Anecdotes

She lived in the 1970s with the actress Marianne Hoppe together in a solid community life.

She began her career at the theater and in parallel she also entered the film business.

Her activity on stage increased again from 1933 and at the old age she also took part in front of the camera again, this time for TV productions.

With the end of World War I she had bear the lost of her brother, the actor Ernst Mewes, who served as a private and was killed in action in France. In the same year she started an intensive correspondence with the writer Rainer Maria Rilke.

She did not appear in any movies during World War I and therefore she played on stage more often again, among others in Berlin, Vienna, Munich and Hamburg.

She continued her acting career in the 20s successfully. On the one hand she played in Berlin for Max Reinhardt, on the other hand she also took part again in some silent movies.

Annie Mewes was married twice, both marriages were divorced.

Workers in Berlin were in 2010 digging a tunnel for a new subway when they found a bronze bust in the shovel of a front loader. It turned out that the bust was made by German sculptor Edwin Scharff, with actress Anni Mewes as its subject. The work was one of thousands labeled as "degenerate" art by Hitler's regime and paraded around the country in 1937 and featured in a 1941 anti-Semitic propaganda film in an attempt to ridicule modern art.