Hertha Thiele

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Born: 8 May 1908 Died: 5 August 1984

Country of origin: Germany

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Description: Born: Leipzig, Germany. Spouse: Heinz Klingenberg, actor (1932–1936) German actress who is noted for her starring roles in controversial stage plays and films produced during Germany's Weimar Republic and the early years of the Third Reich. She is most widely remembered for her portrayal of Manuela in the groundbreaking 1931 lesbian-themed film 'Mädchen in Uniform'. Thiele was reunited with Dorothea Wieck in another lesbian-themed film 'Anna und Elisabeth' (1933), which was banned by the Nazis soon after it opened and which she later said was the most important work of her career. She also continued to work in t Born: Leipzig, Germany.

Spouse: Heinz Klingenberg, actor (1932–1936)

German actress who is noted for her starring roles in controversial stage plays and films produced during Germany's Weimar Republic and the early years of the Third Reich.

She is most widely remembered for her portrayal of Manuela in the groundbreaking 1931 lesbian-themed film 'Mädchen in Uniform'. Thiele was reunited with Dorothea Wieck in another lesbian-themed film 'Anna und Elisabeth' (1933), which was banned by the Nazis soon after it opened and which she later said was the most important work of her career.

She also continued to work in theatre during the early 1930s, including productions with Max Reinhardt: 'Harmonie' (1932) and Veit Harlan: 'Veronika' (1935).

Her career was thwarted when the Nazi government approached her with repeated requests to assist in the production of National Socialist propaganda. By 1936 the Nazis had come to view her work as mostly subversive and she was excluded from the Reichstheater and Reichsfilmkammer. In 1937 she left Germany for Switzerland.

Hertha Thiele returned to East Germany after the war but was unsuccessful in her efforts to begin a theatre. She returned to Switzerland and worked as a psychiatric nursing assistant during most of the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1966 Thiele again returned to the GDR, working in stage productions in Magdeburg and Leipzig. During the 1970s she was often seen on East German television acting in sundry series and made-for-television films which were virtually unknown in West Germany, including the popular 'Polizeiruf 110'.

In 1975 Thiele's work was featured in a television documentary 'Das Herz auf der linken Seite' and in 1983 a monograph on her life and work was published by Deutsche Kinematek.

Thiele reportedly married more than once. One of her husbands was actor Heinz Klingenberg.

Towards the end of her life, western feminists researching the history of 'Mädchen in Uniform' sought her out and she enjoyed a small measure of renewed cult celebrity before her death in 1984.

Died: Berlin, Germany. ... (more)

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