- Brigitte Horney
Brigitte Horney (
March 29 ,1911 inBerlin –July 27 ,1988 inHamburg ) was a notable German theatre and filmactress . Best remembered was her role as Empress Katherine the Great in the 1943 version of the UFA film version of Baron Munchhausen directed by Josef von Baky withHans Albers in the title role.Life and work
Brigitte Horney was the daughter of noted psychoanalyst
Karen Horney and grew up in Dahlem. She was for more than a decade engaged by Berlin's Volksbühne. When she accepted the starring role in the highly popular film Liebe, Tod und Teufel (Love, Death and the Devil, 1934), a new star was born with the "Leitmotif" song "So oder so ist das Leben".Horney was a good friend of the actor
Joachim Gottschalk and appeared in four films with him. Although Gottschalk had fallen from favor with Nazi officials, Horney attended Gottschalk's funeral (Germany, 1941), regardless of the political and career implications of doing so.After the
Second World war she became an American citizen, but continued to visit Germany frequently, where she had a house in Bavaria. She continued to work in films and television (i.e. Oliver Twist) until her death in 1988.External links
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* [http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=714 Brigitte Horney - Postcards and Tobacco cards]
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