Greta Schröder was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 actress. She is best known for the role of Thomas Hutter's wife and victim to Count Orlok

Count Orlok

Count Orlok is a fictional character portrayed by Max Schreck in the silent movie Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens...

 in the 1922

1922 in film

-Events:* June 11 - United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film....

 silent film Nosferatu. In the fictionalized 2000

2000 in film

The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....

 film, Shadow of the Vampire

Shadow of the Vampire

Shadow of the Vampire is a 2000 horror film directed by E. Elias Merhige and written by Steven Katz, and starring John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, and Udo Kier. The film is a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, directed by F. W....

, she is portrayed as having been a famous actress during the making of Nosferatu, but in fact she was little known. The bulk of her career was during the 1920s, and she continued to act well into the 1950s, but by the 1930s her roles had diminished to only occasional appearances. Following a failed marriage with struggling actor Ernst Matray, she was married to film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 Paul Wegener

Paul Wegener

Paul Wegener was a German actor, writer and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.-Stage and early film career:...

 until his death in 1948.

Filmography

as Actress:

• 1913: Die Insel der Seeligen
• 1920: Arme Violetta
• 1920: Der Golem-Wie er in die Welt kam
  The Golem: How He Came Into the World
  The Golem: How He Came Into the World is a 1920 silent horror film by Paul Wegener. It was directed by Carl Boese and Wegener, written by Wegener and Henrik Galeen, and starred Wegener as the golem. The script was adapted from the 1915 novel The Golem by Gustav Meyrink...
  
  
• 1920: Die geschlossene Kette
• 1921: Der verlorene Schatten
• 1921: Zirkus des Lebens
• 1921: Marizza,genannt die Schmugglermadonna
  Marizza
  Marizza is a 1922 silent German drama film directed by F. W. Murnau. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Tzwetta Tzatschewa - Marizza* Adele Sandrock - Mrs...
  
  
• 1921: Nosferatu-eine Symphonie des Grauens
• 1922: Es leuchtet meine Liebe
• 1923: Brüder
• 1923: Paganini
• 1930: Die zwölfte Stunde - Eine Nacht des Grauens
• 1937: Victoria the Great
• 1937: Sixty glorious Years
• 1943: Großstadtmelodie
• 1943: Wildvogel
• 1944: Kolberg
  Kolberg (film)
  Kolberg is a 1945 German propaganda film directed by Veit Harlan and Wolfgang Liebeneiner. It opened on January 30, 1945 simultaneously in Berlin and to the crew of the naval base at La Rochelle. It was also screened in the Reich chancellery after the broadcast of Hitler's last radio address on...
  
  
• 1951: Maria Theresia
• 1953: Die Gefangene des Maharadscha
• 1953: Pünktchen und Anton

as Writer:

• 1915: Zucker und Zimt
• 1916: Das Phantom der Oper

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