Else Elster
Else Elster (born February 22, 1910 in Danzig ; † March 28, 1998 in Günzburg ) was a German actress .
Life
Else Elster attended the Musikhochschule in Vienna and took acting lessons from Ilka Grüning in Berlin . Before completing her education, she got the lead role in the film The Blonde Nightingale in 1930 .
By the time she made her theatrical debut in 1932, she was already a busy film actress. She played dashing girls to fall in love with in numerous entertainment films, sometimes with vocal interludes. Like numerous other young actresses in the Third Reich, she was one of the group of celebrities with whom Adolf Hitler liked to show himself.
She was one of the first TV announcers for the Paul Nipkow TV station .
During the Second World War she entered into a relationship with the Berlin police chief Wolf Heinrich Graf von Helldorf , who had joined the Stauffenberg group. The family's personal files reveal that Elster marked the day of her lover's execution with a cross in her diary. The farewell letter from Count Helldorf is still in the family's possession and can be seen as a copy in the House of Resistance in Berlin.
Weeks before the execution, she had to appear again and again for nightly Gestapo interrogations. In fact, she knew nothing about Count Helldorf's plans for resistance. Elster was pregnant by Helldorf and later named their daughter Christa.
After the war Else Elster's filmmaking was practically terminated because they brought the young woman to very-Nazi regime with the connected because at this time the majority of her films were created and one their close contact with the Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels rumored to . She only appeared in front of the camera once for the film Nothing but Coincidences . Despite this, she continued to work as a stage actress, cabaret artist and singer, but could no longer build on her former successes.
Later she met the gynecologist Dr. Know Erhard Schlaegel and moved with him to his villa in Günzburg. Her husband already brought two children into the marriage. Else Schlaegel gave birth to a son on September 5, 1950, who was christened Wolf Wilhelm Schlaegel. Together with her husband, she worked in his gynecological clinic for the next few years. In 1996 Erhard Schlaegel died shortly after the birth of his grandchild. Else Schlaegel lived in an apartment in Günzburg for two years before she herself died of old age. Both spouses are buried in the family grave of the Schlaegel family in the Günzburg cemetery.
Her son Wolf Wilhelm Schlaegel also became a specialist in rehabilitation and now lives with his family in his parents' house in Günzburg. He gave the museum "House of Resistance" in Berlin access to his mother's personal files.
Filmography
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Web links
- Else Elster in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Else Elster at filmportal.de
- Else Elster at www.cyranos.ch
- Pictures by Else Elster In: Virtual History
Individual evidence
Worked for the television station Paul Nipkow [1]
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| SURNAME | Magpie, Else |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1998 |
| Place of death | Gunzburg |