Maria Matray
Maria Matray, including Mary and Mary Solveg Solveg - Matray (* July 14, 1907 in Niederschoenhausen; † 30 October 1993 in Munich) was a German actress, choreographer and author.
Life
Matray Maria was the youngest of four daughters of the chief engineer and later director at AEG Georg Stern and his wife Lisbeth born Schmidt. Her sister Käthe Kollwitz was her aunt. Two of her sisters ( Johanna Hofer and Regula Keller ) were actresses; Catherine, the third sister, was a dancer and actress ( stage name Katta Sterna ).
Mary took ballet lessons and left secondary school in 1921 to devote himself to an artistic career. When Mary Solveg they went under the direction of director Ernst Matray as a dancer on tour and has performed among others at the London Palladium.
Gradually, they also got speaking roles such as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at a performance in Salzburg 1927. During the same year she married Ernst Matray and went with him on a tour of America. After that, she appeared primarily in Berlin theaters.
She also received several film roles and embodied the popular in the 1920s type of cheeky doll-like girl.
After the seizure of power by the Nazis, she followed her husband into exile. About France and England they arrived in 1934 in the United States. Maria Matray danced in Revue tours and also worked as an assistant director and production assistant for Max Reinhardt. Together with Matray she was responsible for the choreography in dance routines unnamed in numerous film productions. Furthermore, they wrote drafts of screenplays and published in 1946 along with the co-author Arnold Philips her first novel, which was also filmed.
1953, the couple returned Matray back to Germany. She worked George Dandin by Moliere and Parisian life by Jacques Offenbach, which In 1954, Ernst Matray at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg to the performance. In the following years, Maria Matray wrote numerous screenplays for the film and then mainly for television. They mostly worked with Answald Kruger. Also, several plays and novels she co-authored.
Maria Matray who was an American citizen since 1953, became in 1960 the West German citizenship and settled in Munich. In 1962, the marriage ended in divorce with Ernst Matray. Together with Kruger she delivered in the following years, especially television documentaries for ZDF, which were characterized by careful research. After Kruger's death in 1977 she continued her screenplay with changing co-authors.
She was buried in the forest cemetery in Munich, burial ground 421 anonymous.