Erna Morena
Erna Morena ( born April 24, 1885 in Wörth am Main, † July 20, 1962 in Munich, real name: Ernestine Mary Fox) was a German film actress, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film period and the dawn of the talkies.
Life
In a middle-class family, born Erna Morena went with 17 years to Munich to attend art school here. Later, she spent half a year in Paris, until they finally moved at the end of the first decade to Berlin and worked there as a nurse.
They probably took the same time to the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin teaching, for his ensemble Max Reinhardt hired her in 1910 as an actress. The following year she appeared in small roles here. In 1912 she came to the film.
Her film debut was in 1913 in The Sphinx of Eugen Illés for the newly founded film production company Literaria film by Alfred Duskes, their content there was 500 marks per month, or about 2,509 euros. Overall, she starred in about 120 films. She worked with well-known directors such as Paul Leni, Richard Oswald, Robert Wiene, FW Murnau, and GW Pabst, playing alongside great colleagues like Conrad Veidt, Emil Jannings, Reinhold Schünzel and Werner Krauss.
She was one of the most unusual stars of the German silent movie: dark-haired, tall and with distinctive facial features, she had a star appeal later called Greta Garbo and was on a par with Asta Nielsen and Henny Porten. However, her name is now largely forgotten.
Morena also tried his hand as a producer In 1918, she founded in Berlin Erna Morena Film GmbH, supported by some friends as a partner with which it, inter alia, the silent films Colomba (1918 with Werner Krauss ) and the 999th Night ( 1919/1920 produced with Hans Albers ).
From 1915 to 1921 Erna Morena was married to the writer William Duke. The couple had their daughter Eva -Maria Herzog ( 1915-2007 ).
Erna Morena played the role of women in the Consistorial NS propaganda film Jud Suss.
Erna Morena was buried in the Winthirfriedhof in Munich- Neuhausen next to her mother. Nearby is the grave of her brother, the Brentano researcher Friedrich Fuchs, who was married to Ruth Schaumann.