Lotte Spira

Lotte Spira
Born	24 April 1883 Berlin, German Empire
Died	17 December 1943 (aged 60) Berlin, Nazi Germany
Other names	Lotte Spira-Andersen
Occupation	Film actor Stage actor
Years active	1923-1943 (film)

Lotte Spira (24 April 1883 – 17 December 1943) was a German stage and film actress. She appeared in supporting roles in around seventy films.

She was married to the Austrian actor Fritz Spira in 1905. In 1934 she divorced her Jewish husband under duress from the Nazi authorities. During the Second World War she signed a statement swearing that Fritz Spira was not the real father of her actress daughter Camilla Spira, who was being held at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.^[1] Shortly after Lotte Spira received news of her ex-husband's death at Ruma Concentration Camp in Yugoslavia, she died of natural causes. Her other daughter Steffie Spira, also an actress, managed to escape into exile.

Selected filmography

• Hallig Hooge (1923)
• The False Prince (1927)
• Waltz of Love (1930)
• Scandal in Budapest (1933)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (1935)
• Konfetti (1936)
• Victoria in Dover (1936)
• The Mystery of Betty Bonn (1938)
• The Mountain Calls (1938)
• Kongo-Express (1939)
• Der Gouverneur (1939)
• The Scoundrel (1939)
• Woman at the Wheel (1939)
• The Journey to Tilsit (1939)
• Maria Ilona (1939)
• Bel Ami (1939)
• The Unfaithful Eckehart (1940)
• Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1940)
• Kora Terry (1940)
• Zirkus Renz (1943)
• The Woman of My Dreams (1944)

References

1. Baer p.118

Bibliography

• Baer, Hester. Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language. Berghahn Books, 2012.

External links

• Lotte Spira at the Internet Movie Database