Hermione Sterler

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Hermine Sterler (born March 20, 1894 in Cannstatt , † May 25, 1982 in Stuttgart ) was a German actress .

Life

She made her debut in 1918 at the Residenztheater Hannover and later came to Berlin. There she performed at the Small Theater, among others. She acted in the role of the salon lady and was often used in German silent films from 1921. Here she embodied wives and mothers at an early age, in 1930 in Rasputin, demon of women , she portrayed Tsarina Alexandra .

When the National Socialists came to power, the Jewish woman moved to Vienna in 1933, where she was able to continue working in the theater and in film. The annexation of Austria also ended her artistic career here.

Hermine Sterler was able to move to London and from there came to the USA. The film director Wilhelm Dieterle , who also emigrated , gave her the first film role in America in his biography Paul Ehrlich - A Life for Research .

During the Second World War and afterwards, she took part in several Hollywood productions, where she played German or other European women in mostly very small roles. She played the wife of Ernst Hanfstaengl in the anti-Nazi film The Hitler Gang . Most recently she was seen again in a German film in My Father, the Actor , directed by Robert Siodmak in 1956. Her last film appearance was in Alfred Hitchcock's The Torn Curtain in 1966 as an old woman who gets on a bus and is thus unknowingly drawn into an espionage case.

Filmography (selection)

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. P. 486 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

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personal data
SURNAME Sterler, Hermione
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1982
Place of death Stuttgart