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The son of Gerson von Bleichroeder, Hans von Bleichröder (1856–1917), was not alive in 1920 to marry Maria Orska. The marriage certificate says Johanns (Hanns) von Bleichröder (jr), born 1886, married Maria Orska. He was the son of Hans von Bleichröder (1856–1917) and his mistress (later wife) Maria Luise Brebeck. See also Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch, pages 79-80 (https://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/periodical/pageview/1250416)
 
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{{short description|German actress}}
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|name = Maria Orska
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|image = Maria Orska ca 1920.jpg
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|caption = Maria Orska on promotional postcard from {{circa}} 1920.<br>Photographed by A. Macsigay, Hamburg. Card published by Photochemie, Berlin.
|caption = Maria Orska on promotional postcard from {{circa}} 1920.<br/>Photographed by A. Macsigay, Hamburg. Card published by Photochemie, Berlin.
|birth_name = Rachel Blindermann
|birth_name = Rachel Blindermann
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|3|16|mf=y}}
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|3|16|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Mykolaiv]], [[Ukraine]]
|birth_place = [[Mykolaiv]], Russian Empire, today in [[Ukraine]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1930|5|16|1893|3|16|mf=y}}
|death_date = {{death date and age|1930|5|16|1893|3|16|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]
|death_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austria]]
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|other_names = Maria Daisy Orska
|ethnicity = [[Jewish]], [[Ukrainian people]]
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|spouse = Hans von Bleichröder (23 January 1888 – 1938)
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|alias = Maria Daisy Orska
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|relatives = Gabryela Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda and Edwin Orska
|notable role =
|academyawards =
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|spouse = Hans von Bleichröder (January 23/1888 - 1938
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'''Siblings''' = Gabryela Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda and Edwin Orska
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'''Maria Orska''' ({{lang-ru|Мария Орская}}; March 16, 1893 - May 16, 1930) was an important actress of the German theater and cinema in the 1920s.
'''Maria Orska''' ({{lang-uk|Марія Орська}}; {{lang-ru|Мария Орская}}; 16 March 1893 – 16 May 1930) was an important actress of the German theater and cinema in the 1920s.


Maria Orska was born as '''Rachel Blindermann''' in 1893, of a [[Ukrainian-Jewish]] family, in a city of [[Mykolaiv]] ({{lang-ru|Nikolaev}}), not far from Odessa, in what is now Ukraine, at the time a part of [[Russian Empire]]. Just before World War I Maria Orska moved to [[Wien]], Hamburg and Berlin in 1915. She spoke fluently German, French, Italian, Russian and Polish.
Maria Orska was born as '''Rachel Blindermann''' in 1893, of a [[Jewish]] family, in a city of [[Mykolaiv]] ({{lang-ru|Nikolaev}}), not far from Odesa, in what is now Ukraine, at the time a part of [[Russian Empire]]. Just before World War I Maria Orska moved to [[Wien]], Hamburg and Berlin in 1915. She spoke fluently German, French, Italian, Russian and Polish.
Eldest child of Habrán Moiseybich Blindermann (Lawyer) and Augusta Frankfurter.
Eldest child of Habrán Moiseyvich Blindermann (Lawyer) and Augusta Frankfurter.


In Berlin, Maria Orska worked with Rudolph Bernauer in the Hebbel Theater, [[Max Reinhardt (theater director)|Max Reinhardt]] and was famous for her parts in theater plays by [[Strindberg]], [[Frank Wedekind|Wedekind]] and [[Pirandello]]. She also gained national popularity in Germany for her film parts, although theater was always more important to her. Her first movie ''Dämon und Mensch'' (1915) was produced by [[Jules Greenbaum]], one of the pioniers of the German cinema, who discovered cinema during his 20 years long stay in Chicago and migrated back to Germany in 1895. Most of her movies were produced by Alfred Maack, director and producer employed by Greenbaum. She was sometimes credited in films and film publicity materials as Maria Daisy Orska.
In Berlin, Maria Orska worked with [[Rudolf Bernauer]] in the [[Hebbel Theater]], [[Max Reinhardt (theater director)|Max Reinhardt]] and was famous for her parts in theater plays by [[Strindberg]], [[Frank Wedekind|Wedekind]] and [[Luigi Pirandello|Pirandello]]. She also gained national popularity in Germany for her film parts, although theater was always more important to her. Her first movie ''Dämon und Mensch'' (1915) was produced by [[Jules Greenbaum]], one of the pioneers of the German cinema, who discovered cinema during his 20 years long stay in Chicago and migrated back to Germany in 1895. Most of her movies were produced by Alfred Maack, director and producer employed by Greenbaum. She was sometimes credited in films and film publicity materials as Maria Daisy Orska.


