Gertrude Samosch Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Valeska Gert was born on January 11, 1892 in Berlin, Germany as Gertrude Samosch. She was an actress, known for Juliet of the Spirits (1965), The 3 Penny Opera (1931) and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929). She was married to Robin Hay Anderson and Helmuth von Krause. She died on March 15, 1978 in Kampen, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
In London she worked on the experimental short film Pett and Pot, which would long stand as her last movie. While in London, she wed an English writer, Robin Hay Anderson, her second marriage.
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Besides the dance she also wrote articles for magazines like "Die Weltbühne" and the "Berliner Tageszeitung".
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In the years of World War I she adjoined a Berliner dance group and created first dance satires. Finally it followed an engagement at the Deutsches Theater where she had a huge success in eccentric roles for avant-garde plays.
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Tennessee Williams also worked for her for a short time as a busboy, but was fired for refusing to pool his tips. Gert commented that his work was "so sloppy".
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In a 1977 television show, the interviewer tactfully suggested that by the dawn of the 1950's Gert was perhaps not so well remembered as before. With typical self-deprecating humor and bluntness typical for Berliners, she exclaimed, "Not so well remembered? I was totally forgotten!".
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On 18 March 1978 neighbors and friends in Kampen, Germany, reported she had not been seen for four days. When her door was forced in the presence of police she was found dead. She is believed to have died on 16 March. She was 86 years old.
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By 1941, she had opened the Beggar Bar in New York. It was a cabaret/restaurant that was filled with mismatched furniture. Julian Beck, Judith Malina, and Jackson Pollock worked for her.
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In 1947 she returned to Europe where she managed the cabaret "Hexenküche", in the 60's she made her comeback for the film.
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She emigrated to the USA in 1938 where tried to get work in vain. She lived from the welfare of a Jewish refugee committee, beside it she worked as plate cleaner and nude model.
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In 1978 Werner Herzog invited her to play the real estate broker Knock in his remake of Murnau's classic film Nosferatu. The contract was signed March 1st but she died just two weeks later before filming began.
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By 1944, Gert had relocated to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she opened Valeska's. Here, she reunited with Tennessee Williams. She told him stories of hiring a seventy-year-old midget named Mademoiselle Pumpernickel who became jealous whenever Gert went onstage. During this period, she was called to Provincetown court for throwing garbage out of her window and failing to pay a dance partner. She called upon Williams as a character witness, which he did with pleasure, despite her having fired him. He told incredulous friends that he "simply liked her".
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She got married in second marriage with an English writer.
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In 2010 the art of Valeska Gert was presented at the Berlin Museum for Contemporary Art Hamburger Bahnhof, in the exhibition Pause. Bewegte Fragmente (Pause. Fragments in motion). The curators Wolfgang Müller from the art punk band Die Tödliche Doris (The Deadly Doris) and art historican An Paenhuysen included a video Baby showing Gert performing. Baby had been unknown until this show. It was recorded by Erich Mitzka in 1969.
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With her part in the successful Italian production "Giulietta degli spiriti - Julia und die Geister" (1964) she recommended herself for some young German directors in the 70's, who went down in film history as far as she's.
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Her career in Germany ended in 1933 because she was a Jewess. From now on she danced in Paris, Budapest and London.
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German-Jewish actress and dancer of eccentric personality and dark, aquiline features. Her radical interpretations of modern dance are now regarded as having been ahead of her time. She first studied dance from the age of six and took acting lessons from Alexander and Maria Moissi. She performed in cabaret and pantomime in Berlin and at the Munich Kammerspiele during the 1920's and also acted in silent films. She was forced to leave Germany after the Nazis came to power in 1933.
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During her enforced exile, she ended up in New York in 1938, living on welfare, washing dishes and, occasionally, working as a nude model. By 1941, she operated a tumbledown cabaret-restaurant, the 'Beggar's Bar'. Upon her return to Germany in 1950, she managed a similar operation in Berlin, the 'Hexenkueche' (Witch's Kitchen'), before being rediscovered for the screen by Fellini.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Coup de grâce
1976
Tante Praskovia
Die Betörung der blauen Matrosen
1975
Ein alter Vogel
Acht Stunden sind kein Tag
1973
TV Mini-Series
Juliet of the Spirits
1965
Pijma
Rio
1939
Specialty (uncredited)
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
1934
Short
The Maid
The 3 Penny Opera
1931
Mrs. Peachum
Takový je zivot
1930
Waitress
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929
The director's wife
A Daughter of Destiny
1928
Ein Mädchen von der Gasse
Nana
1926
Zoe - la femme de chambre
The Joyless Street
1925
Frau Greifer (uncredited)
Ein Sommernachtstraum
1925
Puck
Colomba
1918
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nur zum Spaß, nur zum Spiel
1977
Documentary
Je später der Abend...
1975
TV Series
Herself
Pariser Journal
1969
TV Series documentary
Herself
Menschen am Sonntag
1930
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Cabaret-Berlin, la scène sauvage
2010
TV Movie documentary
Herself, cabaret dancer
Das Jahrhundert des Kabaretts
2001
TV Mini-Series documentary
Herself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1970
Honorary Award
German Film Awards
For her continued outstanding individual contributions to the german film over the years.
Known for movies
Juliet of the Spirits (1965) as Pijma
The 3 Penny Opera (1931) as Mrs. Peachum
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) as The director's wife
$500,000
