Gerd Høst

Actress in Norway and Germany in the years from 1934 to 1943, later a professor in German philology, and also a gifted writer of several books. She began the stage career as Celia in "As You Like It" at The Norwegian Theatre in Oslo, later she played at The National Stage in Bergen, and at The Central Theatre in Oslo. In Germany she appeared in some films before the war, including "Sergeant Berry", where she played opposite the very popular German actor Hans Albers. From 1938 she was engaged at the famous Deutsches Theater in Berlin, and in that period she developed a long and strong friendship with the German actress Brigitte Horney, about whom she wrote a biography in 1992: "So oder so ist das leben". After returning home to Norway she worked at The Central Theatre in Oslo, and she also toured around in Scandinavia, reciting Norwegian poems.After the war she occasionally read poems in public, but most of the time she was concentrating on an imposing academic education and later a great career in philological studies.For her work she received the Norwegian order of St.Olav, and the German Bundesverdienstkreuz.