Full Name Marta Wolter Spouse Walter Husemann | Occupation actor | |
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Born 20 August 1913 ( 1913-08-20 ) Berlin Died 30 June 1960, Berlin, Germany | ||
Marta Husemann (née Wolter 20 August 1913 Berlin - 30 June 1960) was a German actress and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, among others. in the Red Orchestra.
Life
Husemann trained as a tailor and entered 1928 in the KJVD. In 1931 she was member of the KPD. In the classic film Kuhle Wampe of Slatan Dudow they played as "Gerda" one of the two female leads. The experiences they had as an actress, it processed in 1935 with her screenplay for the short feature film Five People Search terminal. The film was shot in the direction of Jürgen von Alten in the Berlin department store KaDeWe.
In the same year she was interrogated for the first time by the Gestapo. In November 1936, she was arrested and the following March to June 1937 at Moringen as "Vorbeugehäftling" - euphemistically known as protective custody - detention.
Together with her husband Walter Husemannstraße, she was then active in the antifascist circle of the Red Orchestra to Harro Schulze-Boysen. Often the group met unobserved by the Gestapo at Schloss Liebenberg the couple Schulze-Boysen. Particularly intensive contacts existed for couple Gerhard and Gerda Sredzki who participated actively in the Saefkow-Jacob-Bästlein Organization in the resistance against Nazism.
On 19 September 1942, she was arrested again, sentenced to 4 years in prison in January 1943 by the Reich Military Court. The director of the Concentration Camp Moringen, Ursula Gerecht, reported in her presentation Marta Wolter and "Kuhle Wampe" - The story of a woman and the story of a film: "Marta Husemannstraße first wrote in her prison diary: ..., the whole department 5 is full of our women. There are a lot, ... '; about Libertas Schulze-Boysen wrote: A guy you never in the illegal work should have been inaugurated. No conscious traitor. But easy to get through their boundless vanity to speak'."
In 1945, Marta Husemannstraße was freed from the women penitentiary Leipzig Small Meusdorf by the Red Army.
After the war, she worked in the KPD district headquarters in East Berlin. After remarriage, she took the name Martha Jendretzky.