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1. Curt Goetz

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Curt Goetz

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Curt Goetz (real name Kurt Walter Götz, 17 November 1888 - 12 September 1960) was a Swiss-German writer, actor and film director. Curt Goetz was regarded as one of the most brilliant comedy writers of his time in the German-speaking world. Together with his wife Valérie von Martens he acted in his own plays and also filmed them. He was a distant relative of the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, with whom he was often compared. Kurt Walter Götz was born in Mainz, Germany as the son of the Swiss wine examiner Bernhard Götz, and his German wife of Italian and French descent, Selma (born Rocco). His father died in 1890. His mother then went with the two-year-old Curt to Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, where she managed a private clinic.

Valerie von Martens

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Valérie von Martens (real name Valérie Pajér Edle von Mayersperg, 4 November 1894 - 7 April 1986) was a German-Austrian actress. Valérie von Martens was born in Lienz, Tirol, daughter of the Austrian admiral Rudolf Pajér Edler von Mayersperg. She was an actress in Vienna when she had a relationship with the cabaret artist Karl Farkas. In 1922 she met the actor Curt Goetz. They married on 20 December, 1923 in Berlin. She then appeared with him on stage and screen, mainly in pieces written or directed by him. She died in Riehen, Switzerland), and is buried in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin, alongside her husband.

1. Christina Günther

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