Berthe Ostyn

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Berthe Ostyn (born February 23, 1906 in Aachen , † unknown) was a German actress .

Life

Married early, she took acting and singing lessons. Through the agency of the director Carl Froelich's daughter , she received her first film role in The Night Belongs to Us in 1929 . She then moved from Breslau to Berlin and took part in several films from the dawning age of talkies.

Berthe Ostyn preferably embodied flirtatious women of the stage world such as actresses ( Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier ), dancers ( Die Csikosbaroneß ), mannequins ( I'll go out and you stay there ) and singers ( he and his sister ). In Dienst ist Dienst (1931) she seduced an Austrian hussar regiment as cabaret star Carola, and in When the Donkey Is Too Well (1932) she acted as a bar girl who pretends to be a countess. In 1933 she was in a city upside down by the “blonde poison” of an auditor ( Heinrich Schroth ). Although her roles were often quite important, she was regularly overshadowed by the well-known leading actress. Her career ended in 1934.

Filmography

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  • Apache song (Kittchen song) from the sound film “Holzapfel knows everything” (HJ Salter - Ch. Roellinghoff) Original line-up Berthe Ostyn and Luigi Bernauer with orchestral accompaniment. Homocord H 4347-I (H-83 966), up. Berlin 1932