Brigitte Horney
Brigitte Horney 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 Münchhausen, directed by Josef von Báky, with Hans Albers in the title role.
Early life
Brigitte Horney was born and grew up in Dahlem, Berlin, the daughter of noted psychoanalyst Karen Horney.Career
She was, for more than a decade, engaged with Berlin's Volksbühne. When she accepted the starring role in the highly popular film Love, Death and the Devil, a new star was born with the Leitmotif song "So oder so ist das Leben". Two years later she would play the love interest of famous actor Hans Albers’s character in the film Savoy Hotel 217.Horney was a good friend of the actor Joachim Gottschalk and appeared in four films with him. Although Gottschalk had fallen from favor with Nazi officials, Horney attended Gottschalk's funeral, regardless of the political and career implications of doing so.
Personal life
After the Second World War she became an American citizen, but continued to visit Germany frequently, where she had a house in Bavaria. She married the eminent Jewish art historian Hanns Swarzenski, a leading authority on German Romanesque manuscripts.Death
She continued to work in films and television until her death in Hamburg in 1988.Selected filmography
Film
Farewell - Hella, retailerFra Diavolo - AnitaRasputin, Demon with Women The Country Schoolmaster - Martha DetlefsenA Man Wants to Get to Germany - Manuela OrtiguezThe Eternal Dream - MariaLove, Death and the Devil - RubyBlood Brothers - Mara, die MagdThe Eternal Dream - Marie- The Green Domino - Ellen Fehling / Marianne FehlingSavoy Hotel 217 - Nastasja Andrejevna DaschenkoCity of Anatol - Franziska ManiuThe House of the Spaniard - Margarita de GuzmanSecret Lives - Lena SchmidtDer Katzensteg - Dienstmagd Regine Hackelberg - TochterFaded Melody - Barbara LorenzRevolutionshochzeit - AlineAnna Favetti - Anna FavettiYou and I - Anna UhligUproar in Damascus - Vera NiemayerTarget in the Clouds - Margot BojeThe Governor - MariaA Woman Like You - Dr. Maria PretoriusLiberated Hands - Dürthen, SchafhirtinEnemies - AnnaThe Girl from Fano - Patricia' - Maria RothBeloved World - Karin RankeBaron Munchhausen - Tsarin Catherine IIAm Ende der Welt - Roberta Bell
- ' - ChristineVerspieltes Leben - Ulyssa von SiebenmühlenMelody of Fate As Long as You're Near Me - Mona ArendtPrisoners of Love - Dr. Hildegard ThomasThe [Last Summer (1954 film)|The Last Summer] - Tatjana TolemainenThe Glass Tower - Dr. BruningDarkness Fell on Gotenhafen - Generalin von ReussThe Inheritance of Bjorndal - Tante EleonoreThe [Cry of the Wild Geese] - Mrs. SandboMiracle of the White Stallions - Countess Arco-ValleyNeues vom Hexer - Lady AstonI Am Looking for a Man - Helene SchmidtThe Trygon Factor - Sister General' - Cordula Hellwig
- ' - JuliaCharlotte - GrandmaBella Donna - Jutta