Grit Haid
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4655/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Atelier Badekow, Berlin.
Grit Haid (1900-1938) was an Austrian film actress who was active in Austrian and German cinema from the 1910s to the 1930s.
Born 14, March 1900 in Vienna, as Margarete Haid, Grit Haid was the sister of actress Liane Haid. She did her ballet classes and became solo dancer at the Viennese Volksoper. Already at a young age she started her film career (her first films are from 1915), and soon was typecasted as the typical merry Wiener Mädel. After the First World War she worked a.o. for the Viennese Filmag. Haid mainly played in comedies, sometimes also in dramas, and from 1926 on she also appeared in German films. It was then that her career really set off, with films such as Der Soldat der Marie (Erich Schönfelder 1926) starring Xenia Desni, Menschen untereinander (Gerhard Lamprecht 1926) starring Alfred Abel, Der Mann ohne Kopf (Nunzio Malasomma 1927) starring Carlo Aldini, Der alte Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht 1927) starring Otto Gebühr, Saxophon-Susi (Carl Lamac 1928) starring Anny Ondra, Sein bester Freund (Harri Piel 1929) and Andreas Hofer (Hans Prechtl 1929), starring Fritz Greiner. She also played in two of the adventure movies that serial film hero Eddy Polo did in Germany in the late 1920s: Der gefesselte Polo (1928) and Eddy Polo im Wespennest (1930). In the mean while Haid remained engaged at the Berlinese and Viennese theater and 1926/27 she performed under Max Reinhardt’s direction as Fräulein Roboz in Molnar’s one act play Das Veilchen, as well as Nannie in Maugham’s Viktoria. In the 1930s Grit Haid, who was married to scriptwriter Than, became only small parts. All in all Haid played in some 50 films. Gritt Haid tragically died in a plane crash at the Schwarzwald, on 13. August, 1938.
Sources: German Wikipedia, IMDB, www.cyranos.ch/smhaig-d.htm.
Grit Haid
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4655/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Atelier Badekow, Berlin.
Grit Haid (1900-1938) was an Austrian film actress who was active in Austrian and German cinema from the 1910s to the 1930s.
Born 14, March 1900 in Vienna, as Margarete Haid, Grit Haid was the sister of actress Liane Haid. She did her ballet classes and became solo dancer at the Viennese Volksoper. Already at a young age she started her film career (her first films are from 1915), and soon was typecasted as the typical merry Wiener Mädel. After the First World War she worked a.o. for the Viennese Filmag. Haid mainly played in comedies, sometimes also in dramas, and from 1926 on she also appeared in German films. It was then that her career really set off, with films such as Der Soldat der Marie (Erich Schönfelder 1926) starring Xenia Desni, Menschen untereinander (Gerhard Lamprecht 1926) starring Alfred Abel, Der Mann ohne Kopf (Nunzio Malasomma 1927) starring Carlo Aldini, Der alte Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht 1927) starring Otto Gebühr, Saxophon-Susi (Carl Lamac 1928) starring Anny Ondra, Sein bester Freund (Harri Piel 1929) and Andreas Hofer (Hans Prechtl 1929), starring Fritz Greiner. She also played in two of the adventure movies that serial film hero Eddy Polo did in Germany in the late 1920s: Der gefesselte Polo (1928) and Eddy Polo im Wespennest (1930). In the mean while Haid remained engaged at the Berlinese and Viennese theater and 1926/27 she performed under Max Reinhardt’s direction as Fräulein Roboz in Molnar’s one act play Das Veilchen, as well as Nannie in Maugham’s Viktoria. In the 1930s Grit Haid, who was married to scriptwriter Than, became only small parts. All in all Haid played in some 50 films. Gritt Haid tragically died in a plane crash at the Schwarzwald, on 13. August, 1938.
Sources: German Wikipedia, IMDB, www.cyranos.ch/smhaig-d.htm.