Gisela Angelica Bermann Fischer (21 April 1929 – 19 June 2014) was a German actress and psychologist.
Life and career Fischer was born in Berlin in 1929, the daughter of Gottfried and Brigitte Bermann Fischer. Her parents ran the publishing house S. Fischer Verlag, founded by her maternal grandfather Samuel von Fischer. The Jewish Fischers fled from the Nazi German regime, and she grew up in a number of countries including Italy, Czechoslovakia and Japan before settling in Connecticut in 1940.Petropoulos p. 213 She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and after the war returned to what was now West Germany.
After various stage and TV appearances, she made her film debut in 1960's . Her best-known role internationally was as Dr. Koska, a spy who helps Paul Newman and Julie Andrews' protagonists escape East Berlin, in Alfred Hitchcock's Cold War thriller Torn Curtain (1966).Chapman p. 334 She was a regular fixture on West German teleplays.
After the 1980s, Fischer left acting to pursue a career as a child and family psychologist, relocating to Zurich with her family.
Personal life Fischer was married to Swiss actor Pinkas Braun, with whom she had a daughter.
She was involved in a years-long lawsuit over the Camille Pissarro painting "Le Quai Malaquais et l'Institut", which had been looted by from her family by the Nazis in 1938. She suit was decided in her favor in 2009.
Death Fischer died in Zurich on 19 June 2014, at the age of 85.
Filmography
Film Year Title Role Notes1960 Editorial Secretary 1961 Black Gravel Margot 1961 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney Joan 1966 Torn Curtain Dr. Koska 1970 Piggies Edith Dr. Barbara 1973 The Experts 1987 Ossegg oder Die Wahrheit über Hänsel und Gretel Dr. Kirber
Television Year Title Role Notes1956 Der Verräter Eva McKeon TV movie1957 Die Dreigroschenoper Lucy Brown Der verschwundene Graf Secretary 1958 Mein Sohn, der Herr Minister Mona Courtois 1959Land, das meine Sprache sprichtSuzette Alberti1960Instinkt ist allesJackie1961 Weihnachten auf dem Marktplatz Mercedes 1962Tevya und seine TöchterTzeitlBluthochzeitFrauEin netter AbendNora Phillips1963Kapitän KaragözFloraVerlorner SohnCassandra1965Plädoyer für einen RebellenSedaria1967Heinrich IV.Marchesa Matilda Spina Drei Jahre Polinka 1970Der KommissarMarionEpisode: "Der Papierblumenmörder"1971Die Stimme hinter dem VorhangBeispiel 3TV movieDie UnzufriedeneMarion1973GeorgeEpisode: "George the Moviestar"Ein Fall für MänndliFrau KollinEpisode: "Lange Finger"1974Telerop 2009 - Es ist noch was zu rettenFui NaEpisode: "Nichts als Sand"1976Miniseries1978Tagebuch des VerführersTanteTV movie1981DerrickJane RobbinsEpisode: "Eine ganz alte Geschichte"1982Irrgarten - Marco Ruschiz' Fahrt zu den WolkenFrau RuthTV movie1985–86Ein Heim für TiereFrau Gissel5 episodes
References
Bibliography Chapman, James. Hitchcock and the Spy Film. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Petropoulos, Jonathan. Goering's Man in Paris. Yale University Press, 2021. Pollack, Howard. Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World. OUP USA 2012.
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