Austrian film, stage and television actress Senta Berger poses for a portrait circa 1970's in Los Angeles, California.
An Original French Postcard of Austrian Born International Silent & Talkies Movie Star Mady Christians. It measures 5.5 inches by 3.5 inchres (14cm x 9cm) and is in excellent condition. This card is an original and dates to the 1930s period. The reverse is unused and is printed in postcard format. Would make a great addition to any collection. Mailing cost to any location in the world will be 1.50p - I mail worldwide. Mady Christians Born January 19, 1892 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria] Died October 28, 1951 in South Norwalk, Connecticut, USA (cerebral hemorrhage) Birth Name Marguerite Maria Christians Height 5' 5" (1.65 m) Mady Christians was born in Vienna, Austria. Destined to be in films in both Germany and the US, she started out as a stage actress but soon found new challenges in the world of cinema. Her first film was at the age of 24 when she appeared in Audrey (1916). She remained in German films for the next 17years before coming to the US and starring in The Only Girl (1933). Mady left the film industry in 1948 after finishing All My Sons (1948). She died on October 28, 1951, in Norwalk, CT, from a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Hungarian postcard by Shinhazi Elet, Budapest, no. 16. Photo: Labori Miklos, Budapest. Handsome Victor Varconi (1891–1976) was a highly successful matinee idol of the Hungarian-Austrian and German silent cinema in the 1910s and early 1920s. Later he was the first Hungarian actor to become a Hollywood star until the sound film completely altered the course of his career. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards Already over 3 million views! Or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 754/2, 1925-1926. Photo: Alex Binder, Berlin. Austrian-born actress Mady Christians (1892-1951) was both a star of the German theatre as of its silent cinema. She also appeared in Austrian, French, British and Hollywood films. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
French postcard by Europe, no. 52. Photo: Aafa. Austrian-born actress Mady Christians (1892-1951) was both a star of the German theatre as of its silent cinema. She also appeared in Austrian, French, British and Hollywood films. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
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German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 775/1, 1925-1926. Photo: Alex Binder. Olaf Fjord (1897 – 1945) was an Austrian film actor, director and producer. He appeared in numerous Austrian, German, French, and Czech silent films. Olaf Fjord was born as Ämilian Maximilian Pouch in Graz, Austria in 1897 (some sources speak of 1895). At the age of three, he went with his parents to Bosnia-Herzegovina and grew up there in a Benedictine monastery. During the First World War, he served in the military for a while. Still, during the war, he settled in Vienna and took singing lessons. He also completed a business apprenticeship. In the winter of 1917-1918, he was discovered by the Danish director Einar Zangenberg for the film. He took the stage name Olaf Fjord and during his film career, he often described himself as Norwegian. He appeared in many silent Austrian films, but also start to direct films, including the short Paulchen, das Millionenbaby/Pauly, the Million Dollar Baby (1920, Olaf Fjord). In 1921 he played Ludwig II of Bavaria King in the biography Ludwig II. (1921, Otto Kreisler) with his sister Gina Puch-Klitsch. In Germany, he appeared in the historical epic Monna Vanna (1922, Richard Eichberg) starring Lee Parry and based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. The success of the film lead to bigger parts in German productions as Der Mann um Mitternacht/The man at Midnight (1924, Holger-Madsen) with Hella Moja, Zwei Menschen (1924, Hanns Schwarz) opposite Agnes Eszterhazy, and Frauen, die nicht lieben dürfen/Women, not allowed to love (1925, Géza von Bolvary). He moved to France for Mon coeur au ralenti/Change of Heart (1928, Marco de Gastyne) starring British actress Annette Benson, Le désir/The Desire (1928, Albert Durec), filmed in Algeria, and La Madone des sleepings/Madonna of the Sleeping Cars (1929, Marco de Gastyne, Maurice Gleize). A huge success was the Czech drama Erotikon/Seduction (1929, Gustav Machatý) with Ita Rina. Not in the least because a film scene showed bare breasts, a trick the director later repeated with the young Hedy Lamarr in his sensational Ekstase/Ecstasy (1933, Gustav Machatý). After the introduction of the sound film, Olaf Fjord appeared both in the German production Kameradschaftsehe/ Companionate marriage (1929, Heinz Schall, Josef Medeotti-Bohác) with Ernö Verebes, and in the Czech language version, Kamarádské manzelství (1930, Josef Medeotti-Bohác). In the following years, his parts became smaller, as in the all-star drama 1914, Die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand/1914: The Last Days Before the War (1931, Richard Oswald) starring Albert Bassermann. Alles um eine Frau/Everything for a Woman (1935, Alfred Abel) with Charlotte Susa and Gustav Diessl, was his final film as an actor. Fjord had found another occupation though as a director and as a producer. First, he produced an early version of the often adapted material Ferien vom Ich/Holiday From Myself (1934, Hans Deppe) with Hermann Speelmans, and Pan (1937, Olaf Fjord, Josef Rovenský) with Christian Kayssler, a film adaptation of a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. Both films, he produced in Nazi Germany. His attempt to produce an adaptation of the novel Gösta Berling failed in 1938. In January 1939 he emigrated to the United States, where he lived for a time. Olaf Fjord died in Vienna, Austria in 1945, at the age of 47. Sources: Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), Wikipedia (German) and IMDb.