Occupation Actress Years active 1930–83 | Name Brigitte Horney Role Theatre actress | |
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Parents Oscar Horney, Karen Horney Awards German Film Award - Honorary Award Movies and TV shows The Adventures of Baron, Huckleberry Finn and His Friends, Abschied, The Trygon Factor, The Inheritance of Bjorndal Similar People Josef von Baky, Karen Horney, Carl‑Heinz Schroth, Jurgen Goslar, Victor Tourjansky |
Barriers part 27 episode 9 3 with guest brigitte horney
Brigitte Horney (29 March 1911 in Dahlem, Berlin – 27 July 1988, in Hamburg) was a German theatre and film actress. 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.
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- Barriers part 27 episode 9 3 with guest brigitte horney
- So oder so ist das leben gesungen von brigitte horney 1934
- Life and work
- Filmography
- References

So oder so ist das leben gesungen von brigitte horney 1934
Life and work

Brigitte Horney was the daughter of noted psychoanalyst Karen Horney and grew up in Dahlem, as of 1920 a locality of Berlin. 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".

Horney was a good friend of the actor Joachim Gottschalk and appeared in four films with him. 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 so.

After the Second World War she became an American citizen, but continued to visit Germany frequently, where she had a house in Bavaria. She married the eminent Jewish art historian Hanns Swarzenski, a leading authority on German Romanesque manuscripts. She continued to work in films and television (i.e. Oliver Twist) until her death in 1988.