Elsa Krueger

Biography

In 1893, somewhere amid the vast snows of the Russian Empire, Elsa Krueger drew her first breath—little imagining that her face would one day flicker across three different decades of cinema. Silent-era audiences first noticed her in 1914’s Mute Witnesses, and by 1927 she had slipped into the urbane shadows of Die Villa im Tiergarten. Talkies arrived, yet Krueger’s screen presence endured: in 1934 she patrolled the frontier in Border Patrol, her voice now carrying the same quiet authority her eyes had once conveyed without a word. Fate brought her final curtain down in Germany, 1941, sealing a career that spanned tsarist silence, Weimar glitter, and the rise of sound.