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5607/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Austrian Nora Gregor (1901-1949) was an operetta diva, stage and film actress. Her most famous screen role was as Christine in Jean Renoir's classic film La Règle du Jeu (1938). For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
East-German postcard by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin, no. 235, 1958. Austrian film and stage actress Angelika Hauff (1922–1983) played the lead in several post-war German and Austrian films. For the East-German DEFA studio, she appeared in three films, including the box office hit Figaros Hochzeit/The Marriage of Figaro (1949). Angelika Hauff was born Alice Paula Marie Suchanek in 1922 in Vienna, Austria. From her fifth year on, she performed as a ballet dancer at the Vienna State Opera. She attended the Max Reinhardt seminar and in 1942 received an engagement at the Salzburg Landestheater. That year she also made her film debut. Her second film was already a starring role in the German drama Zirkus Renz/Circus Renz (Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 1943) co-starring René Deltgen. The circus film was made as a deliberately escapist release at a time when the Second World War was starting to turn against Germany and its allies. The film takes its title from the real Circus Renz. Four more films followed until the end of 1945. After the Second World War the young artist worked in both parts of Germany. She starred opposite heartthrob Rudolf Prack in the Austrian romance Konigin der Landstrasse/The Queen of the Landstrasse (Géza von Cziffra, 1948). In East-Germany she the starred in Figaros Hochzeit/The Marriage of Figaro (Georg Wildhagen, 1949) with Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender and Sabine Peters. It was based on the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, which was itself based on the play The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais. Hauff plays the chambermaid Susanna, around whom the men fight. The film was the first opera film made by DEFA, the state studio of East Germany, and it was a huge success with 5,479,427 tickets sold. That same year, she played again with René Deltgen in a circus film, Tromba/Tromba: The Tiger Man (Helmut Weiss, 1949). It was one of the most popular West German films of the year, suggesting audiences supported a shift away from rubble films. In the German crime film Schwarze Augen/Dark Eyes (Géza von Bolváry, 1951), she co-starred with Cornell Borchers and Will Quadflieg. In Italy, she appeared in the comedy Martin Toccaferro ( Leonardo De Mitri, 1953) starring Peppino De Filippo. She started to play supporting parts as in the Austrian drama Kaiserwalzer/The Emperor Waltz (Franz Antel, 1953), starring Maria Holst, and set set during the era of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Other supporting parts followed in the final Henny Porten films, the East-German crime film Das Fräulein von Scuderi (Eugen York, 1955), and in Mozart/The Life and Loves of Mozart (Karl Hartl, 1955), which explores the mental state of Mozart (played by Oskar Werner) during production of his final opera Die Zauberflöte. In the following decades, Angelika Hauff’s stage work became more important. From 1955 until her death, she was a member of the Vienna Burgtheater. She also travelled through Germany, playing at the Schloßpark-Theater Berlin, the Kammerspielen in Munich, and the popular adventure series Der Kurier der Kaiserin/The Messenger of the Empress (Hermann Leitner, 1970-1971) with Klausjürgen Wüssow. Credited as Angelica Hauff, she returned to the screen as the mother of Olivia Pascal in the French comedy Arrête ton char... bidasse! (Michel Gérard, 1977) with Darry Cowl. In one of her last films she played the mother of Austrian artist Egon Schiele in the international coproduction Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung/Egon Schiele – Excess and Punishment (Herbert Vesely, 1981). It stars Mathieu Carriere as Schiele with Jane Birkin as his artist muse Walburga (Wally) Neuzil and Christine Kaufmann as his wife Edith and Kristina van Eyck as her sister. Wikipedia: “The film is essentially a depiction of obsession and its constituents of sex, alcohol and uncontrolled emotions. Set in Austria during the Great War, Schiele is depicted as the agent of social change leading to destruction of those he loves and ultimately of himself.” Jan Onderwater at IMDb: “Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date.” Angelika Hauff died in Vienna after a short illness in 1983, aged 60. For her work at the Burg-Theater, she was awarded the title of ‘Kammertressin’ a few weeks before her death. Sources: Jan Onderwater (IMDb), Film-Zeit.de, Wikipedia (German and English) and IMDb.
