Brigitte Horney

Brigitte Horney was born and grew up in Dahlem, Berlin, the daughter of noted psychoanalyst Karen Horney.^{[citation needed]}

She was, for more than a decade, engaged with Berlin's Volksbühne.^{[citation needed]} When she accepted the starring role in the highly popular film Love, Death and the Devil (1934), a new star was born with the Leitmotif song "So oder so ist das Leben". Two years later she would play the love interest of famous actor Hans Albers’s character in the film Savoy Hotel 217.^{[citation needed]}

Horney was a good friend of the actor Joachim Gottschalk and appeared in four films with him.^{[citation needed]} Although Gottschalk had fallen from favor with Nazi officials, Horney attended Gottschalk's funeral (Germany, 1941), regardless of the political and career implications of doing so.^{[citation needed]}

After the Second World War she became an American citizen, but continued to visit Germany frequently, where she had a house in Bavaria.^{[citation needed]} She married the eminent Jewish art historian Hanns Swarzenski, a leading authority on German Romanesque manuscripts.^{[citation needed]}

She continued to work in films and television (i.e. Oliver Twist) until her death.^{[citation needed]} She died in Hamburg, June 27, 1988.^[1]