Esther Carena
Actor
Biography
The daughter of a German father and Spanish mother, she studied medicine for one semester and trained in an Italian acrobat troupe. Until 1916 she lived mostly in Italy and performed there in stage sketches. In 1916 she came to Germany and was discovered by Swedish film actor and director Nils Olaf Chrisander. She was presented as a heroine in thrillers, dramas, and melodramas that were staged by Harry Piel at the end of the First World War. She designed many of her own costumes. In 1924 she married the set designer Franz Schroedter and retired from films.
Filmography
Women Who Shouldn't Get Married
as Ada Haller 1919
Zur Strecke gebracht
1917
Das Gift der Odawara
1918
Die Geschichte eines Spitzentuches
1918
Die sprechende Hand
1918
Der Schrei des Gewissens
1920
Ich klage an
1919
Wenn Colombine winkt
1920
Die Diktatur der Liebe. 1. Die böse Lust
1921
Die von der Liebe leben
1919
Die Diktatur der Liebe. 2. Die Welt ohne Liebe
1921
Die Peitsche
as Bert 1916
Der stumme Zeuge
1917
Das neue Paradies
1921
Der Frauenkönig
1923
The Vampire
1920