Elisabeth Wendt

Elisabeth Wendt
circa 1928
Born	11 January 1906 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Died	24 March 1980 (1980-03-25) (aged 74) West Berlin, West Germany
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1931 - 1964

Elisabeth Wendt (11 January 1906 – 24 March 1980) was a German film actress. After making her debut in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Comradeship (1931),^[1] she appeared mostly in supporting roles during the Nazi era and immediate post-Second World War years.

Partial filmography

• Comradeship (1931) - Frau Anna Wittkopp
• Theodor Körner (1932)
• The First Right of the Child (1932)
• Sacred Waters (1932)
• Impossible Love (1932) - Katharina Steinkampp, seine Frau
• Die vom Niederrhein (1933) - Bettina Wittelsbach
• Mother and Child (1934) - Frau Petersen
• Hanneles Himmelfahrt (1934) - Hete
• Stradivárius (1935)
• Ein seltsamer Gast (1936) - Lou
• The Hour of Temptation (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 (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 (1941) - Nora Mullins
• The Green Salon (1944) - Lieselotte, seine Frau
• Die Buntkarierten (1949)
• Girls Behind Bars (1949) - Else Richnow, 'Bohnenstange'
• Dr. Semmelweis (1950) - 2. Krankenschwester
• The Staircase (1950) - Frau Görisch
• Ave Maria (1953) - Lisa Nilsson

References

1. Eisner p.351

Bibliography

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

External links

• Elisabeth Wendt at IMDb