Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel

Austrian actress

Berthold Viertel

(m. 1949; died 1953)

Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel (5 April 1900 – 24 December 1994) was an Austrian actress who started her career in Germany during the 1920s. Under the Nazi regime she emigrated to the United States, where she appeared on the Broadway and in a few Hollywood movies. She later returned to Germany, where she worked with numerous successful theatres of Berlin, among them Fritz Kortner's Berliner Bühnen. Neumann-Viertel was also a notable character actress in films and television, although she seldom played a leading role there. She retired in the late 1980s after nearly 70 years of acting. Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was the third wife of film director Berthold Viertel.

Partial filmography

Sister Veronika (1927)
The Merry Vineyard (1927) - Frl. Stenz
Doña Juana (1927) - Ines' Freundin Clara
M (1931) - (uncredited)
The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov (1931) - Fenja
Donogoo Tonka (1936) - Auswandererfrau
Boccaccio (1936) - Junge Frau aus Ferrara
Lucky Kids (1936)
Ave Maria (1936) - Konzertbesucherin
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943) - Mizzi
The House on 92nd Street (1945) - Freda Kassel (uncredited)
The Eternal Waltz (1954) - Mutter Strauß
Beichtgeheimnis (1956) - Frau Blendinger
The Secret Ways (1961) - Olga Kovac
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) - Flower Vendor (uncredited)
Freud: The Secret Passion (1962) - Frau Bernays, Martha's Mother (uncredited)
Kurzer Prozess (1967)
Heidi (1968, TV Movie) - Grandmother
Cabaret (1972) - Fraulein Schneider
The Odessa File (1974) - Frau Wenzer
Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi (1975, TV Series) - Einödbäuerin
Derrick (1978, TV Series) - Frau Ellweg
The Fifth Musketeer (1979) - Oberin im Kloster
The American Success Company (1980)
Peppermint Peace [de] (1983) - Grandmother
Happy Weekend (1983)
The Little Drummer Girl (1984) - Mrs. Minkel
Why Is There Salt in the Sea? (1988, TV Movie) - Uschi's Grandmother (final film role)