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- Birth nameLina Salomon
- Lina Salten was born on February 1, 1890 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was an actress and writer, known for Cornelie Arendt (1920), Die Glocken der Katharinenkirche (1918) and Die Geisterjagd (1918). She died on January 15, 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Her film career diminished at the beginning of the 20s when new stars appeared on the screen. Afterwards she concentrated to the theater again but there her career came to end too.
- She became established as movie actress and she impersonated numerous role in movies like "Arno Starks Kraft" (1918), "Weisses Gold" (1918) and "Eine unbedeutende Frau" (1919).
- As a Jew she did not have any future in Germany from 1933, finally she was transported to Auschwitz where she died, probably by gassing.
- After an acting education by Max Martersteig she made her stage debut in Hagen in 1910. It followed other theater engagements which led her finally to Berlin in 1912. There she became a busy stage actress.
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