Ilka Grüning
Ilka Gruening, actually Ilka Henriette Grünzweig ( born September 4, 1876 in Vienna, † November 14, 1964 in Los Angeles ) was an Austrian actress.
Life
Ilka Gruening appeared at age 17 as an apprentice in the Berlin Palace Theatre and immediately had success in the title role of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. This was followed by an engagement at the Schiller Theater in 1894, came to performances at Belle - Alliance Theatre, Lessing Theatre, New Theatre, and in 1896 in Bremen.
Gruening played, among others, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Amalie in the predator or the Queen Anne in Eugène Scribe The glass of water. Soon she was also a renowned silent film actress, mostly as a salon lady or mother roles. Your preferred profession were demanding literary adaptations and historical films. She also led in the Twenties along with Lucie Polite in Berlin her own acting school, Lilli Palmer, Brigitte Horney and 1928 Inge Meysel visited.
After Hitler came to power it was limited to the following years of their teaching career, left Germany in 1938 and emigrated to France in early February 1939 in the United States. In other emigrants colleagues, she took part in several anti -Nazi films here. In the classic film Casablanca, she played on the side of Louis stem the immigrant woman Leuchtag giving her first English language skills to the best in front of the bartender Carl ( Szöke Szakall ).
After the war, Ilka Gruening came back in 1950 with a tour to Europe, where they visited Germany. In 1952 she stood for the Swiss production of The Venus Tivoli was the last time a feature film for the camera. Your retirement years she spent in the United States.