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María Elena Gertner (1926[lower-alpha 1] – 25 January 2013) was a Chilean actress, author, and television screenwriter.[2][3]

María Elena Gertner
Born	1926 (1926) Iquique, Chile
Died	25 January 2013(2013-01-25) (aged 80–81) Isla Negra, Chile
Resting place	Catholic Cemetery of Santiago [es]
Occupation	Writer, actress
Awards	CRAV Award (1964) Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit (2005)

Biography

María Elena Gertner began her literary career with the 1950 poetry collection Homenaje al miedo.[3] In this way, she was classified within the "generation of 1950" – also called the "generation of 1957"[4] – of which her novel Islas en la ciudad es is considered one of the six key works.[5][lower-alpha 2] Among her early creations, the theatrical works La mujer que trajo la lluvia and La rosa perdida stood out. In 1964, she won the CRAV Award with her story "El invencible sueño del coronel".[1][4]

She began acting in 1952, when she was a member of the Experimental Theater of the University of Chile [es].[1] Later, she participated in the Art Theater of the Ministry of Education and in chamber theaters, exhibiting her previously mentioned theatrical stories as an actress and stage director.[1] She also starred in the 1971 film Voto más fusil [es] by Helvio Soto.[6]

Gertner wrote several telenovelas for Televisión Nacional de Chile. One of the most controversial was La dama del balcón [es] (1986), which included several Nazi characters and referred to the Third Reich, as well as genetic experiments. Because of this, the telenovela suffered censorship by the Social Communication Division [es] (DINACOS), a body established during the military regime.[7]

In 2005, Gertner received the Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit.[8]

Work

Regarding the novel Islas en la ciudad, the poet Marietta Morales Rodríguez described it in the following way in the magazine Cinosargo: "The main character is the city. A Santiago that turns people into islands and represents the isolation of conflicts."[4]

Publications

Year	Title	Notes	Ref
1950	Homenaje al miedo	Poems	[9]
1954	Niñita		[9]
1958	Islas en la ciudad		[9]
1959	Un juego de salón		[9]
1963	Páramo salvaje		[9]
1963	El invencible sueño del coronel		[9]
1965	Después del desierto		[9]
1965	La derrota		[9]
1967	La mujer de sal		[9]

Telenovelas

Year	Title	Role	Ref
1975	J. J. Juez [es]	Performer
1981	La Madrastra	Performer	[3]
1982	De cara al mañana [es]	Screenwriter	[3]
1983	El juego de la vida [es]	Screenwriter	[10]
1985	Morir de amor [es]	Screenwriter	[3]
1986	La dama del balcón	Screenwriter	[7]
1987	Mi nombre es Lara [es]	Performer
1988	Bellas y audaces [es]	Performer
1988	Las dos caras del amor [es]	Performer	[3]
1990	El milagro de vivir [es]	Screenwriter	[11]

Films

Year	Title	Type	Role	Ref
1949	La cadena infinita	Feature	Performer	[12]
1954	Confesión al amanecer	Feature	Screenwriter	[12]
1971	Voto más fusil [es]	Feature	Performer	[12]
1975	La pérgola de las flores	TV film	Performer

Theater

Year	Title	Ref
1951	La mujer que trajo la lluvia	[4]
1952	La rosa perdida	[4]

Notes

References

External links

• María Elena Gertner at IMDb 

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