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- Hertha Thiele was born on May 8, 1908 in Leipzig, Germany. She was an actress, known for Mädchen in Uniform (1931), Little Man What Now (1933) and Elisabeth und der Narr (1934). She was married to Heinz Klingenberg and Wolfgang Wohlgemuth. She died on August 5, 1984 in East Berlin, East Germany.
- SpousesHeinz Klingenberg(1932 - 1936) (divorced)Wolfgang Wohlgemuth
- After the movie 'Mädchen in Uniform' (1931)she was reunited again with Dorothea Wieck in another lesbian-themed film, Anna und Elisabeth (1933), which was banned by the Nazis soon after it opened and which she later said was the most important work of her career.
- Towards the end of her life, western feminists researching the history of Mädchen in Uniform sought her out and she enjoyed a small measure of renewed cult celebrity before she died in 1984.
- In 1931 she was given the lead role in the film adaptation of a play she had done there, Gestern und heute but now called Mädchen in Uniform, a tale set in a Prussian boarding school for girls. The film had an all-female cast and Thiele played Manuela, a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl deeply infatuated with her teacher, Fräulein von Bernburg who was played by Dorothea Wieck. Mädchen in Uniform was distributed internationally and briefly made Thiele a star. She received thousands of fan letters, mostly from women.
- One of her early drama teachers told Thiele, "Either you'll have a great stage career or nothing at all. You have a Botticelli face but one which suggests depravity".
- Her favorite movie was Anna and Elizabeth (1933).
- To Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany's propaganda minister, when she refused to assist in the production of propaganda movies: "I don't blow with the wind each time it changes directions."
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