Grete Mosheim

Margaret Emma Dorothea Mohsheim ( born January 8, 1905 in Berlin, German Reich, † December 29, 1986 in New York, United States), was one of the most famous German actresses of the 1920s and 1930s.

Life

The daughter of the doctor Markus Mosheim (1868-1956) and his wife Clara, nee Hilger (1875-1970) studied after visiting the Lyceum together with Marlene Dietrich at Max Reinhardt as well as the rich man 's Academy of Dramatic Art. She was from 1922, so since she was 17 years old, until 1931 a member of the Deutsches Theater Berlin. 1931 to 1932 she played at the Lessing Theatre, 1932-1933 at the Metropol Theatre and then at the Comedy House and at the Volksbühne. She also appeared in music revues and sang songs by Friedrich Hollaender and others.

In silent film, it was often represented since 1924, most recently in 1930 in cyanide under the direction of Hans Tintner. The film denounces ban on abortion, which he was soon banned. In the following years she had leading roles in several films with sound. Grete Mosheim represented the model towards the end of the twenties very popular mischievous, defiant girl type.

She emigrated in 1933 to Austria and in 1934 to England. In 1938 she settled down in New York. Despite some theater performances they could not build on their previous successes. Mosheim played in New York and at the player from Abroad, a German theater, which she co-founded.

In 1952 she returned for the first time back to Germany and has performed in the following years in different cities. Their first guest performance she gave in Berlin, she played Sally Bowles in the John Van Drutens play " I am a Camera" on which the musical Cabaret is based. In the 1960s and 1970s she also had some appearances in television productions, including the series The Commissioner. A final film role after decades pause, she took over in 1978 as the grandmother in Moritz, lieber Moritz.

Grete Mosheim was 1963 1971 honored with the Critics 'Award for the Performing Arts for her role as Hannah Jelkes in Tennessee Williams' play The Night of the Iguana and the German Film Award for her " outstanding contribution to the German film", also in 1974 with the Order of Merit.

She was married to actor Oskar Homolka (1928-1937), with the industrialist Howard Gould (1937-1948) and his third wife with the journalist Robert Cooper. Her sister was the stage actress Lore Mosheim.

She lived up to her death in New York and often returned to Germany for actors.

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