Sylvia Torf

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Sylvia Torf , née Pier (born May 3, 1889 in Odessa , Russian Empire or January 3, 1892 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † after 1939), was a German film and theater actress .

Life

Sylvia Torf traveled with her parents to various European countries from the age of ten before the family settled in Germany in 1905. After graduating from high school , the native Hungarian studied philosophy , art history and chemistry in Berlin , Giessen , Heidelberg and Berlin. Her marriage to an opera singer was short-lived, then she was discovered for film in 1919. She also appeared on stage in the provinces (such as at the Sopot City Theater), in plays such as Charley's Aunt and Potasch and Perlmutter .

Urban Gad cast them in his 1920 film drama Weltbrand , followed by other supporting roles in numerous silent and a few sound films. She played several times in productions by Prometheus Film and in some central productions by GW Pabst . When Sylvia Torf's film career came to an abrupt end when she came to power in 1933, she was no longer cast as a presumed half-Jewish, as stated in a Reichsfilmkammer note. Nevertheless, the artist stayed in Berlin until 1939. On April 17, 1939, she finally managed to escape from Bremen to Shanghai . Sylvia Torf's trail is lost in China.

Filmography

literature

  • Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film. Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 177 f.
  • Trapp, Frithjof; Mittenzwei, Werner; Rischbieter, Henning; Schneider, Hansjörg: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 / Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists. Part 2, p. 1068. Munich 1999
  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 612.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Trapp: Handbuch des deutschsprachigen Exiltheater 1933-1945, p. 1068
  2. ^ According to Mühsam / Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films. , P. 177
  3. ↑ Exit receipt on ancestry.com
personal data
SURNAME Peat, Sylvia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pier, Silvia (maiden name); Pier Sylvia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-born actress in German film and theater
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1889 or January 3, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa , Russian Empire or Budapest , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH after 1939