Bettina Moissi

Bettina Moissi (born October 15, 1923 in Berlin ) is a German actress .

Life

As the daughter of the Albanian-born actor Alexander Moissi and Herta Hambachs, she grew up in Switzerland . She received her acting training under Otto Falckenberg at the beginning of the Second World War in Munich. At this time she made her first film appearances in Jakko and Georg Wilhelm Pabsts Komödianten under the pseudonym Bettina Hambach . Subsequently banned from filming for “racial” reasons, she switched to the theater. In 1943 she brought Gustaf Gründgens to the Prussian State Theater, which he directed .

When she was scheduled for the role of Jessica in a strongly anti-Semitic version of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice under the direction of the Nazi-affiliated film director Veit Harlan at the beginning of 1945 , she turned to the director Helmut Käutner , who she knew , with a request for help . In fact, the rapid end of the war prevented filming from starting.

It was not until the end of 1946 that she was able to continue her film work, now again as Bettina Moissi. She made her post-war debut in Käutner's In Those Days and in 1948 also took part in his contemporary satire The apple is off . Between the two films, Moissi was seen in the 1947 Jewish-German cooperation Lang is der Veg / Lang ist der Weg , directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein . After Käutner's commercial failure Epilog , Bettina Moissi finished her work in front of the film camera in 1950.

Marriage and offspring

In 1959 Bettina Moissi married the art collector Heinz Berggruen . They had two sons:

• Nicolas Berggruen (* 1961), investor
• Olivier Berggruen (* 1963), art historian

Filmography

• 1941: Comedians - Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
• 1941: Jakko - Director: Fritz Peter Buch
• 1947: In those days - Director: Helmut Käutner
• 1948: The apple is off - Director: Helmut Käutner
• 1949: Long is the way - directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf , Marek Goldstein
• 1950: Epilog - The Secret of Orplid - Director: Helmut Käutner

Radio plays

The Internet database of the ARD radio play archive lists three radio plays in which Bettina Moissi was a speaker. Both productions were made by Bayerischer Rundfunk .

• 1950: Pique-Dame (after Alexander Puschkin ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
• 1950: The hollow tooth (by Kurd E. Heyne ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm
• 1950: Nothing of importance (by Dietmar Schönherr ) - Director: Heinz-Günter Stamm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LONG IS THE WAY / LONG IS THE VEG. R: Fredersdorf [DE, 1947-1948] . cine-holocaust.de. Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 1, 2012. 
2. ↑ Cinematography of the Holocaust

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. 403.

Web links

• Bettina Moissi in the Internet Movie Database (English)