Elsa Wagner

Elisabeth Karoline Auguste Wagner ( later: Rühl, born January 24, 1881 in Reval, now Tallinn, Estonia; † August 17, 1975 in Berlin) was a German film and theater actress. Since 1916, she participated in at least 140 feature films.

Life

Elsa Wagner received her acting training at Maria Spettini (1847-1904) in Saint Petersburg and debuted in 1901 with the German Berliner Novitätenbühne. This touring company she toured the former East and West Prussia.

Then Elsa Wagner received engagements at theaters in Heidelberg and Plauen. From 1907 to 1911 she played at the Residenz Theater Hannover and from 1911 to 1921 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. From 1921 until the end of the Second World War, she worked at the State Theatre in Berlin, then again at the German Theatre and from 1951 at the Schiller Theater in Berlin as well as the palace grounds theater.

Elsa Wagner played mostly supporting roles, such as the Marthe Schwerdtlein or the nurse in Faust, the Aase in Peer Gynt, or the housekeeper in The Exiles by James Joyce.

Also in the film, Elsa Wagner profiled in numerous roles as a supporting actress. Recently she was seen in television series such as the Every Man series Road No. 11 In 1966, she received the Film Award for many years of excellent work in German film and 1971, the Ernst- Reuter- badge.

Her grave in the cemetery Dahlem is an honorable grave of the State of Berlin.

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