East-German postcard by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin, no. 299, 1958. Austrian film and stage actress Angelika Hauff (1922–1983) played the lead in several post-war German and Austrian films. For the East-German DEFA studio, she appeared in three films, including the box office hit Figaros Hochzeit/The Marriage of Figaro (1949). Angelika Hauff was born Alice Paula Marie Suchanek in 1922 in Vienna, Austria. From her fifth year on, she performed as a ballet dancer at the Vienna State Opera. She attended the Max Reinhardt seminar and in 1942 received an engagement at the Salzburg Landestheater. That year she also made her film debut. Her second film was already a starring role in the German drama Zirkus Renz/Circus Renz (Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 1943) co-starring René Deltgen. The circus film was made as a deliberately escapist release at a time when the Second World War was starting to turn against Germany and its allies. The film takes its title from the real Circus Renz. Four more films followed until the end of 1945. After the Second World War the young artist worked in both parts of Germany. She starred opposite heartthrob Rudolf Prack in the Austrian romance Konigin der Landstrasse/The Queen of the Landstrasse (Géza von Cziffra, 1948). In East-Germany she the starred in Figaros Hochzeit/The Marriage of Figaro (Georg Wildhagen, 1949) with Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender and Sabine Peters. It was based on the opera The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte, which was itself based on the play The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais. Hauff plays the chambermaid Susanna, around whom the men fight. The film was the first opera film made by DEFA, the state studio of East Germany, and it was a huge success with 5,479,427 tickets sold. That same year, she played again with René Deltgen in a circus film, Tromba/Tromba: The Tiger Man (Helmut Weiss, 1949). It was one of the most popular West German films of the year, suggesting audiences supported a shift away from rubble films. In the German crime film Schwarze Augen/Dark Eyes (Géza von Bolváry, 1951), she co-starred with Cornell Borchers and Will Quadflieg. In Italy, she appeared in the comedy Martin Toccaferro ( Leonardo De Mitri, 1953) starring Peppino De Filippo. She started to play supporting parts as in the Austrian drama Kaiserwalzer/The Emperor Waltz (Franz Antel, 1953), starring Maria Holst, and set set during the era of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Other supporting parts followed in the final Henny Porten films, the East-German crime film Das Fräulein von Scuderi (Eugen York, 1955), and in Mozart/The Life and Loves of Mozart (Karl Hartl, 1955), which explores the mental state of Mozart (played by Oskar Werner) during production of his final opera Die Zauberflöte. In the following decades, Angelika Hauff’s stage work became more important. From 1955 until her death, she was a member of the Vienna Burgtheater. She also travelled through Germany, playing at the Schloßpark-Theater Berlin, the Kammerspielen in Munich, and the popular adventure series Der Kurier der Kaiserin/The Messenger of the Empress (Hermann Leitner, 1970-1971) with Klausjürgen Wüssow. Credited as Angelica Hauff, she returned to the screen as the mother of Olivia Pascal in the French comedy Arrête ton char... bidasse! (Michel Gérard, 1977) with Darry Cowl. In one of her last films she played the mother of Austrian artist Egon Schiele in the international coproduction Egon Schiele – Exzess und Bestrafung/Egon Schiele – Excess and Punishment (Herbert Vesely, 1981). It stars Mathieu Carriere as Schiele with Jane Birkin as his artist muse Walburga (Wally) Neuzil and Christine Kaufmann as his wife Edith and Kristina van Eyck as her sister. Wikipedia: “The film is essentially a depiction of obsession and its constituents of sex, alcohol and uncontrolled emotions. Set in Austria during the Great War, Schiele is depicted as the agent of social change leading to destruction of those he loves and ultimately of himself.” Jan Onderwater at IMDb: “Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date.” Angelika Hauff died in Vienna after a short illness in 1983, aged 60. For her work at the Burg-Theater, she was awarded the title of ‘Kammertressin’ a few weeks before her death. Sources: Jan Onderwater (IMDb), Film-Zeit.de, Wikipedia (German and English) and IMDb.
