Elsa Bassermann
Else Bassermann ( born January 14, 1878 in Leipzig, † May 30 1961 in Baden -Baden; native Sara Elizabeth ship, also known as Elsa Bassermann ) was a German actress and screenwriter.
Life
Else Bassermann assumed her first engagement in 1902 at the Cologne residence theater. In 1903 she played in Nuremberg on intimate theater and from 1904 at the Lessing Theater in Berlin. Especially at the Reinhardt theaters they had successes, where she was part of the ensemble from 1908 to 1914 and again from 1924 to 1927. They also appeared on the Kurfürstendamm and the Saltsburg - stage at the Schauspielhaus, Lustspielhaus, theater.
Since 1908 she was married to actor Albert Bassermann, she accompanied her on numerous guest performances in Germany and abroad. Also, in some silent films she appeared, for which she had partly written the screenplay under the pseudonym Hans Henning. As a guest performance in Leipzig in 1934 was banned by the Ministry of Arts because of their Jewish ancestry, her husband declared his withdrawal from this organization.
The couple is now held on in Switzerland and also had performances in Austria and the Netherlands. In April 1939, she emigrated to the United States. There Else Bassermann could still be involved in some movies.
From 1946 she was together with her husband guest performances in Europe and 1949 for the first time in Germany. She went to Albert Bassermanns death in 1953 for two years at the City Theater Göttingen. Her late roles included Mrs. Alving in Ghosts, Marthe Schwertlein in Goethe's Faust and mother in García Lorca's Doña Rosita remains unmarried. In 1952, her husband Albert died in her arms on a flight from New York City to Zurich. In the 1950s she wrote several articles for the Mannheimer Morgen and the arts section of the Basler National Zeitung. She lived with her last born in 1908, mentally disabled daughter Carmen in difficult financial circumstances. Since her husband was a freeman of the city of Mannheim, it received from the municipality a small pension. Else Bassermann died penniless in 1961. She is buried in the main cemetery in Baden -Baden. Their daughter died in 1970 in a traffic accident.