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) Bibliography External links 1878 births 1961 deaths German stage actresses German film actresses German silent film actresses Film people from Leipzig Actors from Leipzig Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States German expatriates in Switzerland 20th-century German actresses German screenwriters American women screenwriters German women screenwriters 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American screenwriters