Hertha von Walther

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Hertha von Walther around 1927 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Hertha von Walther (born June 12, 1903 in Hildesheim , † April 12, 1987 in Munich ) was a German actress .

Life

Hertha Stern was the daughter of the later Prussian Major General Arthur Stern and Walther von Monbary (1853–1917) and his wife Clara nee. Gabain. Her father, born in Stern-Gwiazdowski, came from Poland and was the adopted son of Rudolf Walther von Monbary , her mother was originally French.

At the age of 17 she left the boarding school in Wolfenbüttel and attended the drama school in Leipzig on a scholarship . After minor roles at the theater there, she moved to Berlin and got an engagement at the Theater am Zoo, later at the Renaissance Theater .

Hertha von Walther was given small film roles as early as 1920. In 1924 she was a young mountaineer in The Mount of Fate . In the classic Die joudlose Gasse she embodied one of the victims of the butcher played by Werner Krauss , who later kills him. Committed to the role of a rather seedy woman, she played an opium-addicted lady in Fritz Lang's film Spies , in M she was a prostitute.

In 1935 she married the director Paul May , at whose request she no longer appeared. After the divorce in 1936, she returned to film, but only received insignificant roles. During the Second World War , she took part in troop support tours in France, the Netherlands and Russia. When the Gestapo tried to use her as an agent, she escaped in June 1943 by fleeing Germany.

It came to Portugal and in 1948 to Brazil. There she lived with her second husband, the Russian geologist Alexander Scherbina, in a remote mining region. At the Deutsche Kammerspiele in Rio de Janeiro she also played theater again. In 1960 Hertha von Walther returned to Germany alone. She went on tour and made guest appearances on various stages. She also got small roles in some films, including the first episode of the Schoolgirl Report .

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personal data
SURNAME Walther, Hertha von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stern and Walther von Monbary, Hertha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1987
Place of death Munich