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Lotte Erol
1884 - 1961 |
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. The actress and singer Lotte Erol was born as Elsa Salzmann in Vienna. She began her professinal career at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna in 1960. It followed engagements in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Amsterdam, Den Haag and again Vienna. She appeared in front of the camera for the first time for "Mein Leopold" (14). Her film career took soon form but her active time in the film business remained limited to the early silent movie era till 1918. In the next years she impersonated roles in the productions "Und sie fanden sich wieder" (15), "Satan Opium" (15), "Die Söhne des Grafen Steinfels" (15), "Stuart Webbs: Die Reise ins Jenseits" (16), "Renates Liebesgeschichte" (16), "Aus dem Buche des Lebens" (16), "Die roten Schuhe" (17), "Der Weg ins Freie" (18), "Die schleichende Gefahr" (18) and "Der Bettler von Savern" (18). Only from 1930 she impersonated again small roles in the new rising sound film. To these productions belong "Das Schicksal einer schönen Frau" (30), "Die Nacht der Versuchung" (32), "Die verkaufte Braut" (32), "Fremdenlegionär Nr. 37" (32), "Kreuzer Emden" (32) and "Der Musikant von Eisenstadt" (33). Because her husband and she were Jews they emigrated to England in 1938.
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