Person

Maria Orska

Acting · 1893–1930 · Nikolayev, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Mykolaiv, Ukraine]

Maria Orska, born Effi Rachel Blindermann, was a Russian/German stage and screen actress. Just before World War I she moved to Wien, Hamburg and Berlin in 1915. She spoke fluently German, French, Italian, Russian and Polish. In Berlin, she worked with Rudolf Bernauer in the Hebbel Theater, Max Reinhardt and was famous for her parts in theater plays by Strindberg, Wedekind and Pirandello. Maria Orska's film debut was in "Dämon und Mensch" (1915) produced by Jules Greenbaum. an important actress of the German theater and cinema in the 1920s.

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  Die schwarze Loo

  Gypsy dancer Loo

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  Die Bestie im Menschen

  1921

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  Dämon und Mensch

  Lina

• Adamants letztes Rennen

  Eva/ Christine Wendeborg

• 1921Die Bestie im Menschen
• 1917Die schwarze LooGypsy dancer Loo
• 1916Adamants letztes RennenEva/ Christine Wendeborg
• 1915Dämon und MenschLina