Johanna Hofer

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Johanna Hofer and Fritz Kortner in Othello  (1921)
Johanna Hofer's grave site

Johanna Hofer (born Johanna Stern ; born July 30, 1896 in Berlin , † June 30, 1988 in Munich ) was a German actress.

Life

Hofer was born as the daughter of the engineer Georg Stern and his wife Lisbeth, b. Schmidt, the younger sister of the artist Käthe Kollwitz . Her sister is the actress Maria Matray . As a drama student, Johanna Hofer played under Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. From 1915 to 1917 she was a member of the Schauspiel Frankfurt am Main , took part in productions by Leopold Jessner for the Berlin State Drama, and met Fritz Kortner there, whom she married in 1924. After the birth of her children in 1924 and 1929, she temporarily withdrew from the stage.

After attacks by the National Socialists against Kortner, she emigrated in 1932 and came to the USA via Switzerland , Austria and England in 1938 . Hofer first lived in New York and from 1941 in Los Angeles and appeared in the refugee drama Another Sun (1940), in films and at events organized by the Jewish Club .

In 1948 she returned to Berlin and later lived in Munich. She played at the Münchner Kammerspiele (Countess Ostenburg in The Dark Is Light Enough , 1955), at the Berlin Schiller Theater and at the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer . After Kortner's death she continued to work intensively on stage and on television in major roles. With her roles in the series Derrick , The Old and The Pawlaks , she became known to a wide audience.

She rests on the new part of the Munich forest cemetery (grave no. 246-W-23) next to her husband.

Filmography

Radio plays

Awards

literature

  • Foundation Archive of the Academy of Arts (Eds., Red. Ina Prescher, Stephan Dörschel, Elgin Helmstaedt): The Kortner-Hofer-Künstler-GmbH. Fürst & Iven, Berlin 2003.
  • Klaus Völker : Fritz Kortner. Actor and director. 2nd edition, Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1993.
  • 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. 245, ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The grave of Johanna Hofer. In: knerger.de. Klaus Nerger, accessed September 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Entry “Im Reservat” on deutsches-filmhaus.de; Retrieved April 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stern, Johanna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1988
Place of death Munich