Lucie Höflich (born Helene Lucie von Holwede; 20 February 1883 – 9 October 1956) was a German actress, teacher and head of the Staatliche Schauspielschule (State Drama School) in Berlin. In 1937 she was named the Staats-Schauspielerin (State Actress) and in 1953 she was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz.
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Stage appearances
Lucie Höflich was born in Hanover and debuted at the age of 16 at the Bromberg City Theater and in 1901 moved to the Intime Theater von Nürnberg, and then to the Raimund Theater in Vienna. In 1903 Max Reinhardt recruited her to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin where she performed until 1932.
Examples of her appearances were as Kätchen in Heinrich von Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn in 1905 and as Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 1907. While still active on stage she appeared in her first film, the Gendarm Möbius in 1913.
She died in West Berlin in 1956, aged 73.
Selected filmography
Among the films she acted in were Maria Magdalene in 1929, Die Straße in 1923, Tartüff in 1925, the 1936 The Abduction of the Sabine Women, the Nazi Propaganda Film Ohm Krüger in 1941, with her last being the 1956 The Story of Anastasia.
Mary Magdalene (1920) as Klara
Catherine the Great (1920) as Catherine the Great
The Rats (1921) as Mrs. John
Seafaring Is Necessary (1921)
The Inheritance of Tordis (1921) as Anna Kathrins's mother
A Glass of Water (1923) as the Duchess of Marlborough
The Lost Shoe (1923) as Countess Benrat
The Street (1923) as the wife of the petty bourgeois man
Nora (1923) as Mrs. Linden
Kaddish (1924)
The Secret Agent (1924) as the Duchess's mother
A Waltz Dream (1925)
Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand (1925)
The House of Lies (1926) as Gina
Only a Dancing Girl (1926) as Mrs. Radinger
The Beaver Coat (1928) as Mrs. Wolff
Life's Circus (1928) as the wife
1914 (1931) as the Czarina
The White Demon (1932) as Gildemeister's Mother
The Golden Anchor (1932) as Honorine
The Burning Secret (1933) as the wife's mother
Peer Gynt (1934) as Mother Aase
Family Parade (1936) as Mrs. Applequist
The Czar's Courier (1936) as Marfa Strogoff
The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1936) as Rosa
The Citadel of Warsaw (1937) as Frau Welgorska
Robert Koch (1939) as Mrs. Paul
We Danced Around the World (1939) as Jenny Hill
The Fox of Glenarvon (1940) as Baroness Margit O'Connor
Ohm Krüger (1941) as Sanna Krüger
Das Grosse Spiel (1942) as Mrs. Klebuch
An Old Heart Becomes Young Again (1943) as Frau Blume
Laugh Bajazzo (1943) as Emelia
Sky Without Stars (1955) as Mother Mathilde Kaminski
The Story of Anastasia (1956) as Mrs. Bäumle