Hedwiga Reicher
Hedwiga Rich ( born June 12, 1884 as Hedwig E. Rich in Oldenburg, † September 2, 1971 in Los Angeles, California, United States) was a German -born actress.
Life
The daughter of Emanuel Reicher and half-sister of Frank Rich and Ernst Reicher made her stage debut in October 1902 with Zoë in Adolf von Wilbrandt The Master of Palmyra in Hamburg. She stayed five years in Germany, before they (later Irving Place Theatre ) 1907 a commitment to the German theater nachkam in New York City. Then remained Hedwig Reicher in the U.S.. On September 19, 1929, the artist was naturalized under the slightly altered name Hedwiga rich.
Before that, she sat down, then still as Hedwig Reicher, at Broadway her theater work (now in English-speaking parts ) away. You could see the artist, among other things, 1909 in On the Eve, 1909/10 in The Next of Kin, 1911 in The Lady from the Sea and The Thunderbolt, 1912 in June Madness, 1913 in The Stronger, 1915 in When the Young Vine Blooms and 1916 as Cleopatra in Caliban of the Young Sands. Then she moved to Los Angeles.
In Hollywood Hedwiga Rich played since the mid-1920s a number of supporting roles, mostly as an immigrant or in motherly roles. Beginning of 1939 had Hedwiga rich in the first decidedly anti-Nazi U.S. strip I was a spy for the Nazis. For this film, she took the pseudonym Celia Sibelius to for fear of reprisals by the Nazis to her family in Germany, at least claimed this Lya Lys. A few months later, at the beginning of World War II, Hedwiga Rich ended her film work, but remained until her death continues in Los Angeles resident.