{{short description|Bulgarian actress (1905–1991)}} {{Infobox person | name = Iwa Wanja | image = Iwa Wanja by Suse Byk.jpg | caption = Iwa Wanja by Suse Byk, 1920s | birth_date = 10 October 1905 | birth_place = Karnobat, Bulgaria | death_date = {{death date and age|26 June 1991|10 October 1905}} | death_place = Berlin, Germany | occupation = Actress | image_size = | birth_name = Ivanka Nikolova Yanakieva | other_names = | years_active = 1925–1954 (film) | spouse = {{marriage|Norbert Schultze|1943}} | children = Norbert Schultze Jr., Kristian Schultze }} '''Iwa Wanja''' (born '''Ivanka Nikolova Yanakieva'''; 10 October 1905 – 26 June 1991) was a Bulgarian actress based in Germany.<ref>Kester p.208</ref> She moved to Berlin to pursue her career, appearing in around thirty German films. She was married to Norbert Schultze, German composer, best remembered for having written the melody of the World War II classic Lili Marleen.
==Life and career== In 1937, Wanja appeared in the Nazi propaganda film, ''Urlaub auf Ehrenwort'' (''Holiday on Parole'', also known as ''Furlough on Parole'').<ref>Giesen, Rolf. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=lLmJCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Iwa+Wanja&pg=PA228 Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography]'', p. 227. Jefferson, North Carolina, McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2003.</ref>
Sometime around 1943, she wed German film composer Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Schultze. They had two sons together. During their marriage, she penned the libretti for several of his compositions for the stage.<ref>Letellier, Robert Ignatius. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=wSfXCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Iwa+Wanja&pg=PA773 Operetta: A Sourcebook]'', Vol. II, p. 773. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars, 2015.</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''Women of Luxury'' (1925) * ''A Sister of Six'' (1926) * ''The Woman's Crusade'' (1926) * ''I Liked Kissing Women'' (1926) * ''Weekend Magic'' (1927) * ''The Long Intermission'' (1927) * ''The Marriage Nest'' (1927) * ''The Prince's Child'' (1927) * ''Girls, Beware!'' (1928) * ''The President'' (1928) * ''The House Without Men'' (1928) * ''Polish Economy'' (1928) * ''Dear Homeland'' (1929) * ''The Right of the Unborn'' (1929) * ''From a Bachelor's Diary'' (1929) * ''Josef the Chaste'' (1930) * ''The Court Concert'' (1936) * ''Captain Bay-Bay'' (1953) * ''A Life for Do'' (1954)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Bernadette Kester. ''Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933)''. Amsterdam University Press, 2003.
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0911156}}
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