- Carola Neher was also a joint signatory of an appeal against Adolf Hitler in 1933.
- The Carola-Neher-Street in Berlin Hellersdorf is named after Neher.
- She emigrated to Prague, where she worked at the New German Theater, but went on to the Soviet Union in 1934, where she met Gustav von Wangenheim and worked with him at his German language cabaret Kolonne Links. In 1936, throughout the Great Purge, Wangenheim denounced Neher and her husband, Anatol Becker, as Trotskyites, she was arrested on July 25, 1936. Becker was executed in 1937; Neher was sentenced to ten years in prison and sent to a gulag near Orenburg.
- Neher practiced boxing with Turkish trainer and prizefighter Sabri Mahir at his studio, which opened to women (including Vicki Baum and Marlene Dietrich) in the 1920s. Posing for a photograph opposite Mahir and equipped with boxing gloves and a maillot, she asserted herself as a "New Woman", challenging traditional gender categories.
- She and her second husband went to the Soviet Union where she again was able to continue her artistic career.
- Her fate caused protests among other emigrants outside the Soviet Union, especially as Bertolt Brecht did not aid Neher.
- She managed her breakthrough in Breslau were she appeared at the Lobe-Theater for several years. There she also met the writer Alfred "Klabund" Henschke and they got married in 1925.
- After the premature death of her husband Alfred Henschke she got married to Anatol Becker. They shared the same political view and supported the communism.
- The actress Carola Neher began her cinematical career as a bank clerk before she fulfilled her dream to become an actress.
- The film business remained an irrelevant fact in the career of Carola Neher. She went to Berlin in 1926 where she was able to go on from her former successes and she appeared among others in Bert Brecht's "Die Dreigroschenoper" (1929) of Bert Brecht. Brecht wrote other roles for her in his plays "Happy End" and "Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe". Other popular stage plays followed with "Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald" and "Ich tanze um die Welt mit dir".
- She got her first stage engagements at the theater Baden-Baden in 1920 and in the next years followed other theater engagements in cities like Nuremberg and Munich.
- During the chivy by Josef Stalin - the so-called "Great terror" - Carola Neher and her husband Anatol Becker were arrested in 1936. In the ensuing year her husband was executed as a Trotzki symphatizer and Carole Neher was sentenced to ten years in a labor camp. It followed a hard time in a Russian gulag, finally she was interned in Oryol. When the German army occupied the camp Carola Neher was brought to Ilelz near Orienburg where they put her in prison.
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