Clementine Plessner

Clementine Plessner
Born 7 December 1855
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died 27 February 1943
Theresienstadt concentration camp, Czechoslovakia
Other names Clementine Folkmann
Occupation Film actress
Stage actress
Years active 1918 - 1932 (film)

Clementine Plessner (1855–1943) 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[1] and F.W. Murnau's Journey into the Night.[2]

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

References

  1. Prawer p.77
  2. Eisner p.275

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