Johanna Hofer
Johanna Hofer ( born Johanna Stern, born July 30, 1896 in Berlin, † June 30, 1988 in Munich) was a German actress.
Life
Hofer was born as the daughter of an engineer Georg Stern and his wife Lisbeth, nee Schmidt, the younger sister of the artist Käthe Kollwitz. Her sister is the actress Maria Matray. While still a drama student Johanna Hofer played under Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. 1915-1917 she was a member of the drama Frankfurt am Main, was involved in productions Leopold Jessner for the Berlin State spectacles with and met Fritz Kortner, whom she married in 1924. After the birth of their children in 1924 and 1929, she retired temporarily from the stage.
After attacks by the Nazis against Kortner she emigrated in 1932 and came over to Switzerland, Austria and England in 1938 in the United States. Hofer first lived in New York since 1941 in Los Angeles and appeared among others in the refugee drama Another Sun (1940 ), in movies and events of the Jewish Club.
In 1948 she returned to Berlin and lived in Munich later. They played, among others, the Münchner Kammerspielen ( Countess east castle in the dark is light enough, 1955), at Berlin's Schiller Theater and the stage at Hall 's shore. After Kortner death she continued to work intensively on stage and on television in large rolls. With her roles in series Derrick, The Old Man and The Pawlaks they became known to a wide audience.
It rests on the Munich Forest Cemetery next to her husband.