theatre/film/ACTRESSES in BERLIN 1930s need help please

[ing]

I'm researching Renate Muller specifically but finding her rather elusive.

Berlin actress, killed by Gestapo (??suicide?) 1937.

Was in one blatantly anti-semitic nazi film, Togger, and also many general entertainment flicks, including Viktor/Viktoria, a film about a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a drag queen.

(it was later remade with Julie Andrews.)

Any tidbits of info about theatre/film/fashionable women's life in Germany in the 30s would be much appreciated.



I'm an actor, and I'm going to be playing this role. Exciting!!

[Geli]

I'm researching Renate Muller specifically but finding her rather elusive.

Berlin actress, killed by Gestapo (??suicide?) 1937.

Was in one blatantly anti-semitic nazi film, Togger, and also many general entertainment flicks, including Viktor/Viktoria, a film about a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a drag queen.

(it was later remade with Julie Andrews.)

Any tidbits of info about theatre/film/fashionable women's life in Germany in the 30s would be much appreciated.

I'm an actor, and I'm going to be playing this role. Exciting!!

An interesting role, congratulations. I have some books on actresses from the Third Reich era. I may be able to help if you have a specific question. It's hard to think of "tidbits" offhand.

[ing]

thanks, yes I would say the performance was successful.

I found her life very intriguing, and because there was so much mystery and sources were so rare I drew a lot of inpiration from watching Marlene Dietrich films and adapting it.

I got some great feedback from the show. I did a short monologue of Renate, in the hospital, intoxicated on morphine and who knows what else, relating to her nurse, minutes before the Gestapo entered the hospital, and I ended with them stepping into the room.

Thanks for the offer, though. I might be doing a lot of research on Leni Reifienstal (spelling?) in the future to adapt a show about her life.

ingi

[smitcham]

Dear Ing:

Cinzia Romani wrote a book entitled Tainted Goddesses. It has a good chapter about Renate Mueller in it, among others. You can pick up a copy on amazon.com for $3. I recommend you look into it.

Dr. Sandy Mitcham

[Heimatschuss]

Hello,

we just had another thread about Renate Müller and her mysterious death. Run a forum search for 'Renate 'Müller' (note umlaut).

Best regards
Torsten