Camilla Horn
Martha Camilla Horn ( born April 25, 1903 in Frankfurt am Main, † 14 August 1996 Gilching ) was a German actress.
Life
After a trade test as a dressmaker the daughter of a railway officials initially worked in various professions to fund a drama school. This eventually graduated in Berlin Lucie Polite and also took dance lessons with Rudolf von Laban.
In subsequent years, working mainly as an extra on stage and in film, she was discovered by Murnau in 1925 for the role of Gretchen in his fist adaptation. This film Faust - a German folk tale was such a great success that Camilla Horn thus a contract was awarded at the United Artists in Hollywood, among other things, cooperation with Ernst Lubitsch or John Barrymore had the effect of which she was almost always set to the type of upright naive in terms of their role but Gretchen. In 1929 she returned to Germany and was there as well with productions in the UK and France to build on their international success since their roles had now have a greater range and diversity.
After the war she worked because of their English skills first as a translator, then as an actress on stage and again in the film, rarely on TV. Horn played in the German -Hungarian co-production " The Spider ", and her last film appearance was Camilla Horn in 1988 in Peter Schamonis castle king wood, a tribute to star actresses of the UFA period, in which Marika Rokk, Marianne Hoppe or Carola Höhn participated. In 1985, she wrote her memoirs In love with love.
She was married four times, with the businessman Klaus Geerts, architect Kurt Kurfis, with Robert Schnyder and with Rudolf Mühlfenzl, the chief editor of the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Her grave is in the cemetery in Herrsching am Ammersee.