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Ruth Landshoff
German actress, writer
Ruth Landshoff-Yorck (born Ruth Levy, 7 January 1904 – 19 January 1966) was a German-American actress and writer.
Life and career
She was born in 1904[1] in Berlin as Ruth Levy to engineer Edward Levy and opera singer Else Landshoff.
She came from a middle class Jewish family and grew up in Berlin. Her uncle was the publisher Samuel Fischer.[2]
During the Weimar Republic Berlin became the intellectual and artistic centre of Europe.
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Landshoff counted among her friends Ernst Toller, Bertolt Brecht, Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein.[3] One of her close friends in Berlin was Swiss writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach.[4] She enjoyed a privileged lifestyle in Berlin and frequented the many gay bars.
She would dress as a man and appeared in public as her alter ego René.[3]
Landshoff appeared in several avant-garde films before she trained as an actress. Landshoff appeared as Ruth in Friedrich W