Margarete Neff

Margarete Neff was born in 1892 in Vienna, Austria, Austria-Hungary.

She made her stage debut at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1909, later followed engagements at different theaters in Germany.

She was an actress, known for Die Liebe der Marion Bach (1919), Die Mali (1920) and Hyänen auf dem Schlachtfelde des Lebens. 2.

Die Apachen von Paris (1920). She was married to Alfred Junck and Rudolf Klein-Rogge.

Her last cinematical works came already at the beginning of the 20's into being. When she acted in her movie "Die Nächte des Cornelius Brouwer" (1921) she appeared at the actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge's side. They became closer to each other and finally got married. After that Margarete Neff retired from the film business.

After her divorce from the actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge she continued her acting career, though not in the film business but exclusively at the theater, among others at the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar till 1935 before she had to emigrate to Austria because of her Jewish origins. With the fusion of Germany and Austria the political persecution began again.

Her husband was arrested in 1938 and her domicile was wrecked by the SA. It followed a running the gauntlet through different authorities in order to rescue her husband. Finally she also addressed herself to Emmy Göring and some weeks later her husband was released. It lasted several more months before they were able to emigrate to Zurich in March 1939. Later they went to the USA where she where she was active at the emigration ensemble.