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- Birth nameRosa Alice Vallentin
- Rosa Valetti was born Rosa Alice Vallentin, the daughter of industrialist Felix Vallentin and his wife, Bertha. Her brother was actor Hermann Vallentin, who emigrated to Mandatory Palestine. She first appeared on the Berlin stage and later also in Paris, Brussells and Vienna. During the First World War, she worked with Ludwig Roth, her first husband, at the Residenz-Theater in Berlin. She also worked as a director and acted in many theaters. A meeting with Kurt Tucholsky gave her an opportunity to work in cabaret, firstly in "Schall und Rauch." Valetti produced her own cabaret show "Café Grössenwahn" in 1920, then "Die Rampe" in 1922, and "Comedia Valetti" in 1923.
Valetti played in many cabarets around Europe and appeared in the premiere of "Die Dreigroschenoper" ("The Three Penny Opera"). In all, she appeared in more than 40 films, including in 1930 's "Der Blaue Engel" (The Blue Angel) with Marlene Dietrich. In 1933, she left Nazi Germany for Vienna and worked until 1935 at the Theater at der Josefstadt, also making guest appearances in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1934, she moved back to Berlin and then in 1936 to Palestine. She died the following year in Vienna. Her only child, her daughter Elisabeth, an actress known as Lisl Valetti, emigrated to the USA.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Rudi Polt / rudipolt@aol.com
- SpousesKarl Singer(1907 - ?) (divorced)Edmund Hertz(1899 - 1906) (divorced)Ludwig Roth (1 child)
- She not only belonged to the popular support actresses of the German silent film but also belonged to the crème de la crème of German cabaret artists.
- In the sound film era of the 30s she impersonated again support roles in some important movies, first of all "Der blaue Engel" (1930) and "M" (1931).
- After 1934 she could no longer work in Germany because of her Jewish roots. She went to Austria and in 1936 to Palestine. She never appeared again in a movie.
- The inflation of 1919 to 1923 and the subsequent collapse of the German economy forced Valetti to close her cabaret Cafe Megalomania.
- She directed the cabaret Rakete for a time, then launched another cafe of her own, the Rampe, which hosted the works of revolutionist poet and singer Erich Weinert.
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