[[Oskar Kokoschka]] drew in 1922, a famous portrait of her, now kept as a lithograph in collections of several museums. Orska married an important Jewish banker from Berlin in November 12/1920, much older than she was, Baron Hans von Bleichröder (son of [[Gerson 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. His morphine addiction is thought to have made him suicidal.
[[Oskar Kokoschka]] drew in 1922, a famous portrait of her, now kept as a lithograph in collections of several museums. Orska married an important Jewish banker from Berlin in 12. November, 1920, Baron Hans von Bleichröder (grandson of [[Gerson 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. His [[morphine]] addiction is thought to have made him suicidal.


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'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.


His youngest brother, Edwin Orska, aviator of the Russian Empire Air Force, survived the Bolshevik Revolution and lived in Berlin until 1937. He married in Ecuador South America in 1938. Died in Quito in 1966 at the age of 71.
Her youngest brother, Edwin Orska, aviator of the Russian Empire Air Force, survived the Bolshevik Revolution and lived in Berlin until 1937. He married in Ecuador South America in 1938. He died in Quito in 1966 at the age of 71.


Maria Orska had an enormous popularity in Central Europe of the 1920s. Her stage performances at the Hebbel-Theater in the [[Kreuzberg]] district were seen as extraordinary by the Berlin audience of that era. Her photographs appeared on covers of magazines, postcards with her portraits were distributed all over that part of the continent.
Maria Orska enjoyed enormous popularity in Central Europe in the 1920s. Her stage performances at the Hebbel-Theater in the [[Kreuzberg]] district were seen as extraordinary by the Berlin audience of that era. Her photographs appeared on covers of magazines, postcards with her portraits were distributed all over that part of the continent.


Maria Orska committed suicide in 1930, in Vienna. Some people speculate that an addiction to morphine had a decisive influence on the last years of her life.
Maria Orska committed suicide in 1930, in Vienna. Some people speculate that an addiction to morphine had a decisive influence on the last years of her life.


== Filmography ==
== Filmography ==
[[Image:Maria Orska by Kokoschka.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Maria Orska - portrait by Oskar Kokoschka, 1922]]
[[Image:Maria Orska by Kokoschka.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Maria Orska – portrait by Oskar Kokoschka, 1922]]
* 1915 ''Dämon und Mensch''
* 1915 ''Dämon und Mensch''
* 1915/1916 ''Das tanzende Herz''
* 1915/1916 ''Das tanzende Herz''
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* 1916 ''Der lebende Tote''
* 1916 ''Der lebende Tote''
* 1916 ''Der Sumpf''
* 1916 ''Der Sumpf''
* ''[[The Confessions of the Green Mask]]'' (1916)
* 1916 ''Das Geständnis der grünen Maske''
* 1916 ''Adamants letztes Rennen''
* 1916 ''Adamants letztes Rennen''
* 1917 ''Die schwarze Loo''
* 1917 ''Die schwarze Loo''
* ''[[The Last Hour (1921 film)|The Last Hour]] '' (1921)
* 1920 ''Die letzte Stunde. Der Tag eines Gerichtes in 5 Verhandlungen''
* 1920/1921 ''Die Bestie im Menschen''
* 1920/1921 ''Die Bestie im Menschen''
* 1920/1921 ''Der Streik der Diebe''
* 1920/1921 ''Der Streik der Diebe''
* ''[[Fridericus Rex]]'' (1922)
* 1922 ''Opfer der Leidenschaft''
* 1922 ''[[Opfer der Leidenschaft]]''
* 1922/1923 ''Fridericus Rex. 3. Sanssouci''
* 1922/1923 ''Fridericus Rex. 3. Sanssouci''


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|author=
|title=Tyrolese Dynamite
|title=Tyrolese Dynamite
|date=1926-02-22
|date=22 February 1926
|work=[[Time Magazine]]
|work=[[Time Magazine]]
|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,721643,00.html
|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,721643,00.html
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080731033751/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,721643,00.html
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|accessdate=2008-08-09
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|accessdate=9 August 2008
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* [http://wwii-server.history.fsu.edu/scripts/as_web5.exe?Command=Bookmark&File=hine-letters.ask&Name=4827%20-%20julius%20chapter%20chronicles Testimony about Maria Orska's lover Julius Heinrich Koritschoner and the society of artists and financiers in Vienna which Maria Orska was a part of]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060906134649/http://wwii-server.history.fsu.edu/scripts/as_web5.exe?Command=Bookmark&File=Hine-Letters.ask&Name=4827%20%2d%20julius%20chapter%20chronicles Testimony about Maria Orska's lover Julius Heinrich Koritschoner and the society of artists and financiers in Vienna which Maria Orska was a part of]
* [http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~law00102 Description of the Maria Orska suicide presently at Harvard University, School of Law, in Wood Detective Agency. Records, 1865–1945 ]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070129114339/http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~law00102 Description of the Maria Orska suicide presently at Harvard University, School of Law, in Wood Detective Agency. Records, 1865–1945 ]
* [http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=14089 Postcards]
* [http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=14089 Postcards]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1335202/] IMDB
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1335202/] IMDB
*[https://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2017/07/maria-orska.html?fbclid=IwAR04kSkkoH4edehB7_6CbA8eMsbWzv9IF60PNiK0wsapbnPlAJSa7c12FjA Maria Orska bio on European Film Star Postcards]
*


