Berti German

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Berti Deutsch , born as Berta Karoline Heymann , (born October 3, 1919 in Meißen , Germany ; died March 19, 1982 in East Berlin ) was a German actress .

Life

Berta "Berti" Deutsch, daughter of the singer and actress Steffi Heymann , received her artistic training in exile in the Czech Republic with Paul Barnay and made her debut in 1936 as a dancer at the Stadttheater Reichenberg . She then went to Prague, where her son, who would later become theater and television director Peter Deutsch , was born in 1939 . After the German occupation of Czecholosvakia , the Jewish actress was cut off from all artistic activities. Berti Deutsch continued to live in Prague until she was arrested by German authorities and deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto on September 12, 1942 . On October 1, 1944, she was transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp . Unlike many of the prisoners deported from Theresienstadt to this extermination camp, she survived the camp stress, but has been plagued by chronic illnesses since then.

After the liberation of Auschwitz , Berti Deutsch returned to Germany (in the former East Zone ) and continued her theater work there and in the GDR province (in Freiberg in Saxony and in Meiningen ). From 1954 she also performed in East Berlin, but due to the hardships she had suffered in the camps, she was no longer able to accept demanding stage offers and therefore concentrated on the less strenuous work in film and television, as well as on recitation, radio and dubbing. Her appearance as a terminally ill Jewish woman in the television production “ Assistenzarzt Dr. Feil ”(1960) had autobiographical features. Berti Deutsch was married to the operetta buffo , actor and director Walter Deutsch (1911–1977), whom she had already met in Reichenberg.

Filmography

  • 1959: white blood
  • 1960: uprising in the college
  • 1960: Dance girls for Istanbul
  • 1962: autumn smoke
  • 1961–1964: Blaulicht (two episodes of the TV series)
  • 1964: Peter and the wonder flute
  • 1964: Farmer's War
  • 1965: Woyzeck
  • 1965: test subjects
  • 1966: No victory without a fight
  • 1971: a day like many others
  • 1974: Death on the Mississippi

Radio plays

literature

  • 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. 91.

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personal data
SURNAME German, Berti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heymann, Berta Karoline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1982
Place of death East Berlin