Clementine Plessner
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Clementine Plessner | |
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Born | 7 December 1855 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
Died | 27 February 1943 Theresienstadt concentration camp, Czechoslovakia |
Other names | Clementine Folkmann |
Occupation | Film actress Stage actress |
Years active | 1918 - 1932 (film) |
Clementine Plessner (1855–1943) was an Austrian stage and film actress. Plessner worked in the German film industry and appeared in over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. Plessner featured in Richard Oswald's enlightenment film Different from the Others[1] and F.W. Murnau's Journey into the Night.[2]
Following the Nazi rise to power, the Jewish actress left Germany for neighbouring Austria. Later, after the Anchluss, she was arrested by the Nazi authorities and died in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Selected filmography
- The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918)
- Henriette Jacoby (1918)
- Different from the Others (1919)
- Nocturne of Love (1919)
- Lady Hamilton (1921)
- Journey into the Night (1921)
- Lucrezia Borgia (1922)
- Hallig Hooge (1923)
- Taras Bulba (1924)
- The Circus Princess (1925)
- The Clever Fox (1926)
- Superfluous People (1926)
- The Eleven Schill Officers (1926)
- The Captain from Koepenick (1926)
- The Missing Wife (1929)
- Der Monte Christo von Prag (1929)
- Theodor Körner (1932)
References
Bibliography
- Eisner, Lotte H. F. W. Murnau. University of California Press, 1973.
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
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