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name: "Elsa Bassermann"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elsa-bassermann"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 January 1878"
died: "30 May 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T01:05:29.414113+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Elsa Bassermann

Actor. Born 14 January 1878 in Leipzig, Saxony, German Empire [now Germany]. Died 30 May 1961.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 January 1878, Leipzig, Saxony, German Empire [now Germany]
- **Died:** 30 May 1961
- **Also known as:** Else Bassermann, Hans Hennings
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Bassermann, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109211, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0060167/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1206229

## Biography

Elsa Bassermann (born Elsa Sarah Schiff) was a German actress and screenwriter. She began her stage career around 1902 at theatres in Breslau, Cologne and Berlin, and appeared in films from 1913, frequently with her husband Albert Bassermann. She wrote numerous screenplays under the pseudonym Hans Hennings.

Owing to her Jewish background, the couple left Nazi Germany in the 1930s and emigrated to the United States in 1939. There she took supporting roles in films including *Escape* (1940), *Desperate Journey* (1942) and *Madame Curie* (1943), in which she played Madame Perot. She later returned to Germany and died in Baden-Baden in 1961.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Madame Curie* (1943), Fi1m 72, as Madame Perot — [page](https://film.one/film/madame-curie.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Madame Curie* (1943), as Madame Perot — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/madame-curie.md)
- *Desperate Journey* (1942), as Frau Raeder
- *I Was a Criminal* (1941), as Mrs. Marie Hoprecht
- *Escape* (1940), as Mrs. Henning
- *Last Love* (1935), as Hanna von Hooven
- *A Woman Branded* (1931), as Frau Thorn, Ilses Mutter
- *Lucrezia Borgia* (1922), as Bit
- *Die Söhne des Grafen Dossy* (1920), Writer
- *Die Stimme* (1920), Writer
- *Dolls of Death* (1920), as Konstanze
- *Die Duplizität der Ereignisse* (1920), Writer
- *Der letzte Zeuge* (1919), Writer
- *Lorenzo Burghardt* (1918), Screenplay
- *Dr. Schotte* (1918), as Johanna · Screenplay
- *Die Brüder von Zaarden* (1918), Writer
- *Vater und Sohn* (1918), Writer
- *Der eiserne Wille* (1917), Screenplay
- *Du sollst keine anderen Götter haben* (1917), Screenplay
- *Herr und Diener* (1917), Screenplay
- *Urteil des Arztes* (1914), Actor
- *Der letzte Tag* (1913), Actor
- *Der Mutter Augen* (1913), as Kind

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