Gilda Langer
German postcard by NPG, no. 776/3. Photo: Anny Eberth.
Hermengild "Gilda" Langer (* 16 May 1896 in Priwoz; † 31 January 1920 in Charlottenburg) was a Austrian-German silent film and theatre actress.
Gilda Langer came to acting in 1915 through her acquaintance with the Austrian scriptwriter Carl Mayer, who took her with him from Vienna to Berlin. Mayer became a dramaturge at the Berlin Residenztheater and Langer got an engagement there as an actress. In 1918 she debuted on screen alongside Conrad Veidt and Harry Liedtke in Das Rätsel von Bangalor (Alexander von Antalffy, Paul Leni). She next had the lead in Eugen Illés'film Ringende Seelen (PAGU 1918) and in Victor Janson's Das Mädchen mit dem Goldhelm (PAGU 1919). In 1919 Langer got a contract with the film production company Decla Film, where she did one film with Otto Rippert (Die Frau mit den Orchideen, 1919), after which two films by Fritz Lang followed: Der Herr der Liebe (1919) and the two-part film Die Spinnen (1919-1920). German Wikipedia and IMDb also mention Halbblut (1919) by Lang, but this is not confirmed by Filmportal.
Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz wrote the script for Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari and saw Langer in the female lead. Decla bought the script and the film was to be made in 1920. Langer was meanwhile engaged to director Paul Czinner and fell ill with Spanish flu at the end of January 1920, which developed into a lung infection. The actress died in Berlin on 31 January 1920 at the age of 23. The female lead in Dr. Caligari was given to Lil Dagover.
Source: German Wikipedia, Filmportal, IMDb.
Gilda Langer
German postcard by NPG, no. 776/3. Photo: Anny Eberth.
Hermengild "Gilda" Langer (* 16 May 1896 in Priwoz; † 31 January 1920 in Charlottenburg) was a Austrian-German silent film and theatre actress.
Gilda Langer came to acting in 1915 through her acquaintance with the Austrian scriptwriter Carl Mayer, who took her with him from Vienna to Berlin. Mayer became a dramaturge at the Berlin Residenztheater and Langer got an engagement there as an actress. In 1918 she debuted on screen alongside Conrad Veidt and Harry Liedtke in Das Rätsel von Bangalor (Alexander von Antalffy, Paul Leni). She next had the lead in Eugen Illés'film Ringende Seelen (PAGU 1918) and in Victor Janson's Das Mädchen mit dem Goldhelm (PAGU 1919). In 1919 Langer got a contract with the film production company Decla Film, where she did one film with Otto Rippert (Die Frau mit den Orchideen, 1919), after which two films by Fritz Lang followed: Der Herr der Liebe (1919) and the two-part film Die Spinnen (1919-1920). German Wikipedia and IMDb also mention Halbblut (1919) by Lang, but this is not confirmed by Filmportal.
Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz wrote the script for Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari and saw Langer in the female lead. Decla bought the script and the film was to be made in 1920. Langer was meanwhile engaged to director Paul Czinner and fell ill with Spanish flu at the end of January 1920, which developed into a lung infection. The actress died in Berlin on 31 January 1920 at the age of 23. The female lead in Dr. Caligari was given to Lil Dagover.
Source: German Wikipedia, Filmportal, IMDb.