# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-ley-piscator
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:55:41.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-ley-piscator"
name: "Maria Ley-Piscator"
slug: "maria-ley-piscator"
description: "Maria Ley-Piscator was an Austrian-American dancer and choreographer. She is best known as the wife of Erwin Piscator (1893–1966), Germany's famous left-wing theater director. Born on 1 August 1898 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Maria Ley sought to create a theatrical career for herself as a dancer in Paris and Berlin. Later, she turned to choreography and helped in several stage productions with Max Reinhardt, including A Midsummer Night's Dream."
tagline: "Austrian dancer (1898–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maria_Ley_(1898%E2%80%931999)_1925_%C2%A9_Franz_Xaver_Setzer_(1886%E2%80%931939).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
birthDate: "1898-08-01"
deathDate: "1999-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.13
  momentum:             14.21052631578947
  historical:           3.737221333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1153232/"
    handle:    "nm1153232"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "ماريا لى بيسكاتور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ley"
    title: "Maria Ley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ley-Piscator"
    title: "Maria Ley-Piscator"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89995"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3591026"
    title: "Maria Ley Piscator"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations