Grete Mosheim

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Grete Mosheim 1928 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Margarete Emma Dorothea Mosheim (born January 8, 1905 in Berlin , German Reich ; † December 29, 1986 in New York , United States ) was one of the most famous German actresses of the 1920s and 1930s.

Life

Grete Mosheim was the daughter of the Jewish doctor Markus Mosheim (1868–1956) and his wife Clara, née Hilger (1875–1970). After attending the Lyceum , she studied with Marlene Dietrich under Max Reinhardt and at the Reichersche Hochschule für Dramatic Kunst .

Mosheim was a member of the Deutsches Theater Berlin from 1922, i.e. from the age of 17 until 1931 . From 1931 to 1932 she played at the Lessing Theater , 1932/33 at the Metropoltheater and then at the Komödienhaus and the Volksbühne . She also appeared in music revues , on records she sang songs by Friedrich Hollaender and other contemporary composers.

From 1924 she was often represented in silent films, in 1930 she was still in the moral drama Cyankali , directed by Hans Tintner . The film denounces the ban on abortion , which is why it was banned soon after. In the following years Mosheim had leading roles in various sound films. Towards the end of the twenties, she represented the popular mischievous, defiant type of girl.

Mosheim emigrated to Austria in 1933 and then to England in 1934. In 1938 she settled in New York. Despite some theater appearances, she was unable to build on earlier successes there. She also played in New York with the Players from Abroad , a German-language theater that she co-founded.

In 1952 she returned to Germany for the first time and in the following years made guest appearances with theater productions in various cities. She gave her first guest appearance in Berlin, where she played Sally Bowles in John Van Druten's play "I am a camera" , on which the later musical Cabaret is based. She also made some appearances in television productions in the 1960s and 1970s, including the crime series Der Kommissar . After decades of hiatus, she took one last film role in 1978 as the grandmother in Hark Bohm's youth drama Moritz, dear Moritz .

Grete Mosheim was honored in 1963 for her role as Hannah Jelkes in Tennessee Williams 'play The Night of the Iguana with the "Critics' Award for the Performing Arts" and in 1971 with the German Film Award for her "outstanding contributions to German film", and in 1974 with the Federal Cross of Merit .

She was married to the actor Oskar Homolka (1928–1937), to the industrialist Howard Gould (1937–1948) and her third marriage to the journalist Robert Cooper. She lived in New York until the end of her life, but was often in Germany for work.

Her sister was the theater actress Lore Mosheim .

Filmography

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 2: Hurka - Pallenberg. , Klagenfurt et al. 1960, p. 1502 (Moest-Schoch).
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiBCz9z_pxg
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi2GTsaXSGU ( Memento from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mosheim, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohsheim, Margarete Emma Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1986
Place of death New York , United States