---
name: "Sybille Schmitz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sybille-schmitz"
fi1m_id: "sybille-schmitz"
imdb_id: "nm0773525"
tmdb_id: 11587
wikidata_id: "Q76371"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "2 December 1909"
died: "13 April 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T00:57:09.633750+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Sybille Schmitz

## Identity

Sybille Schmitz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sybille-schmitz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sybille-schmitz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0773525
- **TMDB ID:** 11587
- **Wikidata ID:** Q76371
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybille_Schmitz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76371, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773525/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11587

Actor. Born 2 December 1909 in Düren, Germany. Died 13 April 1955.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 2 December 1909, Düren, Germany
- **Died:** 13 April 1955
- **Also known as:** Sybille Maria Christine Petersson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybille_Schmitz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76371, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773525/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11587

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Vampyr*](https://film.one/film/vampyr.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Sybille Schmitz was a German actress. Born Sybille Maria Christina Schmitz on 2 December 1909 in Düren, she attended acting school in Cologne and secured her first stage engagement at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1927. She made her film debut in *Freie Fahrt* (1928).

Her early screen roles included Elisabeth in G. W. Pabst's *Diary of a Lost Girl* (1929) and Léone in Carl Theodor Dreyer's *Vampyr* (1932). She played her first leading role in *F.P.1* (1932) and went on to appear in numerous German films of the 1930s and 1940s, among them *Fährmann Maria* (1936) and *Titanic* (1943), in which she played Sigrid Olinsky.

Schmitz was married to screenwriter Harald G. Petersson from 1940 to 1945. She died in Munich on 13 April 1955.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Vampyr* (1932), Fi1m 85, as Léone — [page](https://film.one/film/vampyr.md)

## Complete filmography (40)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The House on the Coast* (1954), as Anna
- *Illusion in Moll* (1952), as Maria Alsbacher
- *Crown Jewels* (1950), as Eva Skeravenen
- *Sensation im Savoy* (1950), as Vera Gordon
- *Die Lüge* (1950), as Susanne Gruber
- *The Last Night* (1949), as Renée Meurier
- *Between Yesterday and Tomorrow* (1947), as Nelly Dreifuss
- *Life Calls* (1944), as Hella Warkentin
- *The Impostor* (1944), as Thea Varèn
- *Titanic* (1943), as Sigrid Olinsky
- *Vom Schicksal verweht* (1942), as Dr. Virginia Larsen
- *Wetterleuchten um Barbara* (1941), as Barbara Stammer
- *Clarissa* (1941), as Clarissa von Reckwitz
- *Trenck, der Pandur* (1940), as Prinzessin Deinartstein
- *Die fremde Frau* (1939), Actor
- *Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit* (1939), as Eva
- *Hotel Sacher* (1939), as Nadja Woroneff
- *Tanz auf dem Vulkan* (1938), as Gräfin Héloise Cambouilly
- *The Stars Shine* (1938), as Gast
- *Die Umwege des schönen Karl* (1938), as Lu Donon - Tochter
- *Signal in der Nacht* (1937), as Brigitte von Schachen
- *Die Kronzeugin* (1937), as Jelena Rakowska
- *The Unknown* (1936), as Madeleine
- *Die Leuchter des Kaisers* (1936), as Anna Demidow
- *Ferryman Maria* (1936), as Maria
- *I Was Jack Mortimer* (1935), as Winifred Montemayor
- *If It Were Not for Music* (1935), as Ilonka Badacz
- *An Ideal Husband* (1935), as Gloria Cheveley
- *Stradivari* (1935), as Maria Belloni
- *Punks Arrives from America* (1935), as Britta Geistenberg
- *Top Sergeant Schwenke* (1935), as Erna Zuwade, Stütze bei Wenkstern
- *Farewell Waltz* (1934), as George Sand
- *Master of the World* (1934), as Vilma, seine Frau
- *Music in the Blood* (1934), as Carola, seine Nichte
- *Rivalen der Luft* (1934), as Sportfliegerin Lisa Holm
- *F.P.1 Doesn't Answer* (1932), as Claire Lennartz
- *Vampyr* (1932), as Léone — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/vampyr.md)
- *Diary of a Lost Girl* (1929), as Elisabeth
- *Freie Fahrt* (1928), Actor
- *Accident* (1928), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Sybille Schmitz](https://film.one/media/person/3853007/gallery-7465ee65c72a.jpg) Sybille Schmitz — Yva (Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon, 1900-1944), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Sybille_Schmitz_Yva.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Sybille Schmitz](https://film.one/media/person/3853007/gallery-1d2494c29747.jpg) Sybille Schmitz — Image via TMDB
- ![Sybille Schmitz](https://film.one/media/person/3853007/gallery-0cde63a7b3e1.jpg) Sybille Schmitz — Image via TMDB

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