Bettina Moissi Explained

Bettina Moissi
Birth Date:	1923 10, df=yes
Birth Place:	Berlin, Germany
Death Place:	Zurich, Switzerland
Parents:	Aleksandër Moisiu Herta Hambach
Spouse:	Heinz Berggruen
Children:	Olivier Berggruen Nicolas Berggruen
Occupation:	Actress
Yearsactive:	1941–1950 (film)

Bettina Moissi (15 October 1923 – 21 November 2023) was a German stage and film actress. She played the character Victorine in the 1941 film The Comedians.

Biography

Bettina Moissi was born in Berlin on 15 October 1923, the second child of leading stage actor Aleksandër Moisiu. Her father was often branded as Jewish due to his name (which translates as "Moses") and his outspoken defense of his fellow Jewish actors and people during a period of growing antisemitism.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} She was Catholic but was married to Heinz Berggruen who was Jewish.^[5]

Personal life

In 1960, she married the art collector Heinz Berggruen. He predeceased her in 2007.^[6] They had two children:^[7]

• Olivier Berggruen, curator at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
• Nicolas Berggruen, a financier and art collector

Moissi died in Zurich on 21 November 2023, at the age of 100.^[8]

Selected filmography

• The Comedians (1941) as Victorine
• In Those Days (1947) as Marie
• The Original Sin (1948) as Eva Meier-Eden
• Long Is the Road (1948) as Dora Berkowicz
• The Orplid Mystery (1950) as Leata

Bibliography

• Shandley, Robert R. Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Temple University Press, 2001.

Notes and References

1. http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00001408/00010/5j?search=moissi The Jacobean: "Alexander Moissi, Non-Jewish Actor, Indicts Christian World for its Persecution of the Jew"
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Tsq5iQzk6rsC&dq=aleksander+moissi+%2Bjew&pg=PT168 Becoming Austrians:Jews and Culture between the World Wars By Lisa Silverman
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=bBufAAAAIAAJ&q=+moissi+jew&pg=PA335 Bernard Shaw's Letters to Siegfried Trebitsch
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=geJnnySQ4rUC&q=moissi+&pg=PA131 Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre edited by Jeanette R. Malkin, Freddie Rokem
5. http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-52909367.html Der Spiegel: "Seinen Geist am Leben erhalten" by Ulrike Von Knöfel and Martin Doerry (in German)
6. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/arts/design/27berggruen.html Heinz Berggruen, Influential Picasso Collector, Dies at 93
7. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/arts/design/27berggruen.html?_r=2ex=1172725200&en=e1e5afb9ab38bd68&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin& New York Times: "Heinz Berggruen, Influential Picasso Collector, Dies at 93" By ALAN RIDING
8. News: Berggruen-Söhne trauern um ihre Mutter (100) . 18 December 2023 . Bild . 16 December 2023.