Hilde von Stolz
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Hilde von Stolz was an Austrian-German actress.
von Stolz attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar
in Vienna and made her debut at the local Chamber of games. She subsequently performed at various theaters in Vienna and in the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin.
She made her debut in film in 1928 under the pseudonym "Helen Steels". That same year, she moved to Berlin. In her second film role, she played the lead role opposite Reinhold Schünzel in its staging Don Juan in the girls' school. Hilde of pride, which occurred in 1933 under her real name was long a major actress, but had to be satisfied in general with major supporting roles that usually portrayed elegant ladies and femmes fatales such as the actress Lydia Link in Traumulus.
von Stolz had planned to emigrate from Germany but the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 frustrated those plans. During the war she worked in a number of Nazi propaganda films, the most widely known of these was her role as the wife of Duke Karl Alexander in Veit Harlan
's Jud Süß
. After the war, she acted only rarely in films.
After her death, she was buried in the family vault.
von Stolz attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar
Max Reinhardt Seminar
The Max Reinhardt Seminar is the School of Drama at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. It is located in the Palais Cumberland, Penzingerstraße 9, in Vienna's 14th district - History :...
in Vienna and made her debut at the local Chamber of games. She subsequently performed at various theaters in Vienna and in the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin.
She made her debut in film in 1928 under the pseudonym "Helen Steels". That same year, she moved to Berlin. In her second film role, she played the lead role opposite Reinhold Schünzel in its staging Don Juan in the girls' school. Hilde of pride, which occurred in 1933 under her real name was long a major actress, but had to be satisfied in general with major supporting roles that usually portrayed elegant ladies and femmes fatales such as the actress Lydia Link in Traumulus.
von Stolz had planned to emigrate from Germany but the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 frustrated those plans. During the war she worked in a number of Nazi propaganda films, the most widely known of these was her role as the wife of Duke Karl Alexander in Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan
Veit Harlan was a German film director and actor.-Life and career:Harlan was born in Berlin. After studying under Max Reinhardt, he first appeared on the stage in 1915 and, after World War I, worked in the Berlin stage. In 1922 he married Jewish actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson; the couple...
's Jud Süß
Jud Süß (1940 film)
Jud Süß is an antisemitic propaganda film produced in 1940 by Terra Filmkunst at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. The movie was directed by Veit Harlan, who wrote the screenplay with Eberhard Wolfgang Möller and Ludwig Metzger, and starred Ferdinand Marian and Harlan's wife Kristina Söderbaum.The...
. After the war, she acted only rarely in films.
After her death, she was buried in the family vault.