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Brigitte Horney (March 29, 1911 in
BerlinBerlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...
– July 27, 1988 in
HamburgHamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
) 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 MunchhausenMünchhausen is a 1943 fantasy comedy film directed by Josef von Báky, a prominent director who remained in Germany under the Nazi regime. Despite being made in Nazi Germany, this film is noted for the way in which it was able to avoid the politics of the time...
, directed by Josef von Baky, with
Hans AlbersHans Albers was a German 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.- Life and work :...
in the title role.
Life and work
Brigitte Horney was the daughter of noted psychoanalyst
Karen HorneyKaren Horney born Danielsen was a German psychoanalyst and psychiatrist of Norwegian and Dutch 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 GottschalkJoachim Gottschalk was a European movie star during the 1930s, a romantic lead in the style of Leslie Howard...
and appeared in four films with him. Although Gottschalk had fallen from favor with
NaziNazism, known officially in German as National Socialism , is the totalitarian ideology and practices of the Nazi Party or National Socialist German Workers’ Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.Nazism is often considered...
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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