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Brigitte Horney was a notable German Germans

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theatre and film actress Actor

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. Best remembered was her role as Empress Katherine the Great in the 1943 version of the UFA film version of Baron Munchhausen directed by Josef von Baky with Hans Albers Hans Albers

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in the title role.

Brigitte Horney was the daughter of noted psychiatrist Else Danielsen and grew up in Dahlem. She was for more than a decade engaged by Berlin`s Volksbühne. When she accepted the starring role in the highly popular film Liebe, Tod und Teufel . A new star was born with the Leitmotif song "So oder so ist das Leben".

Horney was a good friend of the Jewish actor Joachim Gottschalk Joachim Gottschalk

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and appeared in four films with him. Although Gottschalk had fallen from favor with Nazi Nazism

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officials, Horney attended Gottschalk`s funeral , regardless of the political and career implications of doing so.

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she became an American citizen, but continued to visit Germany frequently, where she had a house in Bavaria. She continued to work in films and television until her death in 1988.