{{short description|German actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = Erna Morena 1925 Alexander Binder 002.jpg | caption = Photo by [[Alexander Binder (photographer)|Alexander Binder]], {{circa|1925}} | name = Erna Morena | birth_name = Ernestine Maria Fuchs | birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|4|24|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Wörth am Main]], [[German Empire]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|7|20|1885|4|24|df=y}} | death_place = [[Munich]], [[West Germany]] | occupation = Actress, producer, screenwriter | years_active = 1910–1951 | spouse = {{marriage|Wilhelm Herzog|1915|1921|end=div}} | children = 1 }}
'''Erna Morena''' (born '''Ernestine Maria Fuchs'''; 24 April 1885 – 20 July 1962)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F2hXVQJ1Gf8C&pg=PA190|title=Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE) | volume = 7 |editor-first=Rudolf|editor-last=Vierhaus|year=2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter | location = Munich | isbn=978-3-11-094026-8}}</ref> was a German film actress, film producer, and screenwriter of the [[silent film|silent era]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.filmportal.de/person/erna-morena_871b092a250046d5876202905db6f8e1 |title=Erna Morena |work=Film Portal |access-date=4 January 2019}}</ref> She appeared in 104 films between 1913 and 1951.
==Biography== Ernestine Maria Fuchs was born into the middle-class family of Eugenie Fuchs (née. Seyler, 1862–1951) and Friedrich Fuchs (1859–1895) on 24 April 1885. She had a younger brother, Friedrich Fuchs (1890–1948), who became a [[Clemens Brentano|Brentano]] researcher.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Erna-Morena-Schauspielerin/6000000109107266011|title=Erna Morena, Schauspielerin|website=geni_family_tree}}</ref>
Fuchs went to [[Munich]] at age 17 to attend the school of applied arts. She later spent half a year in [[Paris]] before moving to [[Berlin]] in 1909, where she worked as a nurse.
She took lessons at the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin, and was hired by [[Max Reinhardt]] in 1910 as an actress. The following year she worked there in small roles, and began using the stage name Erna Morena.
She made her film debut in 1913 in ''The Sphinx'' by [[Eugen Illés]] for the newly founded film production company Literaria Film by [[Alfred Duskes]]. Her salary there was 500 marks per month,<ref>Herbert Birett: ''Lichtspiele. Der Kino in Deutschland bis 1914.'' Q-Verlag, München 1994, S. XXXV.</ref> or about 2,016 euros.
[[File:Erna Morena 1925 Alexander Binder 001.jpg|thumb|right|Erna Morena photographed by [[Alexander Binder (photographer)|Alexander Binder]], 1925]]
Morena worked under well-known directors such as [[Paul Leni]], [[Richard Oswald]], [[Robert Wiene]], [[F. W. Murnau]], and [[Georg Wilhelm Pabst]], and acted alongside notable actors such as [[Conrad Veidt]], [[Emil Jannings]], [[Reinhold Schünzel]], and [[Werner Krauss]].
Morena also tried to be a producer: in 1918 she founded Erna Morena Film GmbH in Berlin, supported by a few friends as partners, with whom she produced the silent films [[Colomba (1918 film)|Colomba]] (1918) and ''Die 999. Nacht'' (1920).
From 1915 to 1921 Erna Morena was married to the writer Wilhelm Herzog. The couple had one child, daughter Eva-Maria Herzog (1915–2007).
Morena played the role of the wife of the Konsistorialrat in the Nazi propaganda film [[Jud Süß (1940 film)|Jud Süß]]. Her final film appearance was in [[Immortal Beloved (1951 film)|Immortal Beloved]] (1951).
Morena died on 20 July 1962 and was buried next to her mother at the Winthirfriedhof in Munich-Neuhausen. Morena's daughter, Eva-Maria, was later buried with them upon her death in 2007.
