Karen Bergemann is the ex-wife of Roger Arthur Graef who was born on April 18, 1936 and died on March 2, 2022, was an American-born British documentary filmmaker and theatre director. Born in New York City, he moved to Britain in 1962, where he began a career producing documentary films investigating previously closed institutions, including Government ministries and court buildings.
Graef was born in New York City and started directing plays at Harvard University, staging the New England premiere of Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein’s opera The Mother of Us All in 1956, and the premiere of Robert Penn Warren’s Brother to Dragons in 1957.
He directed 24 plays in theatres along the East Coast and was chosen by CBS for its new TV drama directors’ program. He directed two network dramas for CBS, including The Seven who were Hanged, a one-hour special adapted and produced by Robert Herridge from the Leonid Andreyev novel of the same name.
Hee married his first wife Karen Bergemann in 1971 and divorced in 1983. Not much is known about Karen Bergemann.