- After the movie 'Mädchen in Uniform' (1931)she was reunited again with Dorothea Wieck in another lesbian-themed film, Anna und Elisabeth (1933), which was banned by the Nazis soon after it opened and which she later said was the most important work of her career.
- Towards the end of her life, western feminists researching the history of Mädchen in Uniform sought her out and she enjoyed a small measure of renewed cult celebrity before she died in 1984.
- In 1931 she was given the lead role in the film adaptation of a play she had done there, Gestern und heute but now called Mädchen in Uniform, a tale set in a Prussian boarding school for girls. The film had an all-female cast and Thiele played Manuela, a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl deeply infatuated with her teacher, Fräulein von Bernburg who was played by Dorothea Wieck. Mädchen in Uniform was distributed internationally and briefly made Thiele a star. She received thousands of fan letters, mostly from women.
- One of her early drama teachers told Thiele, "Either you'll have a great stage career or nothing at all. You have a Botticelli face but one which suggests depravity".
- Her favorite movie was Anna and Elizabeth (1933).
- Although returning to Germany in 1949, where she didn't succeed in staring a theater career, she later lived again in Switzerland and Paris, working as a psychiatric nursing assistant. In 1966, she finally returned to East Germany.
- After refusing to appear in Nazi propaganda movies, she was prohibited to work as an actress in Germany and emigrated to Switzerland (1937).
- Hertha Thiele returned to East Germany after the war but was unsuccessful in her efforts to begin a theatre. She returned to Switzerland and worked as a psychiatric nursing assistant during most of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966 Thiele again returned to the GDR, working in stage productions in Magdeburg and Leipzig.
- She is noted for her starring roles in then controversial stage plays and films produced during Germany's Weimar Republic and the early years of the Third Reich.
- In 1998 German film historians Heide Schlüpmann and Karola Gramman noted "her acting success may well have been based upon her image which met the homo-erotic desires of both men and women, though perhaps more those of women", and that Hertha Thiele "told us she would have liked to have played a 'proper love scene' with a man, once in her life: her image, moulded by men, didn't allow her the expression of this desire".
- When she refused to act in the propaganda movie "Hans Westmar" in 1933 this meant the end of her career in the National Socialist Germany. She was excluded from the Reichstheater and Reichsfilmkammer in 1936, one year later she went to Switzerland where she carried on "middle-class" works for the time being. Only from 1942 she got a contract at the Stadttheater Bern and was able to appear on stage again.
- The effort to build up a theater in the GDR failed and she returned to Switzerland again. But even there she only got seldom role offers. She earned her living as an assistant nurse in a psychiatry.
- Her father worked as a locksmith.
- In 1975 Thiele's work was featured in a television documentary, Das Herz auf der linken Seite and in 1983 a monograph on her life and work was published by Deutsche Kinemathek.
- She continued to work in theatre during the early 1930s, including productions with Max Reinhardt (Harmonie, 1932) and Veit Harlan (Veronika, 1935).
- The actress Hertha Thiele began her theater career in 1928 where she had her breakthrough two years later with the play "Krankheit der Jugend". The success of this play led a film adaption and to Hertha Thiele's film debut. The movie was called "Mädchen in Uniform" (1931). The movie was a box-office hit and lived from the female artists.
- Hertha Thiele went to GDR again in 1966 and was able to assert as an actress again. She played at theaters and appeared in many TV productions.
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