Bettina Moissi
Bettina Moissi | |
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| Born | 15 October 1923 Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1947–1950 (film) |
| Spouse | Heinz Berggruen |
| Children | Olivier Berggruen Nicolas Berggruen |
| Parent(s) | Alexander Moissi Herta Hambach |
Bettina Moissi (born 15 October 1923) is a Albanian stage and film actress. She played the female lead in the 1948 film Long Is the Road, the first German film to portray the Holocaust.
Biography
Moissi was born in Berlin in October 1923, the second child of leading stage actor Alexander Moissi born in Trieste to Moisi Moisiu from Kavajë in Albania), Moissi was born in Trieste to Moisi Moisiu from Kavajë in Albania, who was a rich Albanian merchant of oil and wheat, and an Arbëresh mother, Amalia de Rada, from Trieste, daughter of a Florentine doctor. Her father was often branded as Jewish due to his name (which translates as "Moses") and his outspoken defense of his fellow Jewish actors and people during a period of growing antisemitism.[1][2][3][4] She is Catholic but was married to Heinz Berggruen who was Jewish.[5]
Personal life
In 1960, she married the art collector Heinz Berggruen. He predeceased her in 2007.[6] They had two children:[7]
- Olivier Berggruen, curator at the Kunsthalle called Schirn Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany
- Nicolas Berggruen, a financier and art collector
Selected filmography
- In Those Days (1947)
- Der Apfel ist ab (1948)
- Long Is the Road (1948)
- The Orplid Mystery (1950)
References
- ^ The Jacobean: "Alexander Moissi, Non-Jewish Actor, Indicts Christian World for its Persecution of the Jew" page 5 | December 4, 1931 | "As a Christian, states Moissi, he cannot stand by and see the virus of anti-semitism infect Christian people, nations, and states, robbing them of all semblance of humanity and justice."
- ^ Becoming Austrians:Jews and Culture between the World Wars By Lisa Silverman Although actor Alexander Moissi was not Jewish, many assumed he was because of his name..."
- ^ Bernard Shaw's Letters to Siegfried Trebitsch By George Bernard Shaw, Siegfried Trebitsch page 335 | In February, 'Too True' opened in Manheim with Alexander Moissi (not a Jew) in the leading role and was disrupted by Nazi shouts of "Jew Moissi" "Jew Shaw" until police intervened.
- ^ Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre edited by Jeanette R. Malkin, Freddie Rokem page 76 | "The appeal and success of some non-Jewish foreign actors among German audiences, however, was due at least in part to their foreignness. Such was the case with star actor Alexander Moissi, whose German was tinged with an "Italian singsong, which fascinated many."
- ^ Der Spiegel: "Seinen Geist am Leben erhalten" by Ulrike Von Knöfel and Martin Doerry (in German) "Meine Mutter ist katholisch, mein Vater jüdisch" / My mother is Catholic, my father is Jewish
- ^ Heinz Berggruen, Influential Picasso Collector, Dies at 93
- ^ New York Times: "Heinz Berggruen, Influential Picasso Collector, Dies at 93" By ALAN RIDING February 27, 2007
Bibliography
- Shandley, Robert R. Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Temple University Press, 2001.
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