Brigitte Borchert

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Brigitte Borchert (born November 15, 1910 in Hamburg ; † August 7, 2011 in Hamburg-Blankenese ), married Brigitte Busch , was a German silent film actress .

Life

Brigitte Borchert spent part of her childhood in Cameroon , where her father worked as a doctor . When he died shortly after the outbreak of the First World War in an assignment under unknown circumstances, Borchert's mother returned to Germany with her children and moved to Berlin . Borchert was working as a saleswoman in a Berlin record and gramophone store when she was discovered for the film by the theater producer Moritz Seeler .

She played the leading role of the record seller Brigitte in the documentary film Menschen am Sonntag (1929/1930), one of the last German silent films . Borchert was one of the four main actors in the film, which portrays the lifestyle of young people in the late phase of the Weimar Republic . In the film, she spent a Sunday at the lake in Berlin with her boyfriend and another couple in the late 1920s. The script for the film was written by Billy Wilder ; Robert Siodmak and Fred Zinnemann , among others, were involved in the direction . The film was shot only on Sundays because the amateur actors were not available for the shooting during the week. The premiere of the film, which is one of the works of New Objectivity , took place in February 1930.

Her participation in Menschen am Sonntag was Borchert's only film work; it still wrote film history with it. Dismissed as a saleswoman in the wake of the economic crisis, Borchert then worked as a secretary . She frequented Berlin artist circles and was a guest at the Romanisches Café , the meeting place for the Berlin avant-garde. From the early 1930s she was in a relationship with the married painter Willy Jaeckel for about six years . After their separation, she married the draftsman and illustrator Wilhelm M. Busch in 1936 . Since then she has been called Brigitte Busch . The marriage resulted in a son, who later became the illustrator Thomas Busch. Bombed out in Berlin in 1943, she fled - her husband was then a Soviet prisoner of war - in 1945 to Hamburg, where she settled.

In 2000, she spoke about her memories of the filming of the feature film Menschen am Sonntag in the documentary Weekend am Wannsee .

Brigitte Borchert died on August 7th, 2011 at the age of 100 in her house in Hamburg-Blankenese . She was buried in the Blankenese cemetery in Hamburg-Sülldorf .

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  1. a b c d e leading actress from Wilder's silent film died in Hamburg . In: Hamburger Abendblatt of August 7, 2011,
  2. a b c d Actress from Billy Wilder film died in Blankenese . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from August 8, 2011
  3. knerger.de: Brigitte Borchert's grave