Maria Matray


Maria Matray was a German screenwriter and film actress. She became a star of late Weimar cinema.

Biography

Following the Nazi takeover in 1933, Matray, who was Jewish, went into exile – initially in France and Britain before moving to the United States. She developed a new career as a choreographer and writer. She later returned to Germany after the Second World War, where she died in 1993.
Maria Matray was born in Niederschönhausen. She was the daughter of engineer and later director of AEG Georg Stern and his wife Lisbeth, who was the younger sister of artist Käthe Kollwitz. Matray's older sisters were actress Johanna Hofer and dancer Katta Sterna. Hofer's father was Jewish and her mother was Lutheran.

Selected filmography

Actress

  • The Master of Nuremberg
  • Linden Lady on the Rhine
  • Inherited Passions
  • The Son of the White Mountain
  • Never Trust a Woman
  • Retreat on the Rhine
  • Elisabeth of Austria
  • Road to Rio
  • The Ringer
  • Secret Agent
  • Distorting at the Resort
  • ''A Man with Heart''

    Screenwriter

  • Murder in the Music Hall
  • Invitation Playhouse: Mind Over Murder: The Last Act
  • Der König mit dem Regenschirm – based on an operetta by Ralph Benatzky
  • Abschiedsvorstellung
  • My Father, the Actor
  • The Night of the Storm – based on a novel by Klaus Hellmer
  • '
  • '
  • The Night Before the Premiere
  • ' – based on a play by and
  • Waldhausstraße 20
  • The Happy Years of the Thorwalds – based on Time and the Conways by J. B. Priestley
  • Das Kriminalmuseum
  • : Der Fall Krantz
  • ' –
  • '
  • Ein langer Tag
  • Der Fall Harry Domela –
  • ' –
  • ' –
  • Oberst Wennerström –
  • Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte –
  • Standgericht
  • ' –
  • Der Fall Lothar Malskat –
  • Das Millionending – based on a story by
  • Der Panamaskandal –
  • Affäre Dreyfus –
  • Der Senator –
  • '
  • Maximilian von Mexiko –
  • Millionen nach Maß
  • Der Hitler/Ludendorff-Prozeß –
  • Manolescu – Die fast wahre Biographie eines Gauners –
  • Doppelspiel in Paris –
  • Sonderdezernat K1
  • Agent aus der Retorte –
  • : Reise nach Stockholm
  • Wie starb Dag Hammerskjöld? –
  • Als wär's ein Stück von mir – based on the autobiography of Carl Zuckmayer
  • ' – based on short stories by O. Henry, P. G. Wodehouse and W. Somerset Maugham
  • The Old Fox: Der schöne Alex
  • Auf Schusters Rappen
  • Sun, Wine and Hard Nuts
  • Ein Winter auf Mallorca
  • Crooks in Paradise
  • Im Schatten von Gestern – screenplay with Nathaniel Gutman
  • Wie das Leben so spielt
  • ''Jungbrunnen''