: The pastor of Kirchfeld
• 1956: A heart beats for Erika
• 1957: The heart of St. Pauli

Web links

• Olga Limburg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Olga Limburg at filmportal.de
• Biography with photo at cyranos.ch

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helga Wendtland, Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929 - 1945. Artist biographies L – Z. Publisher Medium Film Karlheinz Wendtland, Berlin (Lankwitz) 1995, ISBN 3-926945-14-1 , p. 22.