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Emilie Kurz


1863 - ?

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The actress Emilie Kurz was born as Emilie Maria Menzinger in Troppau. Her father was the photographer Johann Kurz, who married her mother only in 1870.
Before embarking on a career in the theater, Emilie Kurz received an education at a convent school, but after 1900 she finally went to the theater, where she was also engaged for a long time at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in the coming years.

She was engaged for the film business in 1916 by Paul Wegener with whom she already played on stage in the past. Sie took part in his movies "Rübezahl's Hochzeit" (16) and "Der Golem und die Tänzerin" (17).

She continued her film career and acted in "Ossi's Tagebuch" (17), "Die Tochter des Mehemed" (19), "Der brennende Acker" (22), "Der letzte Mann" (24), "Manon Lescaut" (26) and "Der Kampf des Donald Westhof" (27).

After a longer interruption Emilie Kurz returned to the big screen in 1932 and she played in her first sound film "Strich durch die Rechnung" (32). Other movies followed with "Sag' mir, wer Du bist" (33) and "Peer Gynt" (34).

 
Other movies with Emilie Kurz:
Das Millionenmädel (19) Der Staatsanwalt (20) Misericordia - Tötet nicht mehr (20) Die Austreibung (23) Der verlorene Schuh (23) Die gefundene Braut (25) Schwester Veronica (27) 

 
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