Pianist. Leading soloist with orchestras in Hamburg, Muchen, Brussels, US and Canada.
Received the national prize offered by the Emperor of Austria in 1904; was decorated by Queen Elizabeth of Romania
Germaine Schnitzer married Leo Buerger, a pathologist, in 1913. She sued him for divorce in 1927. She had a son, Gerald Henri Buerger (later known as Gerry Kean, an actor, playwright, and director), and a daughter, Yvonne Sarah Buerger Jones (1920-1942). Yvonne's godmother was Schnitzer's friend, actress Sarah Bernhardt. Yvonne's husband at the time of her death was actor Henry Burk Jones. Germaine Schnitzer died in 1982, aged 94 years, in New York. Her gravesite is with her daughter's, in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Theatre administrator Robert C. Schnitzer (1906-2008), also based in Connecticut, was her nephew, the son of her brother Louis Schnitzer.
In 1931, Schnitzer's career ended when she was badly injured in a traffic accident in New York, and remained partially paralyzed. She won a judgment of $150,000 after suing the taxi company in 1934, though it is unlikely she was ever paid. In 1944 she admitted her part in a conspiracy to violate the Export Control Act, to help her brother Georges Schnitzer, a banker in Belgium, access his frozen accounts during World War II. She pleaded guilty, testified for the government, and was eventually fined $5000. Her donation to the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund in 1979 was noted by the paper, because of her advanced age.
Received the national prize offered by the Emperor of Austria in 1904; was decorated by Queen Elizabeth of Romania
Germaine Schnitzer married Leo Buerger, a pathologist, in 1913. She sued him for divorce in 1927. She had a son, Gerald Henri Buerger (later known as Gerry Kean, an actor, playwright, and director), and a daughter, Yvonne Sarah Buerger Jones (1920-1942). Yvonne's godmother was Schnitzer's friend, actress Sarah Bernhardt. Yvonne's husband at the time of her death was actor Henry Burk Jones. Germaine Schnitzer died in 1982, aged 94 years, in New York. Her gravesite is with her daughter's, in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Theatre administrator Robert C. Schnitzer (1906-2008), also based in Connecticut, was her nephew, the son of her brother Louis Schnitzer.
In 1931, Schnitzer's career ended when she was badly injured in a traffic accident in New York, and remained partially paralyzed. She won a judgment of $150,000 after suing the taxi company in 1934, though it is unlikely she was ever paid. In 1944 she admitted her part in a conspiracy to violate the Export Control Act, to help her brother Georges Schnitzer, a banker in Belgium, access his frozen accounts during World War II. She pleaded guilty, testified for the government, and was eventually fined $5000. Her donation to the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund in 1979 was noted by the paper, because of her advanced age.
Pianist. Leading soloist with orchestras in Hamburg, Muchen, Brussels, US and Canada.
Received the national prize offered by the Emperor of Austria in 1904; was decorated by Queen Elizabeth of Romania
Germaine Schnitzer married Leo Buerger, a pathologist, in 1913. She sued him for divorce in 1927. She had a son, Gerald Henri Buerger (later known as Gerry Kean, an actor, playwright, and director), and a daughter, Yvonne Sarah Buerger Jones (1920-1942). Yvonne's godmother was Schnitzer's friend, actress Sarah Bernhardt. Yvonne's husband at the time of her death was actor Henry Burk Jones. Germaine Schnitzer died in 1982, aged 94 years, in New York. Her gravesite is with her daughter's, in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Theatre administrator Robert C. Schnitzer (1906-2008), also based in Connecticut, was her nephew, the son of her brother Louis Schnitzer.
In 1931, Schnitzer's career ended when she was badly injured in a traffic accident in New York, and remained partially paralyzed. She won a judgment of $150,000 after suing the taxi company in 1934, though it is unlikely she was ever paid. In 1944 she admitted her part in a conspiracy to violate the Export Control Act, to help her brother Georges Schnitzer, a banker in Belgium, access his frozen accounts during World War II. She pleaded guilty, testified for the government, and was eventually fined $5000. Her donation to the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund in 1979 was noted by the paper, because of her advanced age.
Received the national prize offered by the Emperor of Austria in 1904; was decorated by Queen Elizabeth of Romania
Germaine Schnitzer married Leo Buerger, a pathologist, in 1913. She sued him for divorce in 1927. She had a son, Gerald Henri Buerger (later known as Gerry Kean, an actor, playwright, and director), and a daughter, Yvonne Sarah Buerger Jones (1920-1942). Yvonne's godmother was Schnitzer's friend, actress Sarah Bernhardt. Yvonne's husband at the time of her death was actor Henry Burk Jones. Germaine Schnitzer died in 1982, aged 94 years, in New York. Her gravesite is with her daughter's, in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Theatre administrator Robert C. Schnitzer (1906-2008), also based in Connecticut, was her nephew, the son of her brother Louis Schnitzer.
In 1931, Schnitzer's career ended when she was badly injured in a traffic accident in New York, and remained partially paralyzed. She won a judgment of $150,000 after suing the taxi company in 1934, though it is unlikely she was ever paid. In 1944 she admitted her part in a conspiracy to violate the Export Control Act, to help her brother Georges Schnitzer, a banker in Belgium, access his frozen accounts during World War II. She pleaded guilty, testified for the government, and was eventually fined $5000. Her donation to the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund in 1979 was noted by the paper, because of her advanced age.
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buried next to her daughter Yvonne Jones, no marker exists for her
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