Elisabeth Wendt (11 January 1906 – 24 March 1980) was a German

film actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. After making her debut in

Georg Wilhelm Pabst Georg Wilhelm Pabst (25 August 1885 – 29 May 1967) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He started as an actor and theater director, before becoming one of the most influential German-language filmmakers during the Weimar Republic. ...

's '' Comradeship'' (1931),Eisner p.351 she appeared mostly in

supporting role A supporting character is a character in a narrative that is not the focus of the primary storyline, but is important to the plot/protagonist, and appears or is mentioned in the story enough to be more than just a minor character or a cameo a ...

s during the

Nazi era Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

and immediate post-

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

years.

Partial filmography

* '' Comradeship'' (1931) - Frau Anna Wittkopp * ''Theodor Körner'' (1932) * ''

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'' (1932) * ''

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'' (1932) * '' Impossible Love'' (1932) - Katharina Steinkampp, seine Frau * ''Die vom Niederrhein'' (1933) - Bettina Wittelsbach * ''

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'' (1934) - Frau Petersen * ''

Hanneles Himmelfahrt ''The Ascension of Little Hannele'' (), also known simply as ''Hannele'', is an 1893 play by the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann.Hartnoll (1983, 377). In contrast to Hauptmann's naturalistic dramas, ''The Assumption of Hannele'' adopts a mor ...

'' (1934) - Hete * ''Stradivárius'' (1935) * ''Ein seltsamer Gast'' (1936) - Lou * ''

The Hour of Temptation ''The Hour of Temptation'' () is a 1936 German mystery film directed by Paul Wegener and starring Gustav Fröhlich Gustav Friedrich Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary rol ...

'' (1936) - Alice - seine Frau * '' The Grey Lady'' (1937) - Lola * '' On Leave but Still on Duty'' (1938) - Lulu Frey * ''Frau Sylvelin'' (1938) - Fräulein Brunner * '' The Stars Shine'' (1938) - Lisa Marwen * ''Mordsache Holm'' (1938) - Jenny Nerger, seine Frau * ''

Men, Animals and Sensations ''Men, Animals and Sensations'' (German: ''Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen'') is a 1938 German drama film directed by and starring Harry Piel and also featuring Ruth Eweler and Elisabeth Wendt. It is a circus film. It was shot at the Terra Studios ...

'' (1938) - Maja de Passy * ''Der vierte kommt nicht'' (1939) - Frau Elle Fredmark * ''Die Hochzeitsreise'' (1939) - Countess Amelie Zuurmondt * ''Die fremde Frau'' (1939) - Jouka * ''Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge'' (1939) - Königin * ''

My Life for Ireland ''My Life for Ireland'' () is a 1941 Nazi German anti-British propaganda drama film produced in World War II. Directed by Max W. Kimmich, it tells a story of an Irish nationalist family and their involvement in the Irish struggle of independe ...

'' (1941) - Nora Mullins * ''

The Green Salon ''The Green Salon'' () is a 1944 German drama film directed by Boleslaw Barlog and starring Paul Klinger, Margarete Haagen and Dorothea Wieck. Partial cast * as Wilma *Walter Bluhm as Oswin, handyman *Hans Brausewetter as Dr. Artur Bütow, lawyer ...

'' (1944) - Lieselotte, seine Frau * ''Die Buntkarierten'' (1949) * '' Girls Behind Bars'' (1949) - Else Richnow, 'Bohnenstange' * '' Dr. Semmelweis'' (1950) - 2. Krankenschwester * '' The Staircase'' (1950) - Frau Görisch * ''

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'' (1953) - Lisa Nilsson

References

Bibliography

* Eisner, Lotte. ''The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt''. University of California Press, 2008.

External links

* 1906 births 1980 deaths German film actresses Actresses from Cologne 20th-century German actresses {{Germany-film-actor-1900s-stub