Katta Sterna

Katta Sterna (born Katharina Ida Stern; December 19, 1897 – July 29, 1984) was a German actress and dancer.

Biography Katharina Stern was the daughter of engineer Georg Joseph Stern and his wife Bertha Elisabeth (1870–1963), née Schmidt, the younger sister of Conrad Schmidt and Käthe Kollwitz, née Schmidt. Katharina's sisters were actress Johanna Therese (married to director Fritz Kortner), actress and choreographer Maria Matray, and stage actress Gregola Keller (known under stage name Regula Keller, 1897–1983).

During her adolescence, Katharina was considered distracted and very impulsive. Her parents therefore consulted Theodor Ziehen, head of the Psychiatric and Neurological Clinic at the Charité of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Berlin, who diagnosed her as incurable and recommended her placement in a sanatorium. Around 1917, Zehlendorf poet Otto Braun unilaterally fell in love her, but Rudolf Borchardt finally managed to dissuade Braun from this unpromising love affair during a heated conversation, because Sterna was in a relationship with .

Alongside her film career, Katta Sterna became an innovative dancer. In the 1920s, projects emerged in collaboration with Ernst Mátray and her sister Maria Solveg, including The Green Flute, Before the Mirror, and Midsummer Night's Dream.

Filmography 1914: Lumpchens Glück 1914: Das Sportsmädel 1915: The Bartered Bride 1915: Marionettes 1915: Teufelchen 1918: Ticky-Tacky 1919: A Brilliant Case 1919: The Engagement Telescope 1920: Flimmerherzen 1920: O du Quetschfalte meines Herzens 1921: Comrades 1921: When I Was a Corpse 1929: Sailor's Dance. Maria Solveg and Katta Sterna of the Matray Ballet 1930: Tingel-Tangel

Literature Paul Nikolaus, Ernst E. Stern: Dancers. Delphin-Verlag, Munich 1919, p. 43. John Schikowski: History of Dance. Büchergilde Gutenberg, Berlin 1926, p. 159. Victor Junk: Handbook of Dance. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1930, p. 225. Burcu Dogramaci: Drei Schwestern. The Actresses Maria Solveg, Katta Sterna, and Johanna Hofer between the Empire and Emigration. In: Exile, No. 1 (2003), pp. 62–77. (Part 1); Exile, No. 2 (2003), 2, pp. 5–19. (Part 2)