Maria Fein

In 1964 Fein told of her experiences in Berlin theaters prior to 1933 in a twelve episode documentary presented by the German network Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

By 1961 Fein had returned to Switzerland where at Basil she played the title role in Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.

In America Fein played Caroline of Brunswick to the Prince Regent of Walter Slezak in Norman Ginsbury's, The First Gentleman, but had left over creative differences by the time the show made its Broadway debut on 25 April 1957. The following year she was engaged to play Miriam in Christopher Fry's, The First Born, though was replaced by Mildred Natwick a month before its April 30 debut on Broadway. Fein remained in United States for several years giving one-woman shows called An Evening of European Theatre. in which she performed scenes taken from plays by noted European playwrights.

In 1951 Fein returned to Berlin to perform for the first time since the Nazi era. At the Schloss Charlottenburg she played Weisheit in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das Salzburger große Welttheater.

Over the early 1950s Fein toured England, France and Switzerland giving recitations and lectures and later appeared on BBC Radio in performances that included a 1956 radio play presenting an English language adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder.[.

Maria Fein's last work in front of the camera was the movie "Friederike" (1932).

Fein's marriage to Becker ended in divorce in the mid-1930s after a long separation.[.

She was an actress, known for Die Kaukasierin (1917), Die Erlösung des Reimundus (1918) and Das Leben ein Traum (1916). She was married to Theodor Becker.

Between 1916 and 1932 Fein appeared in at least twenty-three German films working with pioneer movie directors Robert Wiene, Uwe Jens Krafft, Hanna Henning, Rochus Gliese, Walter Schmidthässle, Frederic Zelnik, Albert Lastmann, Paul Leni, Rudolf Walther-Fein, Michael Curtiz, Rudolf Meinert and Fritz Friedmann-Frederich.

Maria Fein was born on April 7, 1892 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.