Carsta Löck
German actress (1902-1993)
Carsta Löck (28 December 1902 – 9 October 1993) was a German film actress.
Life
The daughter of a merchant grew up in Kiel and worked as a typographer. After training as an actor, she made her debut as Rosi in Hermann Sudermann's The Butterfly Battle in Berlin in 1930. In the same year she received an engagement at the touring theater of the German Volksbühnenvereine Berlin. From 1934 she made guest appearances on various Berlin stages such as the Theater am Nollendorfplatz, Lessingtheater, Komödie, Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Theater, Tribüne, Renaissance Theater and Schlossparktheater. Towards the end of the war she was also at the front in looking after the troops. In 1944 she was on the list of God-gifted people of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. After the war she continued her theater work in Berlin.
From 1933 she was frequently cast in feature films, especially comedy films. She was soon set on the simple girl from the country and played, mostly in supporting roles and often with a pinch of comedy, maids, soldiers' brides, wives, housekeepers, secretaries and neighbors.
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