Carola Neher

Biography

Carola Neher was a trailblazing German actress and singer who defied traditional gender categories as part of the "New Woman" movement in Berlin's 1920s avant-garde scene. Her notable role as Polly Peachum in Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" cemented her artistic success, while her marriage to poet Klabund also marked a significant turning point in her life. Neher's activism during the Great Purge led to her tragic arrest and imprisonment, ultimately resulting in her death from typhus in 1942.