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Steffie Spira (2 June 1908 – 10 May 1995) was an Austrian-born German stage, film and television actress. Spira was the daughter of actors Fritz and Lotte Spira. Her sister was actress Camilla Spira. Her father was of Jewish descent, and died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Steffie Spira war eine deutsche Schauspielerin. Sie prägte als Volksschauspielerin stark die sozialistische Theaterkultur der DDR. Spira spielte unter anderem in Theaterstücken von Bertolt Brecht, Gerhart Hauptmann und Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol und wirkte in Film und Fernsehen mit.
Steffie Spira was born on 2 June 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse (1954), Tempel des Satans (1962) and Bürgermeister Anna (1950). She was married to Günther Ruschin. She died on 10 May 1995 in Berlin, Germany.
As the 15th and last speaker of the day, Steffie Spira, a revered actress whose physical persona was that of a plump elderly oma (grandma), addressed the crowd: In 1933 I went alone to a foreign country taking nothing with me.
Steffie Spira as Marie in the performance of Georg Büchner's Woyzeck at the Heinrich Heine-Klub, Mexico, July 1944
Mit Mann und Kind ging sie im August 1941 über Spanien und Portugal ins mexikanische Exil. In Mexiko nahm sie zunächst eine Arbeit als Kindermädchen an, um die Familie finanziell zu unterstützen. Ab 1943 wirkte sie als Schauspielerin und Regisseurin im Theater des Heinrich-Heine-Klubs.
Steffie Spira was born on 2 June 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse (1954), Tempel des Satans (1962) and Bürgermeister Anna (1950). She was married to Günther Ruschin.
Steffie Spira is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes Schneewittchen, Florentiner 73, The Tinder Box, Neues aus der Florentiner 73, Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class, The Goose Princess, The Baldheaded Gang, and ...inklusive Totenschein.
Steffi Spira became a prominent figure in GDR theatre. Inwardly, however, she was at odds with the reality of the state. On November 4, 1989, she was among the initiators of the mass demonstration at Alexanderplatz in East Berlin, where she demanded the resignation of the SED leadership under thunderous applause.
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