==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''[[Frau Eva]]'' (1916) * ''[[Lulu (1917 film)|Lulu]]'' (1917) * ''[[The Ring of Giuditta Foscari]]'' (1917) * ''[[Colomba (1918 film)|Colomba]]'' (1918) * ''[[Diary of a Lost Woman]]'' (1918) * ''[[The Skull of Pharaoh's Daughter]]'' (1920) * ''[[Figures of the Night]]'' (1920) * ''[[Algol (film)|Algol]]'' (1920) * ''[[Kurfürstendamm (film)|Kurfürstendamm]]'' (1920) * ''[[The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore]]'' (1921) * ''[[You Are the Life]]'' (1921) * ''[[The Maharaja's Favourite Wife]]'' (1921) * ''[[The Indian Tomb (1921 film)|The Indian Tomb]]'' (1921) * ''[[Journey Into the Night]]'' (1921) * ''[[The Conspiracy in Genoa]]'' (1921) * ''[[The Earl of Essex (film)|The Earl of Essex]]'' (1922) * ''[[De bruut]]'' (1922) * ''[[Louise de Lavallière (film)|Louise de Lavallière]]'' (1922) * ''[[Fridericus Rex]]'' (1922) * ''[[Gold and Luck]]'' (1923) * ''[[The Great Industrialist]]'' (1923) * ''[[William Tell (1923 film)|William Tell]]'' (1923) * ''[[Mountain of Destiny]]'' (1924) * ''[[Mother and Child (1924 film)|Mother and Child]]'' (1924) * ''[[Wallenstein (film)|Wallenstein]]'' (1925) * ''[[Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand (1925 film)|Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand]]'' (1925) * ''[[The Iron Bride]]'' (1925) * ''[[In the Valleys of the Southern Rhine]]'' (1925) * ''[[Bismarck (1925 film)|Bismarck]]'' (1925) * ''[[An Artist of Life]]'' (1925) * ''[[The Marriage Swindler (1925 film)|The Marriage Swindler]]'' (1925) * ''[[One Does Not Play with Love]]'' (1926) * ''[[The Adventurers (1926 film)|The Adventurers]]'' (1926) * ''[[The Grey House]]'' (1926) * ''[[The Right to Live (1927 film)|The Right to Live]]'' (1927) * ''[[The Trial of Donald Westhof]]'' (1927) * ''[[Bismarck 1862–1898]]'' (1927) * ''[[Grand Hotel (1927 film)|Grand Hotel]]'' (1927) * ''[[Only a Viennese Woman Kisses Like That]]'' (1928) * ''[[The Fate of the House of Habsburg]]'' (1928) * ''[[Youthful Indiscretion]]'' (1929) * ''[[Somnambul]]'' (1929) * ''[[Misled Youth]]'' (1929) * ''[[The Customs Judge]]'' (1929) * ''[[The Love Market]]'' (1930) * ''[[Scapa Flow (film)|Scapa Flow]]'' (1930) * ''[[The Song of the Nations]]'' (1931) * ''[[Ash Wednesday (1931 film)|Ash Wednesday]]'' (1931) * ''[[The First Right of the Child]]'' (1932) * ''[[A Night in Paradise (1932 film)|A Night in Paradise]]'' (1932) * ''[[The Eleven Schill Officers (1932 film)|The Eleven Schill Officers]]'' (1932) * ''[[So Ended a Great Love]]'' (1934) * ''[[Between Two Hearts]]'' (1934) * ''[[Elisabeth and the Fool]]'' (1934) * ''[[Song of Farewell]]'' (1934) * ''[[What Am I Without You]]'' (1934) * ''[[Farewell Waltz (film)|Farewell Waltz]]'' (1934) * ''[[Pygmalion (1935 film)|Pygmalion]]'' (1935) * ''[[Victoria (1935 film)|Victoria]]'' (1935) * ''[[Between the Parents]]'' (1938) * ''[[Jud Süß (1940 film)|Jud Süß]]'' (1940) * ''The Enchanted Princess'' (1940) * ''[[Immortal Beloved (1951 film)|Immortal Beloved]]'' (1951) {{div col end}}
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