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Brigitte Horney (March 29, 1911 in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 – July 27, 1988 in Hamburg
Hamburg

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
) was a German theatre and film actress. Best remembered was her role as Empress Katherine the Great in the 1943 version of the UFA film version of Baron Munchhausen
Münchhausen (1943 film)

M?nchhausen is a 1943 in film fantasy comedy film directed by Josef von B?ky, a prominent director who remained in Germany under the Nazi regime....
, directed by Josef von Baky, with Hans Albers
Hans Albers

Hans Albers was a Germany actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century....
 in the title role.

Life and work
Brigitte Horney was the daughter of noted psychoanalyst Karen Horney
Karen Horney

Karen Horney , born Danielsen was a Germany psychodynamic psychologist of Norway and Netherlands descent. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, particularly his theory of sexuality, as well as the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis and its genetic psychology....
 and grew up in Dahlem.






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Brigitte Horney (March 29, 1911 in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 – July 27, 1988 in Hamburg
Hamburg

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
) was a German theatre and film actress. Best remembered was her role as Empress Katherine the Great in the 1943 version of the UFA film version of Baron Munchhausen
Münchhausen (1943 film)

M?nchhausen is a 1943 in film fantasy comedy film directed by Josef von B?ky, a prominent director who remained in Germany under the Nazi regime....
, directed by Josef von Baky, with Hans Albers
Hans Albers

Hans Albers was a Germany actor and singer. He was the single biggest male movie star in Germany between 1930 and 1945 and one of the most popular German actors of the twentieth century....
 in the title role.

Life and work


Brigitte Horney was the daughter of noted psychoanalyst Karen Horney
Karen Horney

Karen Horney , born Danielsen was a Germany psychodynamic psychologist of Norway and Netherlands descent. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, particularly his theory of sexuality, as well as the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis and its genetic psychology....
 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
Joachim Gottschalk

Joachim Gottschalk was a European movie star during the 1930s, a romantic lead in the style of Leslie Howard . He starred in a series of German films opposite the popular German actress Brigitte Horney....
 and appeared in four films with him. Although Gottschalk had fallen from favor with Nazi
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
 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.

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