Hanna Ralph (born Johanna Antonia Adelheid Günther; 25 September 1888 – 25 March 1978)[1] was a German stage and film actress whose career began on the stage and in silent film in the 1910s and continued through the early 1950s.
Hanna Ralph's career withstood the transition to sound film, however she appeared in only three films of the 1930s; instead, she spent much of the decade in theatre. By the Second World War she retired from acting. After the war's end, she briefly returned to film in the early 1950s; appearing in small roles in director Wolfgang Liebeneiner's 1951 crime drama The Blue Star of the South and Harald Reinl's 1952 drama Behind Monastery Walls before retiring from acting altogether.
Portrait of Hanna Ralph by Friedrich August Kaulbach, ca. 1912.
Personal life
Hanna Ralph was married to the German actor Emil Jannings in 1919, however the marriage ended in divorce in 1921.[4] She was later briefly married to director Fritz Wendhausen. She died in 1978 in West Berlin, West Germany at the age of 89.
Awards
In 1968 she was awarded the Bundesfilmpreis for her legacy as an actress in German cinema.[5]
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