Marina von Ditmar

Marina von Ditmar
Born	30 October 1914 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	3 September 2014(2014-09-03) (aged 99) Bad Kissingen, Germany
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1934–1951 (film)

Marina von Ditmar (30 October 1914 – 3 September 2014) was a German film actress born in Saint Petersburg of Baltic German descent.

After moving to Germany she studied acting under Lucie Höflich and Ilka Grüning. Her first roles were performed at the Schauspielhaus, Bremen, and the Altes Theater (Leipzig). In 1937 she started with the ensemble at the Volksbühne, Berlin. By 1940 she was a permanent actress at this theatre. Her first big movie success came in the operetta The Csardas Princess in 1934, alongside Hans Söhnker. In 1943 she starred with Hans Albers in Münchhausen with great commercial and critical success. During the Third Reich she was cast in several Nazi propaganda films, such as Legion Condor (1939) with Paul Hartmann, and Stukas (1941) as a French girl alongside Carl Raddatz.

In 1949 she married Dr. Hans-Georg Dehnhardt (1913–2001) and after having starred in about 24 movies she retired from acting. She died the month before her 100th birthday, in Bad Kissingen, Bavaria, where she is buried in the Parkfriedhof.

Selected filmography

• The Csardas Princess (1934)
• City of Anatol (1936)
• Love Can Lie (1937)
• The Divine Jetta (1937)
• A Prussian Love Story (1938)
• Legion Condor (1939)
• Above All Else in the World (1941)
• The Red Terror (1942)
• With the Eyes of a Woman (1942)
• Münchhausen (1943)
• When the Young Wine Blossoms (1943)
• Come Back to Me (1944)
• The Appeal to Conscience (1949)
• Crown Jewels (1950)

Bibliography

• Richards, Jeffrey. Visions of Yesterday. Routledge, 2014.

External links

• Marina von Ditmar at IMDb