- 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.
- With the rise of the National Socialist Ida Orloff emigrated with her second husband Franz Leppmann to Italy and later to England because her husband was no longer safe in Italy too. But finally she left her husband and their son and went back to Berlin to continue her stage career.
- Her mother married in second marriage Georg Siegler, Edler von Eberswald after Ida's father has died when she was four years old. They went to Austria where Ida grew up.
- Her father George Weissbeck, worked as a brewer in Russia when she was born.
- She earned additional money by giving acting lessons and by translating Russian literature.
- Her mother came from Heidelberg and nearly reached the age of ninety.
- In the 20s she was also engaged as a radio speaker for audio dramas where she remained active for many years.
- The Burgtheater was not enthusiastic about her engagement in the still frowned upon film business but Ida Orloff reacted with a public critic against the Burgtheater. This led to her dismissal.
- When she was thirteen she tried to drown herself. She was saved, but thoughts of suicide would return during her life.
- Her appearance in the first performance of "Feuer" by Cszokor at the Ronacher Varieté during a time off period in 1912 was considered scandalous for an actress of the Burgtheater.
- Her younger son Wolfgang Leppman became an eminent germanist. He was a professor at the University of Eugene, Oregon and the author of biographies of Goethe, Rilke and Hauptmann. He was known for his wit and irony and died in 2002.
- She continued from 1906 on her theater career successfully and she got engagements at the Lessing theater and at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
- On July 23th, 1907 she married a friend from her youth, Karl Satter, just to be able to enjoy more freedom without causing scandals. She divorced him on January 26th, 1908 because she had what she wanted - a married name on her passport - but against her own expectations they stayed together for 10 years. She bore him a son, Heinrich, on September 27th, 1908. As an adult he looked strikingly like the writer Gerhart Hauptmann who may have been his father.
- When the Russian army invaded Austria she was confident that she could talk to the soldiers and stop them from plundering, but when news went round that the Russians were extremely violent and raped Austrian women everywhere she committed suicide to escape that faith (possibly she was first attacked by a soldier). A few days earlier her son Hermann had fallen in the war near Vienna. Ida was buried in the garden of the house where she had lived in Tullnerbach and only in 1953 her remains were transferred to the cemetery in Pressbaum.
- She got her first film engagement in 1913 and she appeared in the Danish production "Atlantis" (1913) with Mihaly Kertesz who later became the famous movie director Michael Curtis.
- Ida was educated at a convent at Sarajevo and - after the death of her stepfather in 1905 in Riva - at the private Ottosche Theaterschule in Vienna.
- When World War II came to an end and the combat operations came to Vienna she committed suicide because she was afraid of a rape by the occupants.
- Her second husband was a Jew and when the Nazi's came to power in 1933 they left Germany and went to Italy. In Italy she was unable to work and soon she got in serious financial trouble. She asked the writer Gerhart Hauptmann to help her (he knew Mussolini), but he refused, stating that he couldn't trouble Mussolini with private affairs.
- During her third pregnancy her marriage to Satter finally broke down and she returned to Vienna alone to give birth to a son, Hermann, on March 31th, 1918. She gave the child into the care of Satter's older sister Hanna and went to Berlin with her other son. here she returned to the theatre and played several parts before she decided to marry the critic and journalist Franz Leppman and left the stage. With Leppmann she had two more sons.
- She left for St. Petersburg with her own ensemble in 1913, but the German colony there was too small and she lost most of her money during this venture. Shortly after her return she fled with her husband to Denmark to keep him out of the army during the First World War.
- On March 31th, 1942 she played her last part ever in "Pillar's of Society" by Ibsen.
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