Johanna Hofer
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Johanna Hofer, born Johanna Therese Stern on 30 July 1896 in Berlin, was a German film actress and Broadway performer who died on 30 June 1988. Her father, Georg Stern, was an engineer who later became a director of AEG, and her mother, Lisbeth, née Schmidt, was the younger sister of artist Käthe Kollwitz. Hofer's father was Jewish and her mother was Lutheran. Among her siblings were her younger sisters Katta Sterna, a dancer, and Maria Matray, an actress.
Hofer built a film career spanning more than five decades, appearing in 34 films between 1926 and 1982. Her stage work brought her to Broadway in 1940, where she appeared in Another Sun.
The political climate of early 1930s Germany shaped the course of Hofer's life considerably. In 1932, she and her husband, Austrian actor Fritz Kortner, departed Germany and spent time in Switzerland, then Austria, and later the United Kingdom. The couple settled in the United States in 1938, initially residing in New York City. In 1941, they relocated from New York to Los Angeles.
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