- 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.
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