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| NAME =Orska, Maria
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = German actor
| DATE OF BIRTH =March 16, 1893
| PLACE OF BIRTH =[[Mykolaiv]], [[Ukraine]]
| DATE OF DEATH =May 16, 1930
| PLACE OF DEATH =[[Vienna]], [[Austria]]
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Latest revision as of 15:37, 13 June 2024

Maria Orska
Maria Orska on promotional postcard from c. 1920.
Photographed by A. Macsigay, Hamburg. Card published by Photochemie, Berlin.
Born
Rachel Blindermann

(1893-03-16)16 March 1893
Mykolaiv, Russian Empire, today in Ukraine
Died16 May 1930(1930-05-16) (aged 37)
Vienna, Austria
Other namesMaria Daisy Orska
SpouseHans von Bleichröder (23 January 1888 – 1938)
RelativesGabryela Marchesa di Serra Mantschedda and Edwin Orska

Maria Orska (Ukrainian: Марія Орська; Russian: Мария Орская; 16 March 1893 – 16 May 1930) was an important actress of the German theater and cinema in the 1920s.

Maria Orska was born as Rachel Blindermann in 1893, of a Jewish family, in a city of Mykolaiv (Russian: Nikolaev), not far from Odesa, in what is now Ukraine, at the time a part of Russian Empire. Just before World War I Maria Orska moved to Wien, Hamburg and Berlin in 1915. She spoke fluently German, French, Italian, Russian and Polish. Eldest child of Habrán Moiseyvich Blindermann (Lawyer) and Augusta Frankfurter.

In Berlin, Maria Orska worked with Rudolf Bernauer in the Hebbel Theater, Max Reinhardt and was famous for her parts in theater plays by Strindberg, Wedekind and Pirandello. She also gained national popularity in Germany for her film parts, although theater was always more important to her. Her first movie Dämon und Mensch (1915) was produced by Jules Greenbaum, one of the pioneers of the German cinema, who discovered cinema during his 20 years long stay in Chicago and migrated back to Germany in 1895. Most of her movies were produced by Alfred Maack, director and producer employed by Greenbaum. She was sometimes credited in films and film publicity materials as Maria Daisy Orska.

Oskar Kokoschka drew in 1922, a famous portrait of her, now kept as a lithograph in collections of several museums. Orska married an important Jewish banker from Berlin in 12. November, 1920, Baron Hans von Bleichröder (grandson of Gerson 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. His morphine addiction is thought to have made him suicidal.

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.

Her youngest brother, Edwin Orska, aviator of the Russian Empire Air Force, survived the Bolshevik Revolution and lived in Berlin until 1937. He married in Ecuador South America in 1938. He died in Quito in 1966 at the age of 71.

Maria Orska enjoyed enormous popularity in Central Europe in the 1920s. Her stage performances at the Hebbel-Theater in the Kreuzberg district were seen as extraordinary by the Berlin audience of that era. Her photographs appeared on covers of magazines, postcards with her portraits were distributed all over that part of the continent.

Maria Orska committed suicide in 1930, in Vienna. Some people speculate that an addiction to morphine had a decisive influence on the last years of her life.

Filmography

[edit]
Maria Orska – portrait by Oskar Kokoschka, 1922
[edit]
  • Maria Orska at IMDb
  • "Tyrolese Dynamite". Time Magazine. 22 February 1926. Archived from the original on 31 July 2008. Retrieved 9 August 2008.
  • Testimony about Maria Orska's lover Julius Heinrich Koritschoner and the society of artists and financiers in Vienna which Maria Orska was a part of
  • Description of the Maria Orska suicide presently at Harvard University, School of Law, in Wood Detective Agency. Records, 1865–1945
  • Postcards
  • [1] IMDB
  • Maria Orska bio on European Film Star Postcards
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