East-German collector's card by Progress, no. 11/18/211, 1955. Austrian actor O.W. Fischer (1915–2004) was one of the most popular and highest-paid actors in German-language film in the 1950s. He played the lead in dozens of light romantic comedies and historical pieces. Unlike countrymen Curd Jürgens, Maria Schell and Romy Schneider, he never made it internationally. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
Polish postcard by Edition Victoria PW, no. 209. Handsome Victor Varconi (1891–1976) was a highly successful matinee idol of the Hungarian-Austrian and German silent cinema in the 1910s and early 1920s. Later he was the first Hungarian actor to become a Hollywood star until the sound film completely altered the course of his career. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards Already over 3 million views! Or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
German postcard by Film-Foto-Verlag, no. A 3494/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Hämmerer / Wien Film. Paula Wessely (1907-2000) reigned as Austria’s most distinguished and beloved stage and screen actress almost from her debut at the Vienna Volkstheater in 1924 until her retirement in 1987; although she was criticized for her appearance in the Nazi-propaganda film Heimkehr (1941). For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards Already over 3 million views! Or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4747/3, 1929-1930. Photo: Ufa. Pretty Austrian actress Jenny Jugo (1904-2001) starred between 1931 and 1942 in eleven smart and charming comedies directed by Erich Engel. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards Already over 3 million views! Or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
German postcard by Ufa, Berlin, no. CK-106. Photo: Eberhardt Schmidt / Ufa. Austrian actress Nadja Tiller (1929) was one of the erotic stars of the European cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Nadja Tiller was born into a theatrical family and started out as a model. She won the Miss Austria contest twice, in 1949 and 1951, which turned out to be her ticket into filmmaking. In 1949, she acted opposite O.W. Fischer in Märchen vom Glück (Arthur de Glahs, 1949). Many roles as a vamp in German and Austrian films followed. In 1954 she worked with director Rolf Thiele in the successful Sie. Until 1970 they would make ten more movies together, including Die Barrings (1955, with Dieter Borsche) and Lulu (1962, with Mario Adorf). Nadja Tiller’s international breakthrough role was that of the high class prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt in Das Mädchen Rosemarie (Rolf Thiele, 1958). The film, based on a scandal, confirmed the assumption of post-war, American audiences that European actresses were somehow more sensuous and erotic than their Hollywood counterparts. With international productions like The Rough and the Smooth (Robert Siodmak, 1959), Du Rififi chez les femmes (Alex Joffé, 1959), An einem Freitag um halb zwölf (Alvin Rakoff, 1961), L'Affaire Nina B. (Robert Siodmak, 1961), La chambre ardente (Julien Duvivier, 1962) and Anima nera (Roberto Rossellini, 1962), Tiller stayed a favourite of the art house public. She would act in more than 70 films. Since the 1970s she works mainly for theater and television. Tiller has been married since 1956 to actor Walter Giller and they were called the 'Traumpaar der Wirtschaftswunder-Ära'. Together they received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. Nadja Tiller’s latest film was the road movie Barfuss (Til Schweiger, 2005). Sources: Stephanie D'heil (Steffi-line.de - German), Filmportal.de, Wikipedia and IMDb.
German postcard by WS-Druck, Wanne-Eickel, no. 287. Photo: Europa / Ringpress / Vogelmann. Austrian actress Maria Perschy (1938-2004) was the sexy leading lady of many European films of the late 1950s before she made a short career in Hollywood in films by John Huston and Howard Hawks. In the 1970s she appeared in Spanish and Italian low-budget horror films and she became a cult figure. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards Already over 3 million views! Or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
German postcard by F.J. Rüdel, Hamburg-Bergedorf. Photo: Gloria. Handsome Austrian film actor Carl Möhner (1921–2005) appeared in over 40 films between 1949 and 1976, including the French gangster classic Du rififi chez les hommes/Rififi (1955).
