Tilla Durieux

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Tilla Durieux, 1905
Tilla Durieux, 1905

Tilla Durieux (August 18, 1880February 21, 1971) was a renowned German actress of the first decades of the 20th century.

Born Odilie Godefroy, she trained in Vienna, her native town and got her first engagement in Breslau. Later she worked with Max Reinhardt and Erwin Piscator in Berlin.

In 1904, Durieux married the Berlin Secession painter Eugen Spiro, and after their divorce, she remarried in 1910 the successful art dealer and editor Paul Cassirer, who committed suicide in a room next to the court room that pronounced her divorce. Durieux remarried soon afterwards Ludwig Katzenellenbogen.

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