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.
Till, der Junge von nebenan(1967)
Jedermannstraße 11(1962)
Jede Nacht in einem anderen Bett(1957)
Ein Leben für Do(1954)as Wirtin
Es kommt ein Tag(1950)
War es der im 3. Stock?(1939)as Olga Filimon
Furlough on Parole(1938)as Ilonka