Emmy Göring ( German Emmy Göring , nee Emma Johann Henny Sonnemann ( German Emma Johanna Henny Sonnemann ); March 24, 1893 , Hamburg - June 8, 1973 , Munich ) - German theater and film actress. The second wife of Hermann Goering .
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Emma was the youngest of five children in the family. She received an acting education from the Hamburg director Leopold Jesner . The first time she married an actor from Stuttgart, Karl Köstlin, but the marriage was unsuccessful, and a few years later they divorced. Since 1924 she was a member of the permanent troupe of the Weimar Professional Theater, specializing in the roles of romantic heroines.
In 1931 she met Hermann Goering , and after the death of his wife Karin, they began to live together. April 10, 1935 married Goering; their wedding was celebrated with great fanfare in Karinhalle . July 2, 1938 they had a daughter, Edda , who was believed to be named after the eldest daughter of Mussolini Edda . The godfather of Goering was Adolf Hitler .
Hitler himself was not married, and Emmy Goering was secretly considered the " first lady " of Germany. Along with trying to play the same role, Magda Goebbels led various charitable events.
At the end of World War II, together with her daughter Edda was captured by the United States. At the end of the war and after the death of her husband in a “denazification court” in 1948, Emmy Goering was sentenced to confiscate 30% of her property and one year of labor camps; in addition, she was forbidden to perform on stage for five years. In the 1960s, she settled with her daughter Edda in Munich. In 1967, her memoirs An der Seite meines Mannes (“Next to My Husband”) were published. After a long illness, she died in a Munich hospital in 1973.
Filmography
- Goethe lebt ...! (1932);
- Wilhelm Tell - Das Freiheitsdrama eines Volkes (1934) as Hedwig, Tell's wife;
- Guillaume Tell (1934);
- Oberwachtmeister Schwenke (1935) as Rena, the wife of the protagonist.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118540149 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 filmportal.de - 2005.
Literature
- Anna Maria Sigmund: Die Frauen der Nazis. Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 7. Auflage, München 2000
- Emmy Göring: An der Seite meines Mannes. Nation Europa Verlag, Coburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-920677-67-5 .
- Werner Fritsch: Enigma Emmy Göring (Monolog), Frankfurt / Main, Suhrkamp 2007