Amy Frank

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Amy Frank , until 1939 Emmy Frank (* December 15, 1896 as Emilie Rosenthal in Schüttenhofen , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary ; † May 6, 1980 in East Berlin ) was an actress of Austrian and Bohemian descent in Germany and Great Britain .

Life

Born Emilie Rosenthal received private music and acting training in Vienna and made her theater debut in 1920. In the following 13 years she performed as Emmy Frank on stages in Hirschberg , Brno , Prague , Breslau and Düsseldorf , where she played under the artistic direction of Louise Dumont at the theater there .

When the National Socialists seized power , the Jew Rosenthal / Frank was temporarily arrested, but released again in 1933. Emmy Frank fled via Czechoslovakia to the Soviet Union , where she stayed between 1935 and 1937. In the years 1937–39 she returned to Prague before the smashing of the rest of the Czech Republic in 1939 caused her to flee to England. There the artist, who now called herself Amy Frank , appeared in the emigrant cabaret Laterndl and also appeared in films for the first time after the end of the Second World War .

In 1948 Amy Frank returned to Germany and settled in the East Zone and in East Berlin. There she found employment at the Deutsches Theater and the neighboring Berliner Kammerspiele until 1962 . Around 1960 she was regularly seen with supporting roles in some DEFA cinema productions.

Amy Frank was married to the actor Friedrich Richter, who also came from what is now the Czech Republic .

tomb

Both are buried in the French cemetery in Berlin-Mitte.

Movies

  • 1946: While the Sun Shines
  • 1947: The First Gentleman
  • 1948: Emergency landing (Broken Journey)
  • 1954: Witches
  • 1959: Lorenz marriage case
  • 1960: Seilergasse 8
  • 1960: doctors
  • 1961: Hello, dear afternoon
  • 1961: Love and the co-pilot

theatre

Radio plays

literature

  • Christian Cargnelli, Michael Omasta (ed.): Departure into the Unknown. Austrian filmmakers who emigrated before 1945. , p. 40 f., Wespennest Verlag, Vienna 1993
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 388.
  • Frank, Amy , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 201
  • Frank, Amy , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 315f.

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personal data
SURNAME Frank, Amy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank, Emmy (stage name until 1939); Rosenthal, Emilie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Bohemian-German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Schüttenhofen , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1980
Place of death East Berlin