Isa Vermehren
Isa Vermehren
Genres: show tunes, cabaret, sea shanties, Schlager, shanties
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About Isa Vermehren
(1918-2009) Isa Vermehren was a German comedian, actress and later a nun. In the 1930s she was active as part of the political-literary cabaret Katakombe, written and produced by Werner Finck, in which she sang sailor songs, love ballads and sly satires and taunts against the Nazi regime with "Agathe", her trademark accordion. Vermehren rose as the "Talent of Berlin Cabaret" and appeared in numerous UFA-Stars films. In 1935 the Katakombe was closed on the orders of the Nazis. In 1938 Isa got accepted into the Catholic Church and became a nun, and during the Second World War she was called for military service and served at the front. In 1944 her brother Eric Vermehren defected to the United Kingdom as a diplomat, for which she and her family were arrested on the grounds of "guilt by association". Having survived the concentration camps Ravensbrück, Buchenwald and Dachau, she was released on May 1945. From 1946 to 1951 she studied Catholic theology, German, English, history and philosophy at the University of Bonn with the objective of joining a religious order. There, she actively promoted the 1949-1951 Student Cabaret "Wintergärtchen". On 15 September 1951, she entered the Sacred Heart Convent in Beuel-Pützchen the Congregation of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She became a teacher and in 1961 was appointed head of the St. Adelaide High School in Beuel-Pützchen, and from 1969 until retirement in 1983 she led the Sophie-Barat school in Hamburg. She was buried in the monastery cemetery of the Sacred Heart Convent in Bonn-Pützchen. Agathe is now in the museum Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
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