Ellen Richter
Ellen Richter ( born July 21, 1893 in Vienna, † September 11, 1969 in Dusseldorf, Germany; native Kate White ) was an Austrian actress and film producer.
Life
She was the youngest of five children from Hungary originating Jewish citizens in Vienna. After attending elementary school she took acting lessons with Ferdinand Gregori at the Academy for the Performing Arts.
She passed with distinction and entered at the City Theatre Brno ( 1908), at the residence Stage Vienna (1910 ) and at the stage artist Munich ( 1911) on. In 1912, she played in Berlin on Noll Village Theatre, where she in the operetta La belle Hélène, among other things embodied Orestes.
In 1915, Ellen Richter came to a silent film and was immediately given leading roles. She became a star of German Sensations and adventure cinema. In 1920 she founded with her future husband Willi Wolff Ellen Richter GmbH. Wolff also served as screenwriter and director of her films where she always stood at the center. Frequently their films played to an exotic background.
The seizure of power by the National Socialists abruptly ended her successful film career. Ellen Richter was covered with movie ban, and in 1938 expelled from the Reich Film Chamber. In 1935 she left with her husband and Germany had returned to Vienna. There, the couple Wolff remained until the Anschluss. Yet in 1938 both fled to France before the end of 1940 the German Wehrmacht finally in the United States. There, Ellen Richter and Willi Wolff settled in New York City.
After Wolff's death at the beginning of a joint trip to Europe in April 1947 Judge remained several years in New York and West Hollywood resident, before they settled in Dusseldorf, where a nephew Wolff lived. After her own death Ellen Richter was buried at her husband's side in Nice.