Kitty Aschenbach

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Kitty Aschenbach (born February 5, 1894 in Berlin ; died 1971 or later in Switzerland ) was a German stage and film actress .

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Kitty Aschenbach went straight from school to the theater and made her debut at the age of 17 at the Metropol-Theater in her hometown Berlin. After a season in 1913/14 at the Residenz Theater in the German capital, the Berliner made her debut in a short film by Walter Schmidthässler in the first winter of the war in 1914/15 . She then settled in Frankfurt am Main in order to fulfill an obligation at the theater there from 1915 to 1920. Kitty Aschenbach returned to Berlin for another, this time much smaller, film role in Joe May's drama The Guilt of Lavinia Morland . Otherwise she remained connected to Frankfurt and was a member of the ensemble of the local New Theater from 1920 to 1922 and 1927/28. In the meantime there was another film-related return to the capital, when Kitty Aschenbach took over the little part of the captain's widow Luise Vischerin in a Schiller film by Curt Goetz . In addition, she was seen at the Reinhardt stages in productions by Reinhardt, Karl Heinz Martin and Heinz Hilpert . In Frankfurt at the end of the same decade she celebrated her greatest theatrical successes as a young woman in Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen and as the title character in Die Große Katharina in a production by Max Ophüls . In 1931, Kitty Aschenbach joined a Berlin touring theater, the Berliner Kammerbühne, as a freelance artist, and made guest appearances at several theaters in the capital. Also in 1931 the artist took on her first and only sound film role in the historical drama The Duke of Reichstadt .

With her husband, the Jew Walter Fried, the artist came under massive pressure since the Nazis came to power in Germany. The couple left the country on April 1, 1933 and first went to Paris. An engagement brought her to the German-speaking theater company in Strasbourg; she was seen there in March 1934 as Dr. Anita Murr in the Schwank Hasenklein can't help it . Between 1935 and 1938, Aschenbach has performed in Vienna and Prague, in the fall of 1936, she led a commitment to the Schauspielhaus Zurich where she directed by, Leopold Lindtberg in Hamlet and the play directed by Leonard Steckel in the play The first spring day to see was . After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, Switzerland finally became her new home. Kitty Aschenbach worked there, mostly hospitable example, at different theaters, and again at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, where she was in the late phase of World War II in Leo Tolstoy And the light shines in the darkness (1943) and as an old lady in Franz Werfel JACOBOWSKY and Colonel (1944) could see. In 1944/45 she also gave guest performances at the city theater in Basel. In January 1945 she appeared in the German premiere of Ernest Hemingway's The Fifth Column and in the following year with Leopold Biberti in St. Gallen in a performance of George Bernard Shaw's Heroes . After an engagement in Chur (1947/48) Kitty Aschenbach returned to Germany to perform and in 1949 gave readings in Bremen, Hamburg and Heidelberg. Finally, the University of Frankfurt am Main invited her to a reading evening in memory of the recently deceased Ricarda Huch . There has been no evidence of Aschenbach's artistic activities since the 1950s. It is not known exactly where and when Kitty Aschenbach died; the year of death 1971 is nowhere recorded.

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SURNAME Aschenbach, Kitty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fried-Aschenbach, Kitty (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German stage and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1971
Place of death Switzerland