Valérie von Martens born Valérie Pajér Edle von Mayersperg, was a German-Austrian actress.

Valérie von Martens was born in Lienz

Lienz

Lienz is a medieval town in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is the administrative centre of the Lienz district, which covers all of East Tyrol. The municipality also includes the cadastral subdivision of Patriasdorf.-Geography:...

, Tirol

Tyrol (state)

Tyrol is a state or Bundesland, located in the west of Austria. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical region of Tyrol.The state is split into two parts–called North Tyrol and East Tyrol–by a -wide strip of land where the state of Salzburg borders directly on the Italian province of...

, daughter of the Austrian admiral Rudolf Pajér Edler von Mayersperg. She was an actress in Vienna when she had a relationship with the cabaret artist Karl Farkas

Karl Farkas

Karl Farkas was an Austrian actor and cabaret performer.In accordance with the wishes of his parents, he was to study law, but decided to follow the call of the stage...

. In 1922 she met the actor Curt Goetz

Curt Goetz

Curt Goetz , born Kurt Walter Götz, was a Swiss-German writer, actor and film director. Curt Goetz was regarded as one of the most brilliant comedy writers of his time in the German-speaking world. Together with his wife Valérie von Martens he acted in his own plays and also filmed them...

. They married on 20 December, 1923 in Berlin. She then appeared with him on stage and screen, mainly in pieces written or directed by him.

She died in Riehen

Riehen

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, Switzerland), and is buried in the Heerstrasse cemetery

Friedhof Heerstraße

The Friedhof Heerstraße cemetery is located at Trakehnerallee 1 , district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in Berlin, Germany, beneath the Olympiastadion. It covers an area of 149,650 square meters....

 in Berlin, alongside her husband.

Works

• Die Verwandlung des Peterhans von Binningen ('Memoirs Vol. 2, 1962)
• Wir wandern, wir wandern... (Memoirs, Vol. 3, 1963)
• Die wunderbare und spannende Geschichte des Herrn Blau (1965)
• Das große Curt-Goetz-Album – Bilder eines Lebens (1968)
• Curt's Geschichten, Kurzgeschichten von und über Curt Goetz (1972)
• Curt Goetz – In deinem Sinne (1982)

Films (a selection)

• Im Banne der Kralle (1921)
• Napoleon ist an allem schuld (1938)
• Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius (1950)
• Das Haus in Montevideo (1951)
• Hokuspokus (1953)

External links

• Valerie von Martens at the filmportal.de
• www.curtgoetz.de Curt Goetz and Valerie von Martens
• www.curt-goetz.at
• Biography of Curt Goetz and Fils