Hansi Burg
Hansi Burg ( born February 12, 1898 in Vienna, † March 14, 1975 in Garatshausen ) was a German - Austrian actress, who is well remembered their long-standing partnership with Hans Albers in memory.
Life and work
The daughter of actor Eugen Burg grew up in Berlin since 1910 and began her stage career in 1917 at the local comedy house under the artistic direction of Heinrich Bolten - Baeckers. During an engagement at the Trianon Theatre ( season 1920/21 ), she met the colleagues know Albers, who also was working at the time at this venue for the Rotter - brothers. At the same time Hansi Burg was also offered more film roles.
Castle and Albers, then both resident ( at different addresses ) in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, moved in together shortly afterwards and has since lived as a couple. While Albers made a celebrated movie star in the aftermath career, Hansi Burg soon moved back into private life and only joined as partner and consultant of Albers in appearance.
With the coming to power of the Nazis in 1933, the Jewish-Christian couple soon came under observation and under fire of the Propaganda Minister. In order not to jeopardize his career and alleviate the pressure, Albers said in an official letter to Joseph Goebbels on October 15, 1935 his official separation from the Jewish Hansi Burg. To note, she married the Norwegian citizen Erich Blydt to get out of the crosshairs of Nazi racial ideologues. But: " De facto lived Hans & Hansi continue as a pair at Lake Starnberg together to Hansi Burg Albers ' fickleness own determination opposed and 1939 departed secretly into exile via Switzerland to London on your own. "
In 1946, Hansi Burg from England to Germany and continued her relationship with Albers until his death in 1960 continued. In 1971, she sold the land in common Garatshausen to the Free State of Bavaria, but retained until her death in a living law.