East Germany after the war but was unsuccessful in her efforts to begin a theatre. She returned to Switzerland and worked as a psychiatric nursing assistant during most of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, Thiele again returned to the GDR, working in stage productions in Magdeburg and Leipzig. During the 1970s, she was often seen on East German television acting in sundry series and television films which were virtually unknown in West Germany, including the popular Polizeiruf 110. In 1975, Thiele's work was featured in the television documentary Das Herz auf der linken Seite and in 1983 a monograph on her life and work was published by Deutsche Kinemathek. Thiele reportedly married more than once. One of her husbands was actor Heinz Klingenberg. Toward the end of her life, Western feminists researching the history of Mädchen in Uniform sought her out, and she enjoyed a small measure of renewed cult celebrity before she died in 1984. In 1998 German film historians Heide Schlüpmann and Karola Gramman noted "her acting success may well have been based upon her image which met the homo-erotic desires of both men and women, though perhaps more those of women", and that Hertha Thiele "told us she would have liked to have played a 'proper love scene' with a man, once in her life: her image, moulded by men, didn't allow her the expression of this desire". Filmography before 1937 Mädchen in Uniform (1931) directed by Leontine Sagan Kuhle Wampe (1932) written by Bertold Brecht Mrs. Lehmann's Daughters (1932) Man Without a Name (1932) The Eleven Schill Officers (1932) The First Right of the Child (1932) Little Man, What Now? (1933) Anna and Elizabeth (1933) Ripening Youth (1933) Elisabeth and the Fool (1934) Filmography after 1966 Geheimcode b 13 (1967) Der Mörder sitzt im Wembley-Stadion (1970) Herr Peter Squenz (1971) Husaren in Berlin (1971) Istanbul-Masche (1971) Lützower (1972) Florentiner 73 (1972) Reife Kirschen (1972) The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973) Neues aus der Florentiner 73 (1974) Die Bibliothekarin (1976) Hostess (1976) Die unverbesserliche Barbara (1977) Don Juan, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 78 (1979) Insel im See (1980) East German television series Polizeiruf 110: Minuten zu spät (1972) Die Verschworenen (1972) Adam und Eva (1973) Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort: ...und wenn ich nein sage? (1973) Polizeiruf 110: Schwarze Ladung (1976) External links Virtual History - Photographs 1908 births 1984 deaths German stage actresses 20th-century German actresses German