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- Heinrich Greif was born on March 11, 1907 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Struggle (1936), Vosstaniye rybakov (1934) and Girl No. 217 (1945). He died on July 16, 1946 in Berlin, Germany.
- Since 1951 the Eastern German state decorated outstanding film people with the Heinrich-Greif-Preis medal, like e.g. Ulrich Plenzdorf.
- 1935-37 announcer of the German-language programmes of Radio Moscow.
- Greif carried on with actress Lotte Loebinger while she was still married to German politician Herbert Wehner (then Communist, famous post-war Social Democrat). When she confused the envelopes for two letters to her husband and her lover, Wehner found out about their relationship and immediately fainted.
- In 1934-1935 he played theater in Zurich, and went then to Moscow, where he worked until 1945 as chief editor of the German edition of Radio Moscow and acted in films.
- Since 1926, he studied in the studio at the theater Volksbühne under the direction of Erwin Piscator.
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