Gertrud Eysoldt

Overview

Gertrud Eysoldt born Pirna, Saxony, Germany November 30, 1870 (d. 1955). Theater and film actress, drama teacher, and radio announcer. Pacifist; socialist; feminist. Key figure of German Expressionist movement with Max Reinhardt. Led internationalist program Comrades in Humanity, 1926.

Quotations

“I am broken by it—I suffer—I cry out against this extreme violence—” (reaction to first reading of von Hofmannsthal’s “Electra”, in Erika Fischer-Lichte, Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual, 2005, p. 9; photo Berlin Theater School)