Maria Fein

Maria Fein , was a JewishCatholic actress from Vienna who became a star of German theatre and film before the rise of Adolf Hitler forced her departure. During her time in Germany she was largely associated with the theatrical producerdirector Max Reinhardt and had acted in plays by such writers as Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Friedrich Schiller, William Shakespeare, Aeschylus and Ferdinand Bruckner.

Fein was born in Vienna to a Jewish family that reportedly at some point converted to Catholicism. She was the daughter of Fanny Sssermann and Otto Fein, editor of the Neue Freie Presse, and an older sister of Franz Fein, an author and translator of American novels, Fein married the German actor Theodor Becker with whom she had two daughters, Thea and actress Maria Becker. Feins marriage to Becker ended in divorce in the mid1930s after a long separation.

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