Trivia

She was not only active on stage but also active beside it.

With the rise of the National Socialists she was no longer able to work.

She remained true to the theater till to the 30 before the political circumstances ended her career.

Because of her age she went to a rest home later but in 1942 they came for her and she was deported to the ghetto Theresienstadt. Less than three months later she died in Theresienstadt in November 1942.

Jenny Marba was married with the actor Albert Borée.

She began her career at the theater where she was engaged for many plays. To her places of activity belonged Munich, Amsterdam, Hamburg and especially Berlin.

Among others she belonged to the co-founders of the Woman Committee of the "Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Angehöriger".

She appeared all over Europe, with particular evidence of roles in plays by Henrik Ibsen, playing Rita Allmers in Klein Eyolf in Munich and Amsterdam in 1895, Juliane Tesmann in Hedda Gabler in Hamburg in 1913 and Mrs Bernick in Die Stützen der Gesellschaft in Berlin in 1919.

Jenny Marba was the sister of Hillel Hermann Abramsohn, who went down in literature as the family doctor of the resistance fighter Walter Caro.

As a theatre actress she was considered busy, as her colleagues Elsa Wagner and Ida Wüst confirmed after 1945.