Career
Under the Nazi regime she emigrated to the United States, where she appeared on the Broadway and in a few Hollywood movies. She later returned to Germany where she worked with numerous successful theatres of Berlin, among them Fritz Kortner"s Berliner Bühnen. Neumann-Viertel was also a notable character actress in films and television, although she seldomly played a leading role there.
She retired in the late 1980s after nearly 70 years of acting.
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was the second wife of film director Berthold Viertel.