1. Carola Neher worked as a bank clerk at the Munich branch of the Deutsche Bank from 11 June 1917 to 15 October 1919.
10 Facts About Carola Neher
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In 1924, Neher started to work at the Lobe-Theater Breslau.
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In 1926, Carola Neher went to Berlin to work with Bertolt Brecht.
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Carola Neher wrote the role of Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera for her, but late in rehearsals her husband died at Davos on 14 August 1928.
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Carola Neher was therefore unable to appear at the premiere, but acted the role of Polly in the later performances.
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Carola Neher first emigrated to Prague, where she worked at the New German Theater, but went on to the Soviet Union in 1934, where she met Gustav von Wangenheim and worked with him at his cabaret Kolonne Links.
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Becker was executed in 1937, while Carola Neher was sentenced to ten years in prison and sent to the prison for political convicts in Oryol.
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Carola Neher is mentioned in the memoirs both of Yevgenia Ginzburg and Margarete Buber-Neumann.
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Carola Neher was sent to Moscow on her transit to Germany where the two met in Butyrka prison.
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Carola Neher was buried in an unmarked mass grave.