Ida Orloff

Ida Orloff
Born
Ida Margaretha Weissbeck
Ida Siegler von Eberswald

(1889-02-16)16 February 1889
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died9 April 1945(1945-04-09) (aged 56)
Tullnerbach, Nazi Germany
Years active1905–1941

Ida Orloff (also written Ida Orlov, pseudonym of Ida Siegler von Eberswald; 16 February 1889 – 9 April 1945) was a theater and silent film actress during the early 20th century. She was already "renowned for her performances of modern high literature at leading German theaters",[1] according to historians Jennifer Kapczynski and Michael Richardson, before she starred in the classic Danish silent film Atlantis, which was based upon the 1912 novel by Gerhardt Hauptmann. It was discovered years later that Orloff had been a secret lover and an inspirational muse for Hauptmann.[2] She met and began a relationship with him in 1905.[3]

  1. ^ Kapczynski, Jennifer M. and Michael David Richardson. A New History of German Cinema, p. 52. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2012.
  2. ^ Heuser, Frederick W. J. "The Life of Ida Orloff", in Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, Vol. 72, No. 4, September 1957, pp. 737-774. New York, New York: Modern Language Association.
  3. ^ "Hauptmann: Lage ist fürchterlich". Hamburg, Germany: Der Spiegel, January 10, 1966.