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.
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 in Heinrich von Kleist's in 1905 and as Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 1907. While still active on stage she appeared in her first film, the 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 Laugh Bajazzo (1943) as Emelia Sky Without Stars (1955) as Mother Mathilde Kaminski The Story of Anastasia (1956) as Mrs. Bäumle