Bettina Moissi
Bettina Moissi (* October 15, 1923 in Berlin ) is a German actress.
Life
As the daughter of the ethnic Albanian actor Alexander Moissi and Herta Hambach, she grew up in Switzerland. Her acting training she received at the beginning of World War II in Munich under Otto Falkenberg. At this time, she completed under the pseudonym Bettina Hambach her first film appearances in Jakko and Georg Wilhelm Pabst's comedians. Then occupied for "racial " reasons with movie ban, she switched to theater. In 1943, she took Gustaf headed by him to the Prussian State Theatre.
When she was provided under the direction of the Nazi -affiliated film director Veit Harlan at the beginning of 1945 for the role of Jessica in a strongly anti-Semitic version of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, she turned to her well-known director Helmut Käutner, with a request for help. In fact, the rapid end of the war prevented the start of filming.
It was not until the end of 1946 she could now resume as Bettina Moissi, her film work. Your postwar debut in Käutner In those days and had 1948 in the time Satire The apple is from with. Between the two films we saw Moissi in 1947 turned Jewish- German cooperation is the long- Veg / Long is the way, directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf and Marek Goldstein. After Käutner commercial failure epilogue Bettina Moissi ended in 1950 their work on the film camera.
Marriage and issue
1959 married Bettina Moissi the art collector Heinz Berggruen. They have two sons:
- Nicolas Berggruen ( born 1961 )
- Olivier Berggruen ( born 1963 ) ( art historian )
Filmography
Radio plays
The Internet database of ARD Radio Play archive recorded two radio plays in which Bettina Moissi has participated as a speaker. Both productions were produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk.