Anneliese Born

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Anneliese Born (born January 17, 1901 in Heidelberg ; died July 29, 1989 in Baden-Baden ) was a German stage, film and television actress .

Live and act

Anneliese Born originally wanted to be a dancer, but went to Berlin in 1923 to start an acting career and was cast by Leopold Jessner for the role of Mariechens in Joseph von Eichendorff's comedy The Suitors . In 1924 Born started her first permanent engagement in Bremen. The following year she went to the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, where she made her breakthrough. The next stage stops were Mannheim, Darmstadt, Augsburg and Munich, where the actress found work at the Kammerspiele in the late 1920s. From 1929 to 1935 she worked at the Kammerspiele and at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, where she was mainly cast as a salon lady. At this point in time, her husband Albrecht Schoenhal began to make a career as a film star, while Anneliese Born had to struggle more and more with difficulties on the part of the National Socialist rulers due to “unclear racial origin”.

Born followed Schoenhals to Berlin, but after a brief commitment to the theater in Behrenstrasse, the Reichstheaterkammer (RTK) began to review the artist's “racial origin”. Anneliese Born was not excluded from the RTK, but she could only appear with a special permit. After Schoenhals 'refusal to play Jud Suss in the anti-Semitic inflammatory film of the same name in 1940 , the film star got on Goebbels' boycott list, and the couple decided to leave Berlin temporarily in 1941. Both settled on a farm in the Black Forest. Occasionally the couple went on tours, from 1943 also as part of troop support. After the end of the war in 1945, Anneliese Born was no longer involved in any theater, but continued her guest performance at the side of her husband, most recently in 1967/68 in Noel Coward's duet in the twilight on stages in Baden-Baden, Stuttgart and Cologne. Anneliese Born also appeared sporadically in front of film and television cameras without making a major impression there. In 1970, Schoenhals' and Born's autobiography “Immer zu Zwei” focused on both acting lives.

Filmography

literature

  • Trapp, Frithjof; Mittenzwei, Werner; Rischbieter, Henning; Schneider, Hansjörg: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 / Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists. Volume 2, p. 107 f., Munich 1999

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personal data
SURNAME Born, Anneliese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoenhals; Anneliese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress on stage, film and television
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1989
Place of death Baden-Baden