Elsa Bassermann

German actress

Albert Bassermann

(m. 1908; died 1952)

Elsa Bassermann (born Elsa Sarah Schiff; January 14, 1878 – May 30, 1961) was a German screenwriter, stage and film actress. She was married to Albert Bassermann and often acted with him. As she was Jewish the couple had to leave Nazi Germany and go into exile in Switzerland and the United States. She later returned to Germany, where she died in 1961.

Partial filmography

Gerda Gerovius (1913)
Der letzte Tag (1913)
Urteil des Arztes (1914)
Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben (1917)
Der eiserne Wille (1917)
Herr und Diener (1917)
Father and Son (1918)
The Zaarden Brothers (1918)
Doctor Schotte (1918)
Lorenzo Burghardt (1918)
Das Werk seines Lebens (1919) - Friedel
Eine schwache Stunde (1919)
Die Duplizität der Ereignisse (1920)
The Voice (1920)
The Sons of Count Dossy (1920) - Gräfin
Masks (1920)
Dolls of Death (1920) - Konstanze
Der Frauenarzt (1921) - Frau Dr. Holländer
The Last Witness (1921)
Lucrezia Borgia (1922)
Christopher Columbus (1923) - Ehefrau des Columbus
Alraune (1930) - A lady
Dreyfus (1930) - Parisian lady
A Woman Branded (1931) - Frau Thorn, Ilses Mutter
Kadetten (1931) - Gräfin Kleist
Last Love (1935) - Hanna von Hooven
Escape (1940) - Mrs. Henning
New Wine (1941) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Desperate Journey (1942) - Frau Raeder
Madame Curie (1943) - Madame Perot
The Captain from Köpenick (completed in 1941, released in 1945) (aka I Was a Criminal) - Mrs. Marie Hoprecht
Rhapsody in Blue (1945) - Guest (uncredited) (final film role)