Josefa Gettke

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Josefa "Pippa" Gettke also Josepha Gettke , born as Josefine Gettke (born January 6, 1895 in Elberfeld , German Empire , † 1989 ) was a German theater and film actress during the silent film era .

Life

Josefa Gettke was born in Elberfeld as the daughter of the theater director and actor Ernst Gettke (1841-1912) and the opera singer and actress Josefine Grund (1869-1940).

She started her artistic career at the beginning of the First World War in Prague . It stayed there until September 1916, then went to Vienna, where it can be proven until July 1918. Josefa Gettke then stayed in Berlin until September 1919, then came back to Vienna and briefly (1921) visited Prague again.

Originally she wanted to marry her fellow actor Rudolf Dietz, but when she met Paul Hörbiger at the State Theater in Prague, she fell in love with him and canceled the wedding, which led to an assassination attempt on Hörbiger, to whom she had been married on September 11, 1921 . Their children were Christl (* March 17, 1922), Hansi (* 1926; † March 16, 1929), Monica (* May 5, 1930), the mother of Christian Tramitz , and Thomas Hörbiger , who also became an actor and father of Mavie Hörbiger is. The marriage lasted until 1939. She died in 1989.

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Markus : The Hörbigers. Family biography. Amalthea, 2006, ISBN 3-850-02565-9 .
  2. Article Paul Hörbiger. In: Horst O. Hermanni: From Jean Gabin to Walter Huston. The film ABC. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8334-2377-2 , pp. 481-494, especially p. 482.
  3. Paul Hörbiger ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at geburtstag-kalender.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geburtstag-kalender.de
  4. Harald Havas : Wiener Sammelsurium , Pichler-Verlag Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85431-375-6 , p. 67.