Adele Sandrock

Adele Sandrock as Marguerite Gautier in the stage version of The Lady of the Camellias (1898).

Adele Sandrock (19 August 1863 – 30 August 1937) was a German actress. After a successful theatrical career, she became one of the first German film stars.

Sandrock was born as Adele Feldern-Förster in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. After a rocky childhood, she went to Berlin at the age of fifteen to become an actress. Her first major role was in Mutter und Sohn by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. She achieved success in the town of Meiningen, where her first role was Luise in Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe. In 1889 she moved to Vienna, where she created a number of major roles for modern playwrights including Henrik Ibsen and Arthur Schnitzler, with whom she had a notoriously stormy affair.

Berlin memorial plaque, Leibnizstraße 60 in Berlin-Charlottenburg

In 1911 Sandrock made her silent film debut in Marianne, ein Weib aus dem Volk, a short subject. She acted in more than 140 films, working with a number of directors including Reinhold Schünzel and Hans Hinrich. Her autobiography, Mein Leben, was published in 1940.

Selected filmography

• Lady Hamilton (1921)
• Violet (1921)
• The Story of Christine von Herre (1921)
• The Black Panther (1921)
• Helena (1924)
• The Girl with a Patron (1925)
• Orphan of Lowood (1926)
• Assassination (1927)
• Rhenish Girls and Rhenish Wine (1927)
• Queen Louise (1927)
• The Mistress (1927)
• Leontine's Husbands (1928)
• Lotte (1928)
• Der Ladenprinz (1928)
• Misled Youth (1929)
• Katharina Knie (1929)
• My Daughter's Tutor (1929)
• Fräulein Else (1929)
• Danube Waltz (1930)
• The Great Longing (1930)
• The Tender Relatives (1930)
• Without Meyer, No Celebration is Complete (1931)
• Her Majesty the Barmaid (1931)
• A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)
• The Victor (1932)
• The English Marriage (1934)

External links

• Adele Sandrock at IMDb
• Virtual History - Tobacco cards