German postcard by Film-Foto-Verlag, no. G 125, Photo: Bavaria Filmkunst. Heli Finkenzeller in Alarmstufe V/Alarm level V (Alois Johannes Lippl, 1941). German stage and film actress Heli Finkenzeller (1914-1991) had her greatest successes in popular Ufa comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. After the war, she often played mother roles. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards Already over 3 million views! Or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4250/1, 1929-1930. Anny Ondra (1903-1987) was a Polish-Czech-Austrian-German-French singer, film and stage actress. During the 1920s and 1930s she was a popular actress in Czech, Austrian and German comedies, and she was Alfred Hitchcock’s first ‘Blonde’. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards or follow us at Tumblr.
Postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3149/2, 1941-1944. Photo: Tobis. The Austrian actor Willi Forst (1903-1980) was a darling of the German-speaking public. He was also one of the most significant directors, producers, writers and stars of the Wiener Filme, the light Viennese musical comedies of the 1930s. On stage he played in operettas and revues, but also worked with Erwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
German postcard by WS-Druck, Wanne-Eickel, no. F-80. Photo: Klaus Collignon / UFA. British-Austrian actress Mara Lane (1930) was considered one of the most beautiful models in Great Britain during the early 1950s. She appeared in more than 30 English and German language films of the 1950s and early 1960s, but seems completely forgotten now. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards Already over 4 million views! Or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
Austrian postcard by Iris Verlag, no. 611. Sent by mail in 1932. Photo: Sascha. Mary Kid (1901-1988) was a popular actress of the Austrian and German silent cinema. She also played in two early sound films in Italy. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
German postcard by Photochemie, Berlin. K. 1530. Photo Alex Binder, Berlin. Dagny Servaes (1894-1961) was a German-Austrian theater and film actress. She reached her peak in Ernst Lubitsch Das Weib des Pharao/The Pharao's Wife (1921). For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards Already over 3 million views! Or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 7050/3, 1932-1933. Photo: Ufa. The Austrian actor Willi Forst (1903-1980) was a darling of the German-speaking public. He was also one of the most significant directors, producers, writers and stars of the Wiener Filme, the light Viennese musical comedies of the 1930s. On stage he played in operettas and revues, but also worked with Erwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards or follow us at Tumblr or Pinterest.
Dutch postcard. Photo: Ufa. Publicity still for Walzerkrieg/The Battle of the Waltzes (Ludwig Berger, 1933). Hungarian actress, dancer and singer Rose Barsony (1909 - 1977) appeared in 16 films from 1929 to 1938, and in one more in 1957. The soubrette was a popular star of the operettas by Paul Abraham. For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
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Austrian actress Gerda Maurus (1903-1968) was a star of the silent screen. With her protruded cheek bones and her forceful look she bewitched many men, including her director Fritz Lang and Nazi Minister Joseph Goebbels. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 727, 1925-1926. Photo: Atelier Binder, Berlin. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3569/2, 1928-1929. Photo: Fritz Lang Film. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4254/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Ufa. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4874/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Fritz Lang Film. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5463/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Atelier Jacobi, Berlin. Fritz Lang Gerda Maurus was born as Gertrud Maria Pfiel in Breitenfurt, Austria, in 1903. She grew up in Wien (Vienna). In 1918, the only 15 years old Gerda had her first engagement at one of the theatres of Vienna. As a stage actress she worked at the Volkstheater in München (Munich), in Nürnberg (Neurenberg) and from 1926 on at the Deutschen Theater in Berlin. There she was discovered by director Fritz Lang, who choose her for the female leading role of a Russian spy in his next thriller, Spione/Spies (1928). Spione was Lang’s first independent production. The years-ahead-of-its-time plotline involves Russian espionage activity in London. The mastermind is Haghi (Rudolph Klein-Rogge), a supposedly respectable carnival sideshow entertainer. Heading the good guys is Agent 326 (Willy Fritsch), with the help of defecting Russian spy Sonya, played by Gerda Maurus. The film moves swiftly to several potential climaxes, each one more exciting than its predecessor. According to Hal Erickson of AllMovie, “Haghi's ultimate demise is a superbly staged Pirandellian vignette. Anticipating Citizen Kane by a dozen years, director Lang dispenses with all transitional dissolves and fade-outs, flat-cutting territory from one scene to another”. Gerda fascinated him thus that Lang finished his relationship with his partner and wife, Thea von Harbou, who had co-scripted Spione with him. