Codice albumGBB-F-003766

Codice inventarioGBB-F-003766-0000

1920 ca., Germany : The german-polish silent movie and theatre actress MARIA ORSKA (1893 - 1930), photo by A. Binder. In Berlin, Maria Orska worked with Max Reinhardt and was famous for her parts in theater plays by Strindberg, Wedekind and Pirandello. Oskar Kokoschka drew in 1922, a famous portrait of her. Orska married an important Jewish banker from Berlin Baron Hans von Bleichröder and took a name of Baroness von Bleichröder. They were divorced in 1925. Maria Orska's lover, a wealthy Jewish industrialist and geologist Julius Heinrich Koritschoner from Vienna, shot himself in Constantinople in 1928, writing before death a letter to Orska. Maria Orska's sister Gabryela Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda married to an Italian aristocrat, committed suicide in 1926 by hanging herself on a curtain rope in a Berlin hotel, after a heated argument with Maria. Maria Orska committed suicide in 1930, in Vienna. Some people speculate that an addiction to morphine.

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