Career
Unfortunately, Krauss" wife discovered their affair and committed suicide. A year later, in 1931, Maria Bard married Werner Krauss. Her third husband was actor Hannes Stelzer.
Bard committed suicide on 8 April 1944, apparently for political reasons.
On December 27, 1944, toward the end of World World War II, Stelzer who was in the Luftwaffe at this point, died when his plane was shot down over the Eastern front.