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- Birth nameMargarethe Berg
- Grete Berger was born on February 11, 1883 in Jägerndorf, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Krnov, Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), The Student of Prague (1913) and Ein Sommernachtstraum in unserer Zeit (1914). She was married to Hanns Heinz Ewers. She died on May 23, 1944 in KZ Auschwitz, Germany.
- SpousesHanns Heinz EwersHanns Heinz Ewers (divorced)
- Grete Berger had been living in Florence since 1929. In August 1940, she was deported to San Donato Val Comino (FR) as part of the confino libero program of the fascist government. There she stayed with 28 other interned people until April 1944 when she was deported Auschwitz. Grete Berger divorced her first husband.
- She was known as Grete Berger - Reich when arrested by the Germans in 1944. Its presumed that she died shortly after her Deportation to a KZ in April 1944.
- She became known as the female lead of the Comtess Margit Schwarzenberg in the 1913 Stellan Rye and Paul Wegener-directed horror film The Student of Prague. Stellan Rye would also cast her in several other of his films, including several other horror films penned by Berger's then-romantic partner Hanns Heinz Ewers.
- In 1915 she dedicated to the theater again exclusively, only in 1921 she returned to the film business where she took part again in some important German silent movies.
- Grete Berger was born Margarethe Berg into a Jewish family in Austrian Silesia.
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