Maria Bard

Maria Bard (7 July 1900 – 8 April 1944) was a German stage actress, who made a handful of films in the silent era for Rimax, her first husband Wilhelm Graaff's company. By 1930, her marriage with Graaff was over, and she appeared with Werner Krauss in the stage production Der Kaiser von Amerika or The King of America and the two became involved. Unfortunately, Krauss' wife discovered their affair and committed suicide; a year later, in 1931, Maria Bard married Werner Krauss. Her third husband was actor Hannes Stelzer. Bard committed suicide on 8 April 1944, apparently for political reasons. On December 27, 1944, toward the end of World War II, Stelzer who was in the Luftwaffe at this point, died when his plane was shot down over the Eastern front.

References

• Thomas Elsaesser and Michael Wedel, The BFI Companion to German Cinema, British Film Institute: London, England, 1999.

External links

• Maria Bard at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Bard, Maria
Alternative names
Short description	German actor
Date of birth	7 July 1900
Place of birth	Schwerin
Date of death	8 April 1944
Place of death	Berlin