Luise del Zopp, birth name Aloisia Theresia Johanna Luksch, also Louise Lingg, (1871 – after 1946) was a German actress, opera singer and screenwriter.
Biography
Born on 16 June 1871 in
Brünn
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(now Brno) in Austro-Hungarian
Moravia
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The me ...
, del Zopp first performed as a stage actress in her home town. Following appearances as an operetta singer in
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
and
Vienna
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, she again appeared as a stage actress in Germany and Austria while also performing as an opera singer under the stage name Louise Lingg.
Berlin
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where she first spent two years as an operetta singer. She then met the actor and film director Rudolf del Zopp (1861–1927) whom she married. He introduced her to Germany's top filmmakers of the times, including Oskar Messter
Oskar Messter (21 November 1866 – 6 December 1943) was a German inventor and film tycoon in the early years of cinema. His firm Messter Film was one of the dominant German producers before the rise of UFA, into which it was ultimately merg ...
and Adolf Gärtner
Adolf Gärtner (1879–1958) was a German film director of the silent era.Cresswell & Dixon p.174
Selected filmography
* '' The Night Talk'' (1917)
* '' Sadja'' (1918)
* '' The Lady in the Car'' (1919)
* '' Between Two Worlds'' (1919)
* ''Napoleo ...
. She wrote the screenplay for the silent film ''Adressantin verstorben'' (Sender Deceased, 1911) directed by Gärtner and featuring Henny Porten
Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent era, and Germany's first major film star. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1906 and 1955.
Biography
Frieda Ulrick ...
.[
After her husband died in 1926, the director and critic ]Gerhard Lamprecht
Gerhard Lamprecht (6 October 1897 – 4 May 1974) was a German film director, screenwriter and film historian. He directed 63 films between 1920 and 1958. He also wrote for 26 films between 1918 and 1958.
Life and career
Lamprecht was fasci ...
continued to support her but little is known of her later life.
Filmography
* ''Friedel, der Geiger'' (1910/1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Der vergrabene Schatz'' (1910/1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Die schlechte Zensur'' (1911) (screenwriter)
*''Ein Fehltritt: Die Tragödie einer Geächteten'' (1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Ein Spiel um das Lebensglück zweier Menschen'' (1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Die Großstadt bei Nacht, wie sie weint und lacht'' (1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Sklave der Liebe'' (1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Briefkasten an den lieben Gott'' (1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Frau Rechtsanwalts erster Erfolg'' (1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Im Glück vergessen (''1911) (screenwriter and camera)
* ''Die Wallfahrt nach Kevlaar'' (1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Zur rechten Zeit'' (1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Tragödie eines Verräters'' (1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Nur einen Helden will sie lieben!'' (1911) (screenwriter)
* ''Geächtet'' (1911/1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Ein Leben'' (1911/1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Heimat'' (1911/1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Mamas Schutzengel'' (1911/1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Adressatin verstorben'' (1911/1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Um fremde Schuld. Eine Episode aus dem Leben'' (1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Ein Blick in den Abgrund'' (1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Mimosa-san'' (1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Der weiße Schleier'' (1912 ) (screenwriter)
* ''Die Stradivarius-Geige'' (1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Freiheit oder Tod'' (1912) (screenwriter) (crime film starring Wanda Treumann)
* ''Die Hochzeit von Valeni'' (1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Quälendes Dasein'' (1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Komtesse Seeros''e (1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Isaak, der Handelsjude'' (1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Es muß ein Schauspieler sein'' (1912) (screenwriter)
* ''Ein Schwur'' (1912/1913) (screenwriter and actress)
* ''Das Kriegslied der Rheinarmee'' (1913) (screenwriter)
* ''Motiv unbekannt. Das Drama einer Ehe'' (1913) (screenwriter)
* ''Wir lassen uns scheiden'' (1913) (screenwriter)
* ''Der Zirkusteufel'' (1913) (screenwriter)
* ''Erblich belastet?'' (1913) (screenwriter) (western/crime film starring Aud-Egede Nissen)
References
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1871 births
1946 deaths
Actors from Brno
Musicians from the Margraviate of Moravia
20th-century German actresses
German opera singers
German women screenwriters
German stage actresses
Film people from Brno
Moravian-German people
20th-century German screenwriters