Claire Rommer
Claire Rommer , born in Klara Romberger , (born December 7, 1904 in Berlin , German Empire , † August 19, 1996 in London , England ) was a German actress .
Life
Growing up in a boarding school, she received her artistic training at the music school and at the Max Reinhardt School in Berlin. At the age of almost 17 she made her debut as a temporary worker at the New People's Theater and the Volksbühne . Even later, the soubrette appeared again and again in operettas and comedies on Berlin stages, especially at the Lustspielhaus . In 1925/26 she took up an engagement at the United Theaters .
Rommer was best known as a silent film actress in the 1920s. Mostly in cheerful strips she appeared in main and supporting roles in the subjects of the lover and salon lady . With the beginning of the sound film era, she also gave vocal performances.
From June 25, 1927 until his death in 1955, she was married to the Jewish entrepreneur Adolf Strenger (1888–1955) during a visit to West Berlin . With the seizure of power by the National Socialists her film and stage career ended. She had her last stage appearance in 1934 in the Revue Scala - a bit crazy about the Berlin Scala . In July 1938 she was excluded from any activity in the German film industry on the grounds that she was probably not Aryan. On July 31, 1940, she and her husband emigrated from France to the United States via Lisbon . She died on August 19, 1996 in the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in the London borough of Chelsea of pneumonia .
Filmography
- 1922: The Song of Songs
- 1923: The merchant of Venice
- 1923: The big industrialist
- 1924: Judith
- 1924: Playing with fate
- 1924: A dream of happiness
- 1925: Wallenstein
- 1925: love stories
- 1926: The third squadron
- 1926: torments of the night
- 1927: one + one = three
- 1927: love dance
- 1927: Previous conditions
- 1928: Hercules Maier
- 1928: Leontine's husbands
- 1928: The Spreewald girl
- 1929: The death ride in the world record
- 1929: Sensation in the winter garden
- 1930: The Waltz King
- 1930: Scapa Flow
- 1931: The Battle of Badmünde
- 1931: Weekend in Paradise
- 1931: Ash Wednesday
- 1931: Reserve has peace
- 1932: It's about everything
- 1932: two happy days
- 1933: The family album
- 1933: A thousand for one night
- 1934: Schlager game
literature
- Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 428.
Web links
- Claire rommer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Claire Rommer at filmportal.de
- Claire Rommer at cyranos.ch
- Pictures by Claire Rommer In: Virtual History
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death Certificate App. No. 1877541-1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rommer, Claire |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Romberger, Klara (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1996 |
| Place of death | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital , Chelsea , London , England , United Kingdom |