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8667/1, 1933-1934. Photo: Cserepy-Normation-Film / NDLS. Austrian postcard by Iris-Verlag, no. 5718. Photo: Förster / E. Schneider. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8061/1, 1933-1934. Photo: Atelier Binder, Berlin. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8250/1, 1933-1934. Photo: Pan Film. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 8250/2, 1933-1934. Photo: Pan Film. Countdown Before Blast-off For Gerda Maurus her film debut was also her breakthrough. Her next film was the science-fiction film Frau im Mond/Woman in the Moon (1929), again with Willy Fritsch and again directed by Fritz Lang. Frau im Mond is one of the first major films to dwell upon the possibility of space travel. Hal Erickson writes that it is, “like many of its modern-day counterparts, more successful on a special-effects level than it is in terms of character development”. Among the many prescient aspects of the film is its use of a countdown before blast-off and its depiction of the effects of centrifugal force upon the lunar passengers. Willy Ley, later a leading light of the U.S. space program, served as technical adviser. Reportedly, Adolf Hitler was so overwhelmed by Frau im Mond that he used the rocket depicted in the film as the prototype for the dreaded V1 and V2 assault missiles. In Frau im Mond Maurus joined the extra-terrestrial expedition in search of gold on the moon. And again she was a huge success. The arrival of sound did certainly not finish Maurus’ film career. She starred as a film diva in the intricate murder mystery Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier/The Shot in The Talker Studio (Alfred Zeisler, 1930) set in the Ufa film studio in Babelsberg. In Der Weisse Dämon/White Demon (Kurt Gerron, 1932) she featured as a drug-addicted opera star, opposite Hans Albers and Peter Lorre . During the Nazi period, the actress had a close contact with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After Fritz Lang had emigrated in 1933, she reportedly often visited his salon. Her charms did not only turn Goebbels on but also the communist dramatist Friedrich Wolf. In 1937 she married Robert A. Stemmle, who directed her in the film Daphne und der Diplomat/Daphne and the Diplomat (1937). They would have a daughter, Philine, born in 1943. Maurus appeared in more popular films like Der Dschungel ruft/The Call of the Jungle (Harry Piel, 1936), Grenzfeuer/Boundary Fire (Alois Johannes Lippl, 1939) and Die gute Sieben/The Lucky Seven (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1940), but none of these films came near to the great successes of her first films with Fritz Lang. She concentrated on stage work and performed in Berlin, Wien, München and Düsseldorf. After 1945 Maurus played in only two more German pictures: the comedies Die Freunde meiner Frau/My Wife’s Friends (Hans Deppe, 1949) and Die kleine Stadt will schlafen gehen/The Little Town Wants To Sleep (Hans H. König, 1953). Later she appeared in the TV-plays Wir sind noch einmal davongekommen/The Skin of our Teeth (Karl-Heinz Stroux, 1951) and one year later in Vor Sonnenuntergang/Before Sunrise (Karl-Heinz Stroux, 1962). Her last TV appearance was in a supporting part in Das Käthchen von Heilbronn/Cathy of Heibronn (1968), an adaptation of the classic play by Heinrich von Kleist. Gerda Maurus died in 1968 in Düsseldorf, Germany. German postcard by Das Programm von Heute für Film und Theater / Ross Verlag, Berlin. Photo: Böhm-Willott, Berlin. Collection: Miss Mertens. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 5881/1, 1930-1931. Photo: Hegewald Film. German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 612. Photo: Atelier Balázs, Berlin. The great Rudolf Klein-Rogge in the climax scene of Spione (1928). Source: Manferot (YouTube). Launch of the rocket scene from Frau im Mond (1929). Source: Manferot (YouTube). Landing of the rocket scene from Frau im Mond (1929). Source: Manferot (YouTube). Sources: Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Stephanie D'heil (Steffi-line - German), Wikipedia (German), and IMDb.
