- Born
- Died
- Birth nameIda Margaretha Weissbeck
- Nickname
- Iduschka
- Ida Orloff was born on February 16, 1889 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was an actress, known for Baccarat (1919) and Atlantis (1913). She died on April 9, 1945 in Tullnerbach, Lower Austria, Austria.
- Buried in Pressbaum, Austria.
- Because she had left for Norway without permission she was fired by Hugo Thimig, the manager of the Burgtheatre. But her contract didn't exclude appearances in movies and she received damages of 8.000 crowns.
- It was discovered years later that Orloff had been a secret lover and an inspirational muse for Gerhart Hauptmann, who won the 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature. Secretly he wrote a play especially for her, "Und Pippa tanzt!" (1906). They started an affair and from Hauptmann's diary we know that he watched fascinated when she undressed for him on Match 27th, 1906. But Hauptmann had recently remarried and would not leave his wife Margaretha Marschalk. He considered her a little devil but he found it hard to break the spell that seemed to be put on him. They spent five days together at Göhren and Rügen in June, 1906 and possibly Hauptmann's wife knew about it and tolerated it.
- She got acting lessons at a theater school before she entered the stage in 1905.
- In 1906 she met the writer Gerhart Hauptmann and she enters a serious relationship with him at the age of 16 and she became his muse.
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