Lucie Höflich


Lucie Höflich was a German actress, teacher and head of the Staatliche Schauspielschule in Berlin. In 1937 she was named the Staats-Schauspielerin and in 1953 she was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz.

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 as KlaraCatherine the Great as Catherine the GreatThe Rats as Mrs. JohnSeafaring Is Necessary The Inheritance of Tordis as Anna Kathrins's motherA Glass of Water as the Duchess of MarlboroughThe Lost Shoe as Countess BenratThe Street as the wife of the petty bourgeois manNora as Mrs. LindenKaddish The Secret Agent as the Duchess's motherA Waltz Dream Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand The House of Lies as GinaOnly a Dancing Girl as Mrs. RadingerThe Beaver Coat as Mrs. WolffLife's Circus as the wife1914 as the CzarinaThe White Demon as Gildemeister's MotherThe Golden Anchor as HonorineThe Burning Secret as the wife's motherPeer Gynt as Mother AaseFamily Parade as Mrs. ApplequistThe Czar's Courier as Marfa StrogoffThe Abduction of the Sabine Women as RosaThe Citadel of Warsaw as Frau WelgorskaRobert Koch as Mrs. PaulWe Danced Around the World as Jenny HillThe Fox of Glenarvon as Baroness Margit O'ConnorOhm Krüger as Sanna KrügerDas Grosse Spiel as Mrs. KlebuchLaugh Bajazzo as EmeliaSky Without Stars as Mother Mathilde KaminskiThe Story of Anastasia as Mrs. Bäumle