Maria Matray

Maria Matray
Born	14 July 1907 Niederschönhausen, German Empire
Died	30 October 1993 (aged 86) Munich, Germany
Other names	Maria Stern; Maria Solveg
Occupation	Film actor, screenwriter, choreographer
Years active	1923–1993

Maria Matray (July 14, 1907 – October 30, 1993) was a German screenwriter and film actress. Matray became a star of late Weimar cinema. Following the Nazi takeover in 1933, the Jewish Matray went into exile – initially in France and Britain before moving on the United States. She developed a new career as a choreographer and writer. She later returned to Germany post-Second World War, where she died in 1993.^[1]

Selected filmography

Actress

• The Master of Nuremberg (1927)
• Inherited Passions (1929)
• The Son of the White Mountain (1930)
• Never Trust a Woman (1930)
• Retreat on the Rhine (1930)
• Elisabeth of Austria (1931)
• Road to Rio (1931)
• The Sorceror (1932)
• A Man with Heart (1933)

Screenwriter

• Murder in the Music Hall (1946)
• The Night of the Storm (1957)
• The Night Before the Premiere (1959)
• The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962)
• Maximilian von Mexiko (1970, TV series)

References

Bibliography

• Weniger, Kay. 'Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben ...' Lexikon der aus Deutschland und Österreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945: Eine Gesamtübersicht. ACABUS Verlag, 2011.

External links

• Maria Matray on IMDb