Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover, born Martha Seubert, ( born September 30, 1887 in Madioen, Oost- Java, Dutch East Indies, today Madiun, East Java, Indonesia, † January 23, 1980 in Green Forest Geiselgasteig, Munich, Bavaria ) was a German stage and film actress.
Life
The daughter of a forest officer in the Dutch service was educated in the UK, France and Switzerland. It was not until the age of ten she came to Germany to visit the school in Tübingen. Later she went to Weimar. Her birth name was Martha Seubert. Other names like Marie, Antonia, Victory Linde and Lilitt sprang from their imagination. In 1913 she married actor Fritz Daghofer and walked out of his last name from her stage name Dagover. 1914 was born their daughter Eva. Through her husband she came in contact with the film and had her first film appearance in 1913. Seven years later they divorced Daghofer again.
Using her stage name she joined in 1919 in two films of Fritz Lang on. By Robert Wiene she was engaged for the lead female role in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Then she turned to Fritz Lang, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and others. Artistically sophisticated in silent films that shaped her image as a " gentlewoman " In 1926 she married the producer Georg Witt.
Since Lil Dagover advanced addition to the film career in Berlin also a respected stage actress, meant the change from silent films to talkies for the star of the 1920s, not their careers, as for so many silent film stars. She played at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater or at the Salzburg Festival.
Even during the time of National Socialism was a celebrated Dagover UFA star, who was in the years 1933 to 1944 a total of 23 rolls of the best known and most popular screen cast of the German film this time. Although the Nazis they courted, they did not produce themselves politically. 1937 her the title of State actress was awarded, and in 1944 she received for her work in the troops, and their appearances in front theaters the War Merit Cross. Even after the Second World War, she appeared in numerous films and has won awards, so in 1954 with the German Film Award for Best Actress in HRH. In 1962, she received the Film Award for many years of excellent work in the German film. Was a great success for Dagover 1961, the Edgar Wallace film The Strange Countess, in which she played the title role. Lil Dagover stepped up to the end of the 1970s in films.
Lil Dagover -Witt died in 1980 at her home in the Bavaria Film Studios in Grünwald. She and her husband Georg rest side by side in the forest cemetery Grünwald near Munich. In Grunwald, a street was named after her ( Lil- Dagover ring), in Berlin- Heller village there is a Lil- Dagover Alley.
Filmography (selection)
Honors
1995 was named in Berlin- Hellersdorf Lil- Dagover Alley after her.
Writings
- I was the lady. Snow Kluth, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7951-0535-8.