The very beautiful Carola Neher

Carola Neher (1900-1942), a famous actress of the Weimar years.

In 1925 she married Alfred Henschke (the poet Klabund), at that time already a successful poet.

In 1926, she went to Berlin to work with Bertolt Brecht. He wrote the role of Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera for her, but late in rehearsals her husband died. She was therefore unable to appear at the premiere, but acted the role of Polly in later performances.

Flying the Nazi terror, she fled to the Soviet Union, where she knew the tragic fate of other western communists : she ended up in a prison, where she died of typhus.