The actress Elfriede Heisler came from the theater when she also entered the film business in 1912.
Her much demanding film career came to an abrupt end in 1919 when she committed suicide at the age of only 30 with Veronal.
Elfriede Heisler was born in 1885 in Breslau, Germany (according to some sources, she was born in 1889).
She worked in the provinces and later at the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtischen Schauspielhaus in Berlin.
She had died in 1919 in the aftermath of a suicide attempt with Veronal (barbital). Reportedly, the motive for the suicide attempt was an unhappy love affair.
In 1910 she got an engagement at the Königliche Berliner Schauspielhaus, where she played leading roles in light entertainment plays.
When her final film, Das Buch Esther/The Book of Esther, was first shown in the cinemas in 1919, Elfriede Heisler was no longer alive.