Lyda Salmonova
Lyda Salmonova (* July 14, 1889 in Prague, † November 18, 1968 ibid ) was a Czech actress.
Life
After a dance training in Prague, she was educated at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. 1910, she was there her stage debut. In 1915 she appeared in August Strindberg's Dance of Death in Norway and Sweden. Until 1918 it belonged to the ensemble directed by Max Reinhardt Deutsches Theater.
She was from 1913 to 1923 as an actress involved in virtually all silent movies, Paul Wegener, whose third wife she was and she was divorced in October 1924. Their son Peter Wegener was involved as a physicist at the V2 project at Peenemunde.
After her retirement from cinema 1923 Salmonova drama teacher at the UFA junior school. In the early 1930s she had her last stage performances. With the drama studio Lyda Wegener she founded her own acting school. After the Second World War she lived in her hometown of Prague.