Dorothea Neff
Austrian actress (1903-1986) · Austria · On the map · Actors · Died at 83
Dorothea Neff was a Vienna stage actress during the 1930s. Neff helped hide her Jewish friend Lilli Wolff, after she received resettlement orders from the Nazis to leave Vienna. To confuse the Gestapo, Neff wrote a suicide note and signed it 'Lilli' and left it in her apartment.
Dorothea Neff is read about 20 times a day, in 8 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 17 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Die liebe FamilieSeries, Dorli1979Righteous Among the NationsAward1969Juno und der PfauFilm, Mrs. Tancred1968Die letzten Tage der MenschheitFilm1966Der GlückstopfFilm, Frau Schilke1965PanoptikumFilm, Fürstin Clementine1964
Das Haus der VergeltungFilm, Miss Malleson1962
Einen Jux will er sich machenFilm, Fräulein von Blumenblatt1960
Herr Puntila and His Servant MattiFilm, Pröpstin1958
Eva Only Kisses DirectorsFilm1954
Schicksal am LenkradFilm, Frau Fiedler1952
Adventures in ViennaFilm1951Das unmögliche MädchenFilm, Frau Dreyer1948
Das singende HausFilm, Frl. Streusand1903Born21 February 1903People around Dorothea
Close ties
- Hermann Erhardt Also in Gottes Engel sind überall (1948)
Romy Schneider Also in Sissi - Fateful Years of an Empress (1958)
Magda Schneider Also in Sissi - Fateful Years of an Empress (1958)
Alberto Cavalcanti Directed Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti (1960)
Ernst Marischka Directed Sissi - Fateful Years of an Empress (1958)- Rolf Thiele Directed Eva (1959)
Josef Meinrad Also in Sissi - Fateful Years of an Empress (1958)
Bert Fortell Also in Schicksal am Lenkrad and Panoptikum- Otto Schmöle Also in Gottes Engel sind überall (1948)
Filmography 22
23 credits on file
Television 1
Awards
About this person
Neff allowed Lilli to live with her for a short time and later Lilli moved in with Mati Driessen and Meta Schmidt. Driessen and Schmidt were honored in Yad Vashem in Israel as Righteous Among the Nations. She later moved from the stage to the cinema, acting up until her death in 1986.
In the same film or series as Dorothea
Reinhard GlemnitzAlso in Der Glückstopf (1966)
Evelyn KünnekeAlso in Das unmögliche Mädchen (1951)
Heinz EngelmannAlso in Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti (1960)
Antje WeisgerberAlso in Liebe im September (1962)Wolfgang GlückAlso in Wind von Südost (1985)
Rudolf WesselyAlso in Juno und der Pfau (1969)