Anecdotes

After her first husband rented a cabaret theater, she started her career on stage.

Although being a popular comedian in many movies, she refused to join the Nazi party after the takeover in 1933.

Buried in a honorary grave on the Heerstraße cemetery in Berlin.

The film offers dropped off in the 60's and she played more often at the theater again.

She managed to finance and arrange for her previous husband and her son to survive the Nazi years in Switzerland, as well as at the same time continue her career in Germany.

Grethe Weiser and her husband were killed in an accident near Bad Tölz.

She escaped from her dominant and sometimes violent father by marrying a Jewish confectionery manufacturer in 1920.

She made her first acting experiences with small appearances at the cabaret Charlott. Later followed engagements at operettas and theaters where she already showed her comic talent.

The actress Grethe Weiser was born as Mathilde Ella Dorothea Margarethe Nowka in Hannover, but she impersonated the Berliner "trap" as such and became very popular as a film comedienne in countless movies.

To her early movies belong "Kasernenzauber" (30), "Der Mann mit der Pranke" (1935), "Einer zuviel an Bord" (1935), "Familie Schimek" (1935), "Eskapade" (1936) and "Menschen ohne Vaterland" (1937). Eventually followed her parade role in "Die göttliche Jette" (1937), which achieved her that popularity which she maintained easily in the next twenty years.

She made her film debut in the silent movie era with "Männer vor der Ehe" (1927), but only in the 30's she had one success after the other with her talkies.

Quite quickly she established herself in the cabaret scene in Berlin, especially after her husband became a leaseholder of a nightclub on the Kurfürstendamm.

The comedy movies became her absolute province after the war. With more movies than before she entertained the audience and the audiences loved it to be entertained by her.

A street in Neu-Ulm was named after her. It is close to a movie theater and other actor-named streets.

Weiser had a lifelong relationship with Hermann Schwerin, a UFA film producer, which began in 1934, but the couple were not married until 1958.