Kate Nevill

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Käte Nevill , also Käthe , (born as Käte Levin April 29, 1892 in Breslau ; died July 5, 1972 in Gauting ) was a German actress and acting teacher.

Life

Käte Levin made the stage name Nevill from her family name . She began her theater career in Max Reinhardt's ensemble in Berlin . She married the actor Hans Schweikart (1895–1975) and in 1923 went with him to the Münchner Kammerspiele . She founded her own drama school in Munich . Nevill was married to the writer and translator Erich Noether (1890-1977) in his second marriage . After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, both emigrated to Italy . It is unclear whether they subsequently emigrated to Palestine .

After the Second World War , she returned to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1951 and worked as an acting teacher at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich, where she became the deputy headmistress. Due to illness, she took a break from 1958 to 1961 and was then again deputy director.

literature

  • Nevill, Käte , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 701
  • Nevill, Käte , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 860f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The statements of Schweikart, who was still in contact with his ex-wife, indicate that Nevill was stuck in Bolzano and was planning to flee to Palestine.
personal data
SURNAME Nevill, Kate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nevill, Kathe; Schweikart, Kathe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and acting teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 5th July 1972
Place of death Gauting