Marija Leiko
Marija Leiko ( Latvian Marija Leiko, also known as Marija Leyko or Maria Leyko; born August 14, 1887 in Riga, † February 3, 1938 in Moscow) was a Latvian theater and film actress.
Life
With her partner, the actor and later director John Good and her daughter Nora, born in 1908, she fled in 1909 because she was suspected of Trotskyism, from Czarist Russia to Western Europe. In Vienna, she received a scholarship from the Burgtheater, and her first engagement as an actress, she joined in 1911 at the New Theatre in Frankfurt am Main. Later, she appeared in Leipzig and again in Frankfurt.
Since 1917, she lived in Berlin and acted on the Reinhardt theaters. Guest performances have taken her to Munich, where she was seen in Henry 's play Madame Legros. In 1920, she appeared in her hometown of Riga. Her theater roles included the title character of Nora and Ophelia in Hamlet.
30 -year-old she made her film debut in the thriller The diamonds Foundation under Guters Director. Notoriety she gained as a dancer and actress in the German films Cain (1918 ), Eternal Power (1919), The Woman in the Cage (1919) and especially Lola Montez (1919). In the 20s it became more and more into the background. With the end of the silent film era, she retired from the film, and devoted himself to the theater.
After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 Leiko again lived in Riga. After the death of her daughter in 1935 Marija Leiko traveled around the grand daughter to pick up itself to Tbilisi. On the way back she was in Moscow from friends talked for a few seasons at the Moscow Theater " Skatuve " occur. During the Great Terror, she was then arrested and shot in 1938 by the Commissariat Narodny Wnutrennich Djel ( Ministry of Interior ). He was charged with membership of a counter-revolutionary nationalist Latvian fascist organization. In 1957 their rehabilitation.