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 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 1925: A Midsummer Night's Dream 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 1929: Night Is Ours 1930: Flachsmann als Erzieher 1930: Rasputin, Demon with Women 1930: Woman in the Jungle 1930: Die zärtlichen Verwandten 1930: Vienna, City of Song 1930: Nur Du (Only You) 1931: Arm wie eine Kirchenmaus 1931: Die Firma heiratet (The Firm Weds) 1931: Wenn die Soldaten ... (When the Soldiers) 1931: Inquest 1931: Elisabeth of Austria 1932: Chauffeur Antoinette 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: Ein Lied geht um die Welt 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) (in German). Das große Lexikon der DDR-Stars. 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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Name	Ander, Charlotte
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Date of birth	14 August 1902
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Date of death	5 August 1969
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