- Considered the prototype of an "Aryan woman" during the Nazi regime. As two of the characters she played on her husband Veit Harlan's melodramatic movies committed suicide by drowning, the audience gave her the nickname "Reichswasserleiche" (literally for "most prominent water corpse in the Reich").
- Daughter of Henrik Gustaf Söderbaum (1862-1933), Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1923-1933.
- Her last film was with Hugh Grant in the thriller Night Train to Venice in 1994.
- Director and husband Harlan and Söderbaum made ten films together under Joseph Goebbels.
- The actress Kristina Söderbaum experienced a very successful film career in Germany but her participation in some propaganda movies, among them "Jud Süss" directed by her husband Veit Harlan, led to a speedy end of her career after the war.
- In the first few years after the war, Söderbaum was often heckled off the stage and even had rotten vegetables thrown at her. In subsequent years, she frequently expressed regret for her roles in anti-Semitic films.
- According to Antje Ascheid, Söderbaum is frequently identified as "most singularly representative of the Nazi ideal, as the quintessential Nazi star".
- Published her autobiography "Nichts bleibt immer so" (Nothing remains the way it is) in 1983.
- She died in 2001 in a nursing home in Hitzacker, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- In 1983 she published her memoirs under the title Nichts bleibt immer so ("Nothing Stays That Way Forever").
- Beginning in 1935, Söderbaum starred in a number of films with her husband, director Veit Harlan, whom she married in 1939.
- As a beautiful Swedish blonde, Söderbaum had the baby-doll looks that epitomized the model Aryan woman. In fact, she had already played the role of the innocent Aryan in a number of feature films and was well-known to German audiences.
- After both her parents had died shortly after each other, she moved to Berlin and enrolled in a theatre school.
- In 1974 she took a role in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's film Karl May.
- After her husband was again permitted to direct films, Söderbaum played leading roles in a number of his films. These included Blue Hour (1952), The Prisoner of the Maharaja (1953), Betrayal of Germany (1954), and I Will Carry You on My Hands (1958). Their last joint project was a 1963 theater production of August Strindberg's A Dream Play in Aachen.
- After Harlan's death - her husband -in 1964, Söderbaum became a noted fashion photographer.
- In her later years, Söderbaum faded into obscurity but still took roles in three movies and the television series The Bergdoktor.
- In a number of her films, she had been imperiled by the threat of "rassenschande" ("racial pollution").Two such roles were Dorothea Sturm, the doomed heroine of the antisemitic historical melodrama Jud Süß, who commits suicide by drowning after being raped by the villain and Anna in Die goldene Stadt, a Sudeten German whose desire for the city (in defiance of blood and soil) and whose seduction by a Czech result in her drowning suicide. As a result of her watery fate in these two films, as well as a similar end in her debut in Harlan's 1938 film Jugend, she was given the mock honorary title Reichswasserleiche ("Drowned Corpse of the Reich").
- Her youth and beauty made her a symbol of health and purity and thus an exemplary specimen of the Nazi ideal of womanhood.
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