Anni Vara

Anni Vara (* 1884 in Germany ; † between 1941 and 1945 ) was a German stage actress .

Live and act

Anni Vara went to school in Hanover and was temporarily a classmate of Claire Waldoff . Vara made her stage debut in 1902 at the Stadttheater von Görlitz and then played, until 1905, at the municipal theaters of Nuremberg and Magdeburg. In 1906 she went to the Figaro Theater in Berlin for one season. From 1907 to 1910 the artist was a member of the ensemble of the Hamburg City Theater, after which she returned to Berlin to perform at the original Parisiane ensemble for another season. In 1911 Anni Vara traveled to New York, where she appeared at the Deutsches Theater. In 1913 Vara moved to the Irving Place Theater in the city on the Hudson for one season.

When war broke out in 1914 , the actress returned to the Reich and played at the Deutsches Theater in Hanover and at the Berlin Lustspielhaus until the end of the war in 1918. Shortly after the First World War, she went to Reval, where she was senior director at the Deutsches Theater, and to the East Prussian capital, Königsberg, where she performed at the Neues Schauspielhaus for six years. In 1927 Annie Vara returned to Berlin to fulfill an obligation at the State Theater. Her last demonstrable permanent engagement was in the 1930/31 season at the English Theater of German Actors in Berlin. In 1933 the Jewish artist was completely sidelined in the Third Reich . It is believed that she was murdered in a concentration camp in the east during World War II .

literature

• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks , p. 418. Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 .
• Handbuch des deutschsprachigen Exiltheater , Volume 2, p. 964. Edited by Frithjof Trapp, Werner Mittenzwei, Henning Rischbieter, Hansjörg Schneider. Munich 1999