Sabine Peters (29 December 1912 – 10 October 1982) was a German

film actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. Peters emerged as a film actress during the

Nazi era Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

, and played largely

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s. She was one of the companions of the title in the 1938

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vehicle '' The Four Companions''.Chandler p.59 She was married to the baritone Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender. The mezzo-soprano

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is their daughter.

Selected filmography

* '' Eight Girls in a Boat'' (1932) * '' Ripening Youth'' (1933) * '' Financial Opportunists'' (1934) * ''

The Girl Irene ''The Girl Irene'' () is a 1936 German drama film directed by Reinhold Schünzel and starring Lil Dagover, Sabine Peters and Geraldine Katt.Kreimeier p. 237 It is based on the British play ''Sixteen'' by Aimée Stuart about the widowed mother o ...

'' (1936) * '' The Castle in Flanders'' (1936) * ''

The Beaver Coat ''The Beaver Coat'' () is a satirical play by Gerhart Hauptmann premiered in Berlin in 1893. The work is an example of a German naturalistic ''Diebskomödie'', or 'thief's comedy'. The drama takes place "somewhere in Berlin... around the end of ...

'' (1937) * '' Talking About Jacqueline'' (1937) *'' The Chief Witness'' (1937) * ''

The Glass Ball ''The Glass Ball'' () is a 1937 German drama film directed by Peter Stanchina and starring Albrecht Schoenhals, Sabine Peters, and Hilde von Stolz.Bock & Bergfelder p. 193 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Guelstorff an ...

'' (1937) * '' The Night of Decision'' (1938) * '' The Four Companions'' (1938) * '' A Prussian Love Story'' (1938) * '' Friedemann Bach'' (1941) * ''

The Marriage of Figaro ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienn ...

'' (1949)

References

Bibliography

* Chandler, Charlotte. ''Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography''. Simon and Schuster, 2007.

External links

* 1912 births 1982 deaths German film actresses Actresses from Berlin 20th-century German actresses {{Germany-film-actor-1910s-stub