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Carola Neher | |
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| Born | 2 November 1900 |
| Died | 26 June 1942 (aged 41) |
| Other names | Karola Neher |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1920–1931 |
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| Children | Georg |
Carola Neher (born Karola Neher; 2 November 1900 – 26 June 1942) was a German actress and singer. [1]
Neher was born in Munich in 1900. She worked as a bank clerk at the Munich branch of the Deutsche Bank from 11 June 1917 to 15 October 1919. [2] 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 1920 and 1921, she worked with Therese Giehse and Peter Lorre. [2] In 1924, Neher started to work at the Lobe-Theater Breslau. [3]
On 7 May 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. [2] The first performance of his Circle of Chalk ("Der Kreidekreis") turned into her first great success. [3]
In 1926, Neher went to Berlin to work with Bertolt Brecht. He wrote the role of Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera for her, but late in rehearsals her husband died at Davos on 14 August 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, such as Lilian Holiday in Happy End and the title role in his Saint Joan of the Stockyards .[ citation needed ] She enjoyed success as Marianne in Ödön von Horváth's Tales from the Vienna Woods , and embodied and immortalized Polly in G.W. Pabst's 1931 film version of The Threepenny Opera . [4]
While in Berlin, she 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. [5]
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 cabaret Kolonne Links.[ citation needed ]
In 1936, during the Great Purge, Wangenheim denounced Neher and Becker as Trotskyites [6] [7] and she was arrested on 25 July 1936. Becker was executed in 1937, while Neher was sentenced to ten years in prison and sent to the prison for political convicts in Oryol. [8]
She is mentioned in the memoirs both of Yevgenia Ginzburg (as Carola Heintschke) and Margarete Buber-Neumann. [9] According to Buber-Neumann, in 1940 the Soviets included her in a prisoner exchange with the Nazis, which was part of the NKVD-Gestapo cooperation initiated by Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. She was sent to Moscow on her transit to Germany where the two met in Butyrka prison. Buber was transferred to Germany but Neher for unknown reasons was returned to the Oryol prison.
As the German army approached Oryol in October 1941, she was transferred to NKVD Prison No. 2 near Orenburg, where she died of typhus on 26 June 1942, aged 41. [10] [11] Neher (prisoner number 59783) was buried in an unmarked mass grave. Her son, Georg, became a music teacher and only found out about his parents' identity in 1975. [12]
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