Clementine Plessner

Clementine Plessner , born in Clementine Folkmann , (born December 7, 1855 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † February 27, 1943 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was an Austrian actress .

Life

After the death of her husband, the timber merchant and journalist Louis Plessner († September 18, 1895, at the age of 48), she began to appear in public around the turn of the century. She was initially a singer and appeared at the Laibach State Theater in 1903 . From the end of the First World War it was used in German silent films . Plessner appeared in a large number of films during the 1920s in which she played supporting roles as mothers, grandmothers and other elderly women.

Since 1927 she lived in Vienna and appeared in Austrian productions. In 1932 she appeared again on in German films, after the seizure of power by the National Socialists remained the Jewish actress in Austria. In 1938 she was excluded from the Reichsfilmkammer . Last resident in the Radetzkystraße in Landstrasse in Vienna, she was on 24 September 1942, the transport train 42 Because 519 from Vienna to Theresienstadt concentration camp deported where she was murdered on February 27, 1943rd

The writer Elsa Plessner (Ginsberg) was her daughter.

Filmography (selection)

1915: Caliber five point two 1917: Giovanni's revenge 1918: The Diary of a Lost Woman 1918: Dida Ibsen's story 1918: Under the sign of guilt 1918: Jettchen Gebert's story 1919: Different from the others 1919: the path that leads to damnation 1919: The witch's song 1920: Humanity unleashed 1920: The Medallion of Lady Sington 1920: Manolescu's memoirs 1920: Bar el Manach 1920: Rats of the Big City - Part 1: The mysterious night 1920: The charity performance of the four devils 1921: The walk into the night 1921: The shadow of Gaby Leed

1921: Lady Hamilton 1922: Lucrezia Borgia 1922: The dance of death 1924: Girls You Don't Marry / A picture from our time 1924: slaves of love 1925: The bank crash on Unter den Linden 1925: The Iron Bride 1926: only one dancer 1926: The captain of Köpenick 1928: lace panties and cobbler's bad luck 1929: devotion 1929: The Monte Christo of Prague 1931: Stormy night 1932: The bladder in love 1932: Theodor Körner

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. 273.
• Kay Less: In life, more is taken from you than is 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. 393 f.

Web links

• Clementine Plessner at filmportal.de
• Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
• Clementine Plessner in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Remarks

1. ↑ according to IMDb and Kay Less: The large personal dictionary of the film
2. ^ Austrian National Library: ANNO, Die Presse, 1895-09-19, page 11. In: anno.onb.ac.at. Retrieved November 30, 2016 .