Lotte Spira

{{short description|German actress}} {{More footnotes needed|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | caption = . | name = Lotte Spira | birth_date = 24 April 1883 | birth_place = [[Berlin]], [[German Empire]] | death_date = {{death date and age|17 December 1943|24 April 1883}} | death_place = Berlin, [[Nazi Germany]] | birth_name = Charlotte Andresen | other_names = Lotte Spira-Andersen<br>Lotte Spira-Andresen | occupation = Film and stage actress | years_active = 1923-1943 (film) | spouse = [[Fritz Spira]] (1905–1934; divorced) | children = [[Camilla Spira]]<br>[[Steffie Spira]] }}

'''Lotte Spira''' ({{IPA|de|ˈlɔ.tə ˈʃpiː.ʁaː|lang|De-Lotte Spira.ogg}}; 24 April 1883 – 17 December 1943) was a German [[stage actor|stage]] and [[film actress]]. She appeared in [[supporting role]]s in around seventy films.

She was married to the Austrian actor [[Fritz Spira]] in 1905. In 1934 she divorced her [[Jewish]] husband under duress from the [[Nazi]] authorities. During the [[Second World War]] she signed a statement swearing Spira was not the real father of her daughter [[Camilla Spira]], who was being held at [[Westerbork transit camp]] in the [[Netherlands]].<ref>Baer p. 118</ref>

Shortly after Lotte Spira received news of her ex-husband's death in a concentration camp in [[Yugoslavia]], she died of natural causes, aged 60. Her other daughter [[Steffie Spira]], also an actress, managed to escape into exile.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

==Selected filmography== * ''[[Hallig Hooge]]'' (1923) * ''[[The False Prince (1927 film)|The False Prince]]'' (1927) * ''[[Waltz of Love]]'' (1930) * ''[[Love's Carnival (1930 film)|Love's Carnival]]'' (1930) * ''[[Ash Wednesday (1931 film)|Ash Wednesday]]'' (1931) * ''[[Impossible Love (film)|Impossible Love]]'' (1932) * ''[[Scandal in Budapest]]'' (1933) * ''[[The Lost Valley]]'' (1934) * ''[[Hermine and the Seven Upright Men]]'' (1935) * ''[[Lady Windermere's Fan (1935 film)|Lady Windermere's Fan]]'' (1935) * ''[[Confetti (1936 film)|Confetti]]'' (1936) * ''[[Victoria in Dover (1936 film)|Victoria in Dover]]'' (1936) *''[[The Unknown (1936 film)|The Unknown]]'' (1936) * ''[[Dangerous Game (1937 film)|Dangerous Game]]'' (1937) * ''[[The Irresistible Man]]'' (1937) * ''[[The Mystery of Betty Bonn]]'' (1938) * ''[[The Mountain Calls]]'' (1938) *''[[The Secret Lie]]'' (1938) * ''[[Congo Express (film)|Congo Express]]'' (1939) * ''[[The Governor (1939 film)|The Governor]]'' (1939) * ''[[The Right to Love (1939 film)|The Right to Love]]'' (1939) * ''[[The Scoundrel (1939 film)|The Scoundrel]]'' (1939) * ''[[Woman at the Wheel]]'' (1939) * ''[[The Journey to Tilsit]]'' (1939) * ''[[Maria Ilona]]'' (1939) * ''[[Bel Ami (1939 film)|Bel Ami]]'' (1939) * ''[[Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree (1940 film)|Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree]]'' (1940) * ''[[The Unfaithful Eckehart (1940 film)|The Unfaithful Eckehart]]'' (1940) * ''[[Eine kleine Nachtmusik (film)|Eine kleine Nachtmusik]]'' (1940) * ''[[Kora Terry]]'' (1940) * ''[[Six Days of Leave]]'' (1941) * ''[[Zirkus Renz]]'' (1943) * ''[[The Woman of My Dreams (1944 film)|The Woman of My Dreams]]'' (1944)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Baer, Hester. ''Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language''. Berghahn Books, 2012.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0819023}}

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