Kate Oswald

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Käte Oswald , also Käthe Oswald (* December 27, 1890 as Katharina Wilhelmine Maria Parr in Düsseldorf , German Empire , † August 19, 1985 in Los Angeles , California , United States ), was a German actress .

Life

Katharina Wilhelmine Maria Parr performed on stages in Dortmund , Aachen and Nuremberg in the early 1910s . In 1912 she married the director Richard Oswald , who at that time had performed a theater engagement in her home town of Düsseldorf. In the same year she followed him to Berlin.

While she let the theater work rest, the artist played under the new name Käte or Käthe Oswald between 1915 and 1922 in a series of films that were almost exclusively directed by her husband. Kät (h) e Oswald made her last appearances under the pseudonym Käte Waldeck in Oswald's lavish historical and costume fabrics Lady Hamilton and Lucrezia Borgia . In 1922 she retired from the film business and concentrated on raising her two children, Ruth and Gerd .

In 1933 the Oswald family fled Germany (her husband was considered a Jew due to his descent) and settled in Hollywood at the end of November 1938. There, too, Käte Oswald did not return to acting. During a visit from Käte and Richard Oswald to their Düsseldorf relatives in 1963, their husband died.

Filmography

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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. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 598.
personal data
SURNAME Oswald, Kate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oswald, Käthe; Parr, Katharina Wilhelmine Maria (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1985
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States