Hilde von Stolz

Hilde von Stolz (8 July 1903 in Segesvár, Nagy-Küküllő County, Austria-Hungary, now Romania – 16 December 1973 in West Berlin, West Germany) was an Austrian-German actress.

Von Stolz attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and made her debut at the local Kammerspielen. She subsequently performed at various theaters in Vienna and in the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin.

She made her debut in film in 1928 under the pseudonym "Helen Steels". That same year, she moved to Berlin. In her second film role, she played the lead role opposite Reinhold Schünzel in Don Juan in a Girls' School. Von Stolz began performing under her real name starting in 1933. She established herself as a major film actress although she had to be satisfied with major supporting roles that usually portrayed elegant ladies and femmes fatales such as the actress Lydia Link in The Dreamer.

Von Stolz had planned to emigrate from Germany but the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 frustrated those plans. During the war she worked in a number of Nazi propaganda films, the most widely known of these was her role as the wife of Duke Karl Alexander in Veit Harlan's Jud Süß (1940). After the war, she acted only rarely in films.

After her death in 1973, she was buried in the family vault.

Filmography

• 1928: Der Schulmeister vom Lichtenthal
• 1928: Don Juan in a Girls' School as Trude
• 1928: The Three Women of Urban Hell as Anuschka
• 1928: Hell in Frauensee
• 1929: Menschen im Feuer
• 1929: Heilige oder Dirne as Therese
• 1930: What Price Love?
• 1930: Troika as Natascha
• 1931: A Storm Over Zakopane as the paralytic young woman
• 1931: The Soaring Maiden as Else Brandt
• 1932: Der kleine Pit (Short film)
• 1933: Life Begins Tomorrow as Marie
• 1933: Mit Dir durch dick und dünn
• 1934: My Heart Calls You as Vera Valetti
• 1934: Maskerade as Gerda Harrandt
• 1934: Achtung! Wer kennt diese Frau?
• 1934: The Gentleman Without a Residence as Mrs. Mangold
• 1935: Asew as Nelly
• 1935: ... Just a comedian as Countess Karola von Röderau
• 1935: Es flüstert die Liebe
• 1935: The Love of the Maharaja as Daisy Atkins
• 1936: The Dreamer as Lydia Link
• 1936: Stronger Than Regulations as Mrs. Lörik
• 1936: Der Abenteurer von Paris
• 1936: Girls in White as Natalia the dancer
• 1936: Der Weg des Herzens / Prater
• 1936: Sein letztes Modell
• 1937: The Glass Ball as Nina Sylten
• 1937: When Women Keep Silent as Mira Mirella
• 1937: To New Shores as Fanny Hoyer
• 1938: Frühlingsluft
• 1938: Scheidungsreise
• 1938: Kleiner Mann – ganz groß
• 1939: Ins blaue Leben
• 1939: Castles in the Air as the singer
• 1939: The Fire Devil
• 1940: Herz geht vor Anker
• 1940: Jud Süß as Duke Karl Alexander's wife
• 1940: Der Weg ins Freie
• 1941: The Great King
• 1941: Tanz mit dem Kaiser
• 1942: Front Theatre
• 1942: With the Eyes of a Woman as Cora Solani
• 1942: Diesel as Mrs. von Lorrenz
• 1943: Münchhausen as Louise La Tour
• 1943: Die Gattin
• 1943: Die schwache Stunde
• 1944: Glück unterwegs
• 1945: Ich glaube an Dich
• 1945: Freunde
• 1947: Marriage in the Shadows as Greta Koch
• 1954: Love is Forever
• 1954: The Great Test as Mrs. Ermer
• 1956: Charley's Aunt as the Consul general's wife
• 1956: The Trapp Family as Baroness Mathilde
• 1956: Die Christel von der Post as Anni Klewinski
• 1958: Es war die erste Liebe