Therese Giehse
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Emerging from a Munich Jewish household, she adopted the stage name Giehse at twenty-two and began rehearsing with the Stage Society for Primitive and Expressionist Art in 1920. After establishing herself as a leading actress at the Munich Kammerspiele through the early 1930s, she fled to Zürich when the Nazis seized power, where she starred in Erika Mann’s political cabaret Die Pfeffermühle and t…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
