Charlotte Ander
Singer/actress Charlotte Ander (14 August 1902 in Berlin – 5 August 1969 in Berlin; born Charlotte Andersch) was the daughter of German stage/film couple Rudolf Andersch and Ida Perry. Ander was trained at the Berliner Staatstheater. Charlotte was a star in the silent era before making the transition to sound. Her film career started in 1920 with the film Die letzte Stunde and Danton (1921). Innumerable starring roles in silent movies and early talkies with super-stars Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, and Hans Albers followed.
She celebrated her greatest success in 1933 with the role of the record shop assistant Nina in Ein Lied geht um die Welt aka A Song Goes Around the World in which she starred with then popular singer Joseph Schmidt and her mother, Ida Perry. In 1933, after the Nazis came to power, because she was not reinrassig or pure-blood, it became difficult for Charlotte to find work. She went to England and made at least two films including Maid Happy (1933), but soon found roles as hard, or harder, to find in England than they had been in Germany.
Despite the difficult conditions for her in Nazi Germany, Charlotte returned. She could make a living although not often in front of the cameras. Her only two Nazi era German films were Wie einst im Mai (1937) and Anton, der Letzte (1939). Here fortunes were somewhat better on the stage where she worked until 1950 before returning to the screen in Familie Benthin. Her final film was Das tanzende Herz (1953).
Filmography
- 1920: Die letzte Stunde
- Danton (1921)
- 1921: All for a Woman
- 1921: Das goldene Netz
- 1921: Trick-Track
- 1921: Sturmflut des Lebens
- 1921: Die große und die kleine Welt
- 1921: Die Abenteuer eines Ermordeten
- 1921: Der Streik der Diebe
- 1922: Bardame
- 1922: Der Liebe Pilgerfahrt
- 1923: Ein Weib, ein Tier, ein Diamant
- 1923: Love Tragedy
- 1924: Die Bacchantin
- 1924: Horrido
- 1924: Das Geschöpf
- 1924: Dr. Wislizenus
- 1925: Der Walzer von Strauss
- 1925: Eine Minute vor Zwölf
- Wood Love (1925)
- 1925: Boarding House Groonen
- 1926: Der lachende Ehemann
- 1926: Vienna - Berlin
- 1926: Ledige Töchter
- 1927: Der Himmel auf Erden
- 1927: Liebesreigen
- 1927: Eine kleine Freundin braucht ein jeder Mann
- 1927: The Old Fritz
- 1928: The Lady and the Chauffeur
- 1928: Gaunerliebchen
- 1928: Wer das Scheiden hat erfunden
- The Night Belongs to Us (1929)
- 1930: Flachsmann als Erzieher
- 1930: Rasputin, Demon with Women
- 1930: Woman in the Jungle
- The Tender Relatives (1930)
- Vienna, City of Song (1930)
- 1930: Nur Du (Only You)
- Poor as a Church Mouse (1931)
- 1931: Die Firma heiratet (The Firm Weds)
- 1931: Wenn die Soldaten ... (When the Soldiers)
- 1931: Inquest
- Elisabeth of Austria (1931)
- Chauffeur Antoinette (1932)
- 1932: Bunbury
- 1932: Wenn dem Esel zu wohl ist
- 1932: Goldblondes Mädchen, ich schenk' Dir mein Herz - Ich bin ja so verliebt ...
- 1933: Two in the Sunshine
- 1933: Maid Happy
- 1933: A Song Goes Round the World
- 1934: My Song Goes Round the World
- 1933: Three Bluejackets and a Blonde
- 1937: Wie einst im Mai
- 1939: Anthony the Last
- 1950: Familie Benthin
- 1953: The Dancing Heart
- 1954: Die Mücke
Sources
- Wikipedia: Die freie Enzyklopadie, Charlotte Ander
- Frank-Burkhard Habel; Volker Wachter (2002). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Stars (in German). Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. ISBN 3-89602-391-8.
External links
- Charlotte Ander at the Internet Movie Database
- Photographs of Charlotte Ander
- Charlotte Ander by Thomas Staedeli at www.cyranos.ch
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