Maria Orska

Known for

Acting

Born

March 16, 1893

Birthplace

Nikolayev, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Mykolaiv, Ukraine]

Died

May 16, 1930 (aged 37)

Biography

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.

Best known work

Die schwarze Loo

1917

Dämon und Mensch

1915

Die Bestie im Menschen

1921

Adamants letztes Rennen

1916

Filmography

1921
Die Bestie im Menschen
1917
Die schwarze Loo
as Gypsy dancer Loo
1916
Adamants letztes Rennen
as Eva/ Christine Wendeborg
1915
Dämon und Mensch
as Lina