Käthe Dorsch

Käthe Dorsch
Dorsch in 1946
Born	Katharina Dorsch (1890-12-29)29 December 1890 Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany
Died	25 December 1957(1957-12-25) (aged 66) Vienna, Austria
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1905-1957
Spouse	Harry Liedtke (1920-1928)

Käthe (Katharina) Dorsch (29 December 1890 – 25 December 1957) was a German actress.

Life

She was born in the Bavarian town of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, the daughter of a bakery helper. Her family moved to Nuremberg, when she was three years old. Dorsch attended a commercial school and had her first engagement aged 15 as a choir singer at the Staatstheater, performing Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. She appeared in Carl Zuckmayer's 1927 play Schinderhannes.

Dorsch is buried at the cemetery of Bad Saarow-Pieskow. A memorial stands at Waldfriedhof Dahlem in Berlin.

Selected filmography

• The Queen's Secretary (1916)
• Vendetta (1919)
• The Blue Mauritius (1919)
• Miss Julie (1922)
• Three Days of Love (1931)
• Savoy Hotel 217 (1936)
• A Woman of No Importance (1936)
• Yvette (1938)
• A Mother's Love (1939)
• The Comedians (1941)
• The Prisoner (1949)
• Regine (1956)

External links

• Käthe Dorsch in the German National Library catalogue
• Käthe Dorsch at IMDb
• Käthe Dorsch at Find a Grave
• Photos of Käthe Dorsch
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