Clementine Plessner


Clementine Plessner was an Austrian stage and film actress. Plessner worked in the German film industry and appeared in over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. Plessner featured in Richard Oswald's enlightenment film Different from the Others and F.W. Murnau's Journey into the Night.
Following the Nazi rise to power, the Jewish actress left Germany for neighbouring Austria. Later, after the Anchluss, she was arrested by the Nazi authorities and died in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Selected filmography

Diary of a Lost Woman The Story of Dida Ibsen Henriette Jacoby Different from the Others Nocturne of Love The Tragedy of a Great Humanity Unleashed Lady Hamilton Journey into the Night The Shadow of Gaby Leed The Circle of Death Bigamy Lucrezia Borgia Hallig Hooge Taras Bulba Gobseck Girls You Don't Marry Slaves of Love The Voice of the Heart Two Children The Circus Princess The Iron Bride Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days The Clever Fox Superfluous People The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden Only a Dancing Girl Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman The Eleven Schill Officers The Captain from Koepenick The Right to Live The White Sonata The Missing Wife Der Monte Christo von Prag