Iwa Wanja(1905-1991)
- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
During her long life, Iwa Wanja had a very varied career, as a silent
and talking pictures actress, as a professional horse rider and as a
writer. Not everybody can boast so many talents, she could! Born in
Karnobat, Bulgaria on 10-10-1905, she came to Berlin to perform as an
actress in the German capital. She appeared on the stage first and then
in the movies. She can be seen in twenty-two silent pictures, several
of which with Harry Liedtke. It is again
with Liedtke that she made her first talkie in 1930,
Der keusche Josef (1930) .
But she subsequently appeared in only seven more films, not because she
was unsuccessful, but because she had many feathers in her cap. First
she was a wonderful rider and with her horse Ispahan (and seven others)
she won no fewer than sixty competitions in the 1930's. Then, after the
second world war, she was a busy prolific playwright. In 1943, she
married composer 'Nobert Schultze' and until her death at the age of 85
she lived a happy life in Berlin.
