Ida Orloff

Career

She starred in the classic Danish silent film Atlantis which was based upon the 1912 novel by Gerhardt Hauptmann. On 9 April 1945, while the Battle of Vienna was raging only a few miles away, Ida Orloff committed suicide at her home in the suburb of Tullnerbach.

Achievements

• lieutenant was discovered years later that Orloff had been a secret lover and an inspirational muse for Hauptmann, who won the 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature.