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| Olga
Tschechowa
1897 - 1980 |
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. The actress Olga Tschechowa was born as Olga von Knipper in Aleksandropol. She grew up in a wealthy family which had very good contacts to the czar court. Her mother was artistic talented and her aunt was the famous actress Olga Knipper-Cechova, who was married with the writer Anton Cechov. Because of this family connection she was in contact with famour artists like Tolstoj, Glazunov and Saljapin. Olga Tschechowa studied sculpture at the St. Peterburg Academy of Arts, after that she attended an acting school and played her first roles at the Moscow artist theater. She got married with Michail Cechov in 1914, a nephew of her oncle. The marriage was divorces three years later, their mutual daughter Ada (1917-1966) became also a well-known actess who was killed in an air crash. Olga Tschechowa earned her living with wood-carving during the confusion of the war and the revolution. In the same time she got her first small parts in the Russian movies "Anja Kraeva" (18), "Kaliostro" (18) and "Das letzte Abenteuer des Arsène Lupin" (18). She made a journey to Berlin in 1920 and decided short-range to stay
there and to find her luck as an actress.
In the following years she acted in movies like "Die Gesunkenen" (25),
"Die Mühle von Sanssouci" (26), "Familie Schimeck" (26), "Der Florentiner
Hut" (27), "Moulin Rouge" (28), directed by René Clair and "Diana"
(29).
Olga Tschechowa became a German citizen in 1930 and continued her career successfully in the sound film era. To her well-known movies of the 30's belong "Liebe im Ring" (30), "Die Drei von der Tankstelle" (30), "Liebling der Götter" (30), "Mary/Sir John greift ein" (30), "Trenck" (32), "Liebelei" (33), "Ein gewisser Herr Gran" (33), "Maskerade" (34), "Peer Gynt" (34), "Der Favorit der Kaiserin" (36), "Burgtheater" (36), "Zwei Frauen" (38) and "Bel Ami" (39). In the 40's followed well-known productions like "Menschen im Sturm" (41), "Andreas Schlüter" (42) and "Der ewige Klang" (43), after that her career draw to a close. In the post-war years followed small parts in "Kein Engel ist so rein" (50), "Aufruhr im Paradies" (50), "Alles für Papa" (53), "Rosen-Resli" (54), "Rittmeister Wronski" (54), "Die Barrings" (55) and "U 47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien" (58). At the end of the 50's she retired from the film business. In the 70's she had a short comeback with the movies "Gestrickte Spuren" (70), "Duell zu Dritt" (71), "Die Zwillinge vom Immenhof" (73) and "Frühling auf Immenhof" (74). After World War II there went around different rumours about Olga Tschechowa.
One said she was a spy for the KGB and even got the Lenin medal (in this
case there was a case of mistaken identity with her aunt of the same name
in Russia), an other one maintained that she was a double agent for Poland
as well as Hitler and moreover that she was Hitler's mistress.
Other movies with Olga Tschechowa:
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