Emmy Göring

Emmy Göring ( born March 24, 1893 in Hamburg, † June 8, 1973 in Munich, born Emma Johanna Henny sun man) was a German actress and the second wife of Hermann Goering.

Life

Emmy grew up as the youngest of five children of a wealthy factory owner couple and enjoyed the training as an actress at Leopold Jessner in Hamburg. From 1910, followed by engagements in Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Stuttgart and Weimar.

In 1916 she married fellow actor Karl Köstlin, son of director and dramaturge Theodor Köstlin; However, the marriage was divorced in 1926. In 1934, she made ​​the acquaintance of the then Prussian Minister President Hermann Göring, who gave her in the fall of 1934, the title of a Prussian actress and gave her an engagement at the Berlin Staatstheater. As Minna von Barn-helm she took leave of the 1935 Berlin State Theater.

Marriage to Hermann Göring

With great pomp the wedding of Hermann and Emmy Goering was celebrated on 10th April 1935. The couple received late in 1937 as a gift from the German automotive industry, the yacht Carin II Even the birth of his daughter Edda on 2 June 1938, propaganda staged. She led with her husband on the estate Carin Hall in the Schorfheide an ostentatious life style of an aristocratic family. When the opera singer Helene Weinmann dared after the wedding, to comment disparagingly about their former colleague ("This show-off. I had known her when she was not yet the High Lady and 2.50 for Mark and to have a cup of coffee was " ), she was abused, imprisoned and released only in 1943 seriously ill. Emmy Goering acted because Adolf Hitler was unmarried, as the " Great Lady " of the German Reich during the Nazi era; only Magda Goebbels made ​​her often the title dispute. They even played a significant role in politics.

After the war

After the war she was arrested together with her daughter Edda by the Americans and classified in 1948 as an active National Socialist before Spruchkammer Garmisch -Partenkirchen and sentenced to 30 % capacity feeder, a year's work camp and five years banned from performing. To her credit also testified former fellow actor Gustaf. During her time in various internment camps Emmy suffered from sciatica and was almost depend on constant bed rest. They also had ongoing trouble with the camp, as they always Marshaling an image of her husband.

After a long illness, she died 80 years old in a Munich hospital. Your grave site is located in Munich's forest cemetery.

In 1967, she had published the book on my husband's side. These memories were then released in a series in parts in the Quick magazine and made ​​a wide audience with it. There they glorified their role in the Third Reich at the side of Hermann Goering into apolitical. Also the week Schauer, in the late 1960s, a weekly radio program, brought a satirical post about with the refrain: I, Emmy Goering.