Else von Möllendorff
Else by Moellendorff also Möllensdorf ( f) (born 29 December 1913 in Munich, † July 28, 1982 in Lübeck was a German actress.
Life
The daughter of actor and director Kurt von Moellendorff (1885 -? ) And Marianne nee Wachowiak ( 1878-1959 ) collected as a child early theater experiences. In the first German short sound film, a production of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The girl with the matches, she played the title character in 1925.
After acting lessons she received in 1930 an engagement at the Metropol Theater in Berlin. At the Berlin stage, such as the Theater am Nollendorf Square and the Theatre of the West, she took leading roles in theater adaptations of fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood and Little Peter Moon ride. Later she acted in plays such as Faith and home of Karl Schönherr and small rabbits can not help by Hans Mahner -Mons.
In the 1930s, the fair-haired actress was slow to establish itself in the German film. In Napoleon to Blame ( 1938) is disturbed it as a dancer Madeleine married life of portrayed by Curt Goetz Napoleon researcher Lord Arthur Cavershoot. In I entrust my wife (1943 ) with Heinz Rühmann she mimed the attractive secretary Lil in respect of which all complications begin.
After the war Moellendorff still played until 1948, ie until shortly after their wedding, theater in Hamburg. There she married on September 27, 1947 Kaufmann Horst Wiersbitzky ( born April 14, 1910 in Königsberg, East Prussia, † ..... ) and lived with him in Hamburg- Blankenese. Your retirement years she spent however withdrawn in Lübeck.