Else Bassermann was not only active as an actress but also wrote numerous screenplays for German silent movies under the pen name Hans Hennings.
Screen and stage actress.
The Bassermann's returned to Europe after the war and in 1949 they also appeared again in Germany for the first time since their emigration.
She did no longer take part in movies but remained active on stage.
When Else Bassermann was refused to take part at a guest performance in Leipzig because of her Jewish extraction her husband - Albert Bassermann - left the Reichstheaterkammer and the couple went to Switzerland.
The actress Else Bassermann made her stage debut at the Köln Residenztheater in 1902, one year later she acted in Nuremberg before she went to Berlin in 1904, among others working at the Lessingtheater and for Max Reinhardt.