Johanna Hofer, born Johanna Stern (1896-1988), was an esteemed German actress whose career spanned Berlin Expressionism, Hollywood exile, and the rebirth of post-war German theater. Trained under Max Reinhardt, she became a prominent performer on German stages before the rise of Nazism forced her, as she was Jewish, to emigrate in 1933. She spent her exile years first in Great Britain and then in the United States, alongside her husband, the influential actor and director Fritz Kortner. During her time in Hollywood, she played character roles, often uncredited, embodying figures of refugees or European women. Returning to West Germany after the war, she resumed a highly successful career, especially in theater. In film, her most celebrated post-war performance is in Maximilian Schell's The Pedestrian (1973), for which she won a German Film Award for Best Actress.