Luise del Zopp, birth name Aloisia Theresia Johanna Luksch, also Louise Lingg, (1871 – after 1946) was a German actress, opera singer and screenwriter.[1][2]
Biography
Born on 16 June 1871 in
Brünn (now Brno) in Austro-Hungarian
Moravia, del Zopp first performed as a stage actress in her home town. Following appearances as an operetta singer in
Munich and
Vienna, she again appeared as a stage actress in Germany and Austria while also performing as an opera singer under the stage name Louise Lingg.[2][3]
In 1909, she settled in
Berlin where she first spent two years as an operetta singer.[4] She then met the actor and film director
Rudolf del Zopp (1861–1927) whom she married. He introduced her to Germany's top filmmakers of the times, including
Oskar Messter and
Adolf Gärtner. She wrote the screenplay for the silent film Adressantin verstorben (Sender Deceased, 1911) directed by Gärtner and featuring
Henny Porten.[3]
Luise del Zopp went on to write 41 screenplays including Ein Fehltritt: Die Tragödie einer Geächteten (Misstep: A Tragedy of a Female Criminal, 1911), Sklave der Liebe (A Slave of Love, 1912), Die Hochzeit von Valeni (Valeni's Wedding, 1912), and Das Kriegslied der Rheinarmee (The War Hymn of the Rhine Army, 1914).[1][3] She also acted in Ein Schwur (1913) and Er soll dein Herr sein oder - In der eigenen Schlinge gefangen (1915).[1]
After her husband died in 1926, the director and critic
Gerhard Lamprecht continued to support her but little is known of her later life.[3]