Clementine Plessner

Clementine Plessner (7 December 1855 – 27 February 1943) was an Austrian stage and film actress. Plessner worked in the German film industry and appeared in over sixty films, mostly during the silent era. Plessner featured in Richard Oswald's enlightenment film Different from the Others^[1] and F.W. Murnau's Journey into the Night.^[2]

Clementine Plessner
Born	Clementine Folkmann 7 December 1855 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	27 February 1943 (aged 87) Theresienstadt concentration camp, Czechoslovakia
Years active	1918–1932

Following the Nazi rise to power, the Jewish actress left Germany for neighbouring Austria. Later, after the Anchluss, she was arrested by the Nazi authorities and died in Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Selected filmography

• Diary of a Lost Woman (1918)
• The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918)
• Henriette Jacoby (1918)
• Different from the Others (1919)
• Nocturne of Love (1919)
• The Tragedy of a Great (1920)
• Humanity Unleashed (1920)
• Lady Hamilton (1921)
• Journey into the Night (1921)
• The Shadow of Gaby Leed (1921)
• The Circle of Death (1922)
• Bigamy (1922)
• Lucrezia Borgia (1922)
• Hallig Hooge (1923)
• Taras Bulba (1924)
• Gobseck (1924)
• Girls You Don't Marry (1924)
• Slaves of Love (1924)
• The Voice of the Heart (1924)
• Two Children (1924)
• The Circus Princess (1925)
• The Iron Bride (1925)
• Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days (1925)
• The Clever Fox (1926)
• Superfluous People (1926)
• The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden (1926)
• Only a Dancing Girl (1926)
• Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman (1926)
• The Eleven Schill Officers (1926)
• The Captain from Koepenick (1926)
• The Right to Live (1927)
• The White Sonata (1928)
• The Missing Wife (1929)
• Der Monte Christo von Prag (1929)
• Devotion (1929)