Maly Delschaft

Maly Delschaft ( born December 4, 1898 in Hamburg, † August 20, 1995 in Berlin; actually Amalie Köster Delschaft ) was a German actress and to see since about 1920 in many feature film roles.

Life

The daughter of the plasterer Hermann Friedrich Julius Delschaft and his wife Ida Caroline Christine, nee Hiller man who played the mediation of her mother in 1907 at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in a stage adaptation of Anna Karenina a boy role.

After acting lessons during the time of the 1st World War by Carl Wagner and Franz chalk man she made her debut in 1917 at the Stadttheater in Bremen. As Luise Miller she was here in the same year in Kabale und Liebe first leading lady.

Over exposure to Breslau in 1919, she moved to Berlin in the early 1920s, where he played at various theaters, including the Berlin theater and came to the film. Her first major silent film role, she received in 1924 on the side of Emil Jannings in The Last Laugh. Similarly, significant for their breakthrough was the vaudeville production (1925 ), where again Jannings was her partner for them.

In the second half of the 1920s she became a silent film star. She played typical Berlin girl, could not, other than the tendency of film to § cause no special attention more 218 Crusade of the wife ( 1926). The originally planned for her role of Lola - Lola in The Blue Angel went to Marlene Dietrich.

In the sound film roles were becoming smaller, so that it enhances devoted himself to theater work. 1933/34, she performed at the cabaret comedian, from 1934 to 1936 at the Komische Oper, the Volksbühne and the theater at Nollendorfplatz, then especially at the theater in Behrenstraße. During the war she was in 1941 as the lead actress in the farce The red petticoat successful, so she went on tour for the troops care in France.

After 1945, she appeared in 16 DEFA films. In Benthin Family (1950 ) they experienced as living in West Germany mother that her family members are better off in the east, and in the sun Brucks as well as in the ax of Wandsbek they acted like a stubborn National Socialist.

Until the construction of the Wall in 1961 it belonged to the East Berlin Volksbühne. After living in West Berlin artist barely got opportunities to perform. 1970, she was awarded for her life's work, the film tape in gold.

Filmography

Awards

1970: Film Award for many years of excellent work in the German film