Margarete Schlegel
Margarete Schlegel ( born December 31, 1899 in Germany, † 1987 in the south of England ) was a German actress.
Life
She debuted in 1917 as a member of the choir at Berlin's Thalia Theater. Shortly after she took her first speaking role in the comedy Charley's Aunt as a partner of Arnold Rieck. Beginning of 1919, she received an engagement at the theater and later at the Deutsches Theater.
Here they became popular in the Wedekind plays Pandora's Box and Spring Awakening. At the same time she began her film career. They played in silent film directed by Urban Gad 1922 Hannele in the Gerhart -Hauptmann- film Hanneles Ascension and 1923 EA Dupont, the childhood sweetheart of the young actor in the old law. Her best-known role in the sound film they had in 1931 in Phil Jutzis novel adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz, in which she portrayed Franz Biberkopfs second girlfriend Kitty.
Margarete Schlegel married in 1924 the economist Hermann Levy. In 1935, she emigrated with her family to London, where her husband was a professor at the University of London. On July 2, 1938, she was expelled from the Ministry of Arts.
During the war she took part in the German anti-Nazi broadcasts, after which they participated in radio broadcasts of the BBC with operetta. After the death of her husband she married again and moved to the English south coast.