Margarete Neff

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Margarete Neff (* 1892 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † 1984 in New York City , United States ) was an Austrian actress .

Live and act

Born in Vienna, she began her theater career at the age of 17 in Berlin . After a detour to the court theater in Meiningen and Prague and her first film role in her native Vienna (as a mother in the Anzengruber film adaptation of “ The Perjurer ” in 1915 ), Margarete Neff returned to Berlin in 1918. There she was mainly seen at the theater, but in the early post-war years (1919–21) the artist also took part in a number of (less important) films. As a result of his marriage to his German colleague Rudolf Klein-Rogge , Neff temporarily withdrew from acting.

At the end of the 1920s she played again in Meiningen. Margarete Neff belonged to the ensemble of the German National Theater Weimar until 1935 , before, as a staunch Protestant, she felt massively persecuted and returned to Vienna in June 1936. Her Jewish husband Alfred Junck was arrested there on November 10, 1938 as a result of the so-called Reichskristallnacht , and both apartments were vandalized. After Junck, after Neff's intensive efforts to get him released, 16 days later as a result of Emmy Göring's intervention in her husband Hermann Göring 's home, and returned home, the couple emigrated to Switzerland in March 1939 . From there the Viennese actress emigrated to the USA in May 1939. Here Margarete Neff only played some emigre theater with the Players from Abroad . She stayed in the United States after World War II .

Filmography

  • 1915: The perjurer
  • 1919: Marion Bach's love
  • 1919: In the station keeper's house
  • 1920: Poor little Pierrot
  • 1920: The last high house
  • 1920: The Mali
  • 1920: Hyenas on the battlefield of life. 2. The Apaches of Paris
  • 1921: Demonic loyalty
  • 1921: The nights of Cornelis Brouwer

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. 597.
  • Neff, Margarete , 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. 693

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personal data
SURNAME Neff, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1984
Place of death New York City , United States