Jenny Jugo
Jenny Jugo, born Eugenie Jenny Walter, ( born June 14, 1904 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria - Hungary, † 30 September 2001 in King Dorff, Germany ) was an Austrian actress.
Life
Jenny moved over the age of five to Graz, where he first attended elementary school, later the convent school. At the age of 16, she married actor Emo Jugo and followed him to Berlin in 1922. So Jenny Jugo got her last name, but the marriage lasted only a year. In 1924 she was awarded a contract with the UFA and played as unskilled actress several leading roles in silent films, in 1927 in the Carl Sternheim filming The pants and in the German - French co - production of Casanova Alexander Volkov. However, acting lessons when she was only when the talkies began. The comedienne Jugo played in the 1930s mainly in the films of director Erich Engel, the female lead roles. With Joseph Goebbels, who cared as Reich Minister of Propaganda intensively to the film industry, and with whose family she was a close friend at this time, as Goebbels ' diaries can be seen.
Jugo worked until the end of World War II with on numerous films, then moved However, on their farm, the Jägerhof in Schwaighofen at Koenigsdorf back. After 1945, she made only three films, including the ruins movie royal children by Helmut Käutner. In May 1950, she appeared for the last time in public.
In 1971 she received the Film Award for many years of excellent work in the German film.
After a treatment failure in the Institute of the Munich medical practitioner Manfred Köhnlechner 1975, she was dependent for the rest of her life on a wheelchair. Despite the thus again sparked media interest they refused to let to stand for interviews or be photographed. She left her estate overlooking the Alps ever again.
Jugo was married for many years with the actor Friedrich Benfer. She was buried in the cemetery of St. Peter in Graz.