Biography

German actress, singer and dancer. A noted cabaret and comic performer at the Scala and Wintergarten in Berlin during the 1920's. In films from 1916, later screen roles mostly as soubrettes and ingénues. Left Germany in 1933 to escape the persecution of Jews. Moved to the U.S. via Prague and the Netherlands in 1939. Failed to establish herself in American films. Left acting after 1945 to manage a cotton and date palm plantation in the Californian desert near the Mexican border.

Berliner lived quietly in California until she died on February 26, 1977 in San Diego just two days shy of her 74th birthday.

Trude Berliner experienced the height of her career in the 30's although she had only few years in which she could appear in talkies before she had to flee abroad from the National Socialists because she was a Jewess.

In order to earn a living she worked among others in the pottery of the also emigrated actor Ernst Verebes and administrated a date farm.

Being Jewish, she left Germany when Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in 1933 and went to France. In 1939, she immigrated to the United States. However, in Hollywood Berliner was not able to continue her promising movie career, receiving only bit roles in four movies, and it would be three years before she received any part in any movie.