Elfie Fiegert

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Elfie Fiegert (* 1946 , actually Elfriede Fiegert), also announced in the opening credits as Toxi , Toxy , Toxi Fiegert or Toxi Nwako , is a German former film actress.

life and career

Elfie Fiegert is a so-called occupation child , one of the brown babies of the post-war period, who were exposed to particular social pressure due to their external identifiability and the aftermath of the Nazi racial ideology. Her father - a black GI and student - was, as usual in such cases, "unexpectedly" posted to Korea . Her mother, a doctor from Freising who later emigrated to the USA, placed the child in the care of a children's home. Eventually it was adopted by the Fiegert couple, who originally came from Silesia.

As a five-year-old, Fiegert, who grew up in Bavaria, was portrayed by the graphic designer Heinz Fehling as the face for the Sinalco advertising. Fehling changed the appearance of Fiegert on the advertising poster in some details. So she has blue instead of brown eyes and her skin appears much lighter than in reality. Fiegert's first and most successful film Toxi , directed by Robert A. Stemmle, addressed the topic of "mixed race children" and the prejudices against them. The happy ending of the melodrama is that the biological father of the " foundling " brings his daughter to the United States on Christmas Eve. In 1955 she was given a leading role again in The Dark Star . Fiegert embodied a young mixed-race child who is teased at school because of his skin color and who finds happiness in the world of the circus. However, the child star was not granted a great career . In the following years she only got smaller supporting roles in inconsequential comedies such as Zwei Bayern im Harem (1957) or Our great aunts (1961). In 1963 she engaged Helmut Käutner for his Curt Goetz remake Das Haus in Montevideo . Hoping to make a career in film, Fiegert quit her job with an insurance company and took acting, singing and dancing lessons. The hoped for success did not materialize, however. After her work in the artist series Salto mortale (1971), her acting career came to an end.

At the age of 18 she married the Nigerian Christopher Nwako, from whom she divorced shortly afterwards. The marriage resulted in a son who stayed with his father in Nigeria after the separation. Then Fiegert worked as a secretary and solo entertainer; later she worked as a travel companion on Mallorca , where she settled in 1977. After that, it largely disappeared from the public eye.

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FILM / RA STEMMLE - The people stir. In: Der Spiegel 30/1952 of July 23, 1952
  2. ↑ Children's star of the 50s on diesinalcoschmeckt.blogspot.com from November 2, 2016; accessed on August 6, 2018
  3. ↑ The man who understood women on weser-kurier.de of October 11, 2012; accessed on August 6, 2018
  4. ↑ Annette Brauerhoch: "Toxi". On the cinematic representation of black children in post-war Germany. In: Children of the occupation: The descendants of allied soldiers in Austria and Germany. Vienna 2015, page 345.
  5. ↑ Annette Brauerhoch: "Toxi". On the cinematic representation of black children in post-war Germany. In: Children of the occupation: The descendants of allied soldiers in Austria and Germany. Vienna 2015, page 345.
  6. ↑ Annette Brauerhoch: "Toxi", page 345
personal data
SURNAME Fiegert, Elfie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fiegert, Elfi; Nwako, Elfriede; Fiegert, Elfriede (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1946