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Hansi Burg (born February 12, 1898 in Vienna , † March 14, 1975 in Garatshausen ) was a German- Austrian actress who is remembered through her civil partnership with Hans Albers .

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Hansi Burg grew up in Berlin since 1910 and began her stage career in 1917 at the Lustspielhaus there under the direction of Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers . During an engagement at the Trianon Theater (season 1920/21), she met her colleague Hans Albers, who was also working at the Rotter brothers' venue at the time . At that time, Hansi Burg had various engagements in revues and films. It was love at first sight from both sides. Hansi, with the full baptismal name "Wilhelmine Alexandrine Hansi Antoinette Hirschburg", was born into a prominent family of artists. Her mother was the successful coloratura soprano Emmy Burg-Raabe . Her father Eugen Burg was considered one of the most sought-after theater directors and actors of his time between Vienna and Berlin. The couple spent formative years with Hansi and their two sisters in New York, where Burg directed the German Theater .

Burg and Albers both lived at different addresses in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg around 1925 . They later lived together as a couple. The stately Villa Oeding on the Wannsee served as their weekend home .

Albers made no secret of his antipathies against the Nazi regime. When the National Socialists came to power , the German-Jewish couple soon came under observation and under attack by the Propaganda Minister and in the crosshairs of Nazi racial ideologues. In order to lift the professional ban imposed on him, Albers declared in a letter to Joseph Goebbels dated October 15, 1935, his official separation from the Jew Hansi Burg.

To support this, Hansi Burg entered into a marriage of convenience with the Norwegian citizen Erich Blydt. Blydt was an architect, but since 1922 he ran the “Kunsthandlung Deutsche Kunst” on Kurfürstendamm, where he exhibited members of the Berlin Secession. At the same time as Hansi Burg got married in July 1935, Hans Albers moved his residence from Berlin to Garatshausen in Bavaria on Lake Starnberg .

" In fact, Hans & Hansi continued to live together as a couple on Lake Starnberg until Hansi Burg countered Albers' fickleness of his own and in 1939 left on his own in exile via Switzerland to London ." Without informing Albers in advance, Hansi Burg tore himself apart 1939 because of the increasing legal and social defamation from him. Due to her marriage, she had Norwegian citizenship, which enabled her to flee to England from a vacation in Switzerland. The separation was also for Albers' protection. Unlike her, he had little talent for foreign languages ​​to continue his career abroad. A joint emigration seemed pointless to both of them.

Hansi Burg worked as a clothing representative in England. Shortly after Germany's surrender, she was employed as a reporter for an English newspaper and so came back to Hans Albers. Hansi Burg returned to Albers in May 1945. The relationship continued until Albers' death in 1960.

In the post-war years, Albers and Burg ran a hospitable house in their Garatshausen villa with a large, park-like property. Colleagues from the Babelsberg or Geiselgasteig film studios such as Romy Schneider came to visit.

Years of inheritance disputes began after Albers' death because he had left no will. Thanks to a document on which Albers had noted that Hansi Burg was his heir, she was finally awarded the house and the other assets.

Hansi Burg now lived in seclusion. After the Holocaust lost her entire family, the only confidante was the housekeeper.

In 1971, four years before her death, she sold the villa in Garatshausen to the Free State of Bavaria. The condition was that the acquisition should be used for "public recreational purposes". Castle remained due to the contractually anchored right of residence. Her remains lie in the cemetery of the old Tutzing parish church of St. Peter and Paul. She bequeathed her remaining assets to the association Lebenshilfe e. V., who has been taking care of mentally and multiply disabled people of all ages since 1971.

Filmography

literature

  • Krützen, Michaela: Hans Albers - a German career, Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-88679-252-8 .
  • Steinthaler, Evelyn: May it be in heaven, may it be with the devil: Stars and love under the swastika, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-21801-130-3 .
  • Trapp, Frithjof; Schrader, Bärbel; Wenk, Dieter; Measure; Ingrid: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933-1945. Volume 2 Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists , Munich 1998, ISBN 978-359811-373-4 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c lt. Film archive Kay Less
  2. ^ According to the birth certificate, excerpt from the Evangelical Parish Office of the City of Vienna, No. 1898/299
  3. ^ Letter from Albers to Goebbels
  4. ↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 14.

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personal data
SURNAME Burg, Hansi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1975
Place of death Garatshausen