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Carola Neher is a Actor Allemande born on 2 november 1900 at Munich (German)

Carola Neher

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Nationality German
Birth 2 november 1900 at Munich (German)
Death 26 june 1942 (at 41 years) at Sol-Iletsk (Russie)

Carola Neher (November 2, 1900 – June 26, 1942) was a German actress.

Biography

Neher was born in Munich to a music teacher in 1900. She started to work as a bank clerk in 1917. In the summer of 1920, she made her debut performance at the Baden-Baden theater without a specific stage education, later also working at the theaters of Darmstadt, Nuremberg and at the Munich Kammerspiele. In 1924, Neher started to work at the Lobe-Theater Breslau, where she met Therese Giehse and Peter Lorre. On May 7, 1925 she married Alfred Henschke (the poet Klabund), who had followed her from Munich to Breslau, at that time already a well known and successful poet. The first performance of his Circle of Chalk ("Der Kreidekreis") turned into her first great success.

In 1926 Neher went to Berlin to work with Bertolt Brecht. He wrote the role of Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera, but late in rehearsals her husband died at Davos on August 14, 1928. She was therefore unable to appear at the premiere, but acted the role of Polly in the later performances.

Brecht wrote several roles for her like Lilian Holiday in Happy End and the title role in his Saint Joan of the Stockyards. Neher had also great success as Marianne in Ödön von Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods and embodied and immortalized Polly in G.W. Pabst's film of The Threepenny Opera.

While in Berlin, Neher practiced boxing with Turkish trainer and prizefighter Sabri Mahir at his studio, which opened to women (including Vicki Baum and Marlene Dietrich) in the 1920s. Posing for a photograph opposite Mahir and equipped with boxing gloves and a maillot, she asserted herself as a “New Woman”, challenging traditional gender categories.

In 1932 she married Anatol Becker and left Germany after Adolf Hitler's ascension to power in spring 1933. She first emigrated to Prague, where she worked at the New German Theater, but went on to the Soviet Union in 1934, where she met Gustav von Wangenheim and worked with him at his German language cabaret Kolonne Links.

In 1936, throughout the Great Purge, Wangenheim denounced Neher and her husband, Anatol Becker, as Trotskyites, she was arrested on July 25, 1936. Becker was executed in 1937; Neher was sentenced to ten years in prison and sent to a gulag near Orenburg. She died in the prison there of typhus on July 26, 1942.

Her fate caused protests among other emigrants outside the Soviet Union, especially as Bertolt Brecht did not aid Neher.

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Filmography of Carola Neher (2 films)

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The 3 Penny Opera, 1h44
Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Lotte Lenya, Fritz Rasp, Gustav Püttjer, Hermann Thimig
Roles Polly
Rating72% 3.643983.643983.643983.643983.64398
Macheath aka "Mack the Knife" ("Mackie Messer" in German) is presented as an antihero and is in league with Tiger Brown, Chief of Police, who is about to oversee the coronation of an unspecified queen.
The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop, 32minutes
Directed by Bertolt Brecht, Erich Engel
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Erwin Faber, Karl Valentin, Blandine Ebinger, Max Schreck, Annemarie Hase, Kurt Horwitz
Roles junge Dame im Cafe
Rating60% 3.040043.040043.040043.040043.04004
The plot revolves around Dr. Moras (Faber) who visits a barber (Valentin), who accidentally shaves Moras to look like a Chinese person (above, left), and then mistakenly cuts off Moras' rival's head (photo, above, right), which is sewn back on by the barber's assistant (Ebinger), and ends with a sword fight - "The Duel" - and in which Faber is triumphant (actually, saved by the girl!) and Ebinger and Faber embrace in a happy ending in a mysterious Senegalese Salon (photo right).