Background
Brigitte Horney was the daughter of noted psychoanalyst Karen Horney and grew up in Dahlem, as of 1920 a locality of Berlin.
Brigitte Horney was the daughter of noted psychoanalyst Karen Horney and grew up in Dahlem, as of 1920 a locality of Berlin.
Best remembered was her role as Empress Katherine the Great in the 1943 version of the UFA film version of Baron Münchhausen, directed by Josef von Báky, with Hans Albers in the title role. She was, for more than a decade, engaged with Berlin"s Volksbühne. When she accepted the starring role in the highly popular film Liebe, Tod und Teufel (Love, Death and the Devil, 1934), a new star was born with the Leitmotif song "So oder so ist das Leben".
Although Gottschalk had fallen from favor with Nazi officials, Horney attended Gottschalk"s funeral (Germany, 1941), regardless of the political and career implications of doing southern
After the Second World War 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 (ie Oliver Twist) until her death in 1988.