Of the costume designer to one of the most popular Actresses in Germany: Margot Hielscher has died at the age of 97 years. The multi-talented sang at the Grand Prix, and hosted the first German talk show.
Was seen in more than 50 films and 200 television productions: Margot Hielscher
The screen legend Margot Hielscher dead. Her nephew, Peter, count of sound-Riaucour confirmed reports this Tuesday appropriate media. Hielscher was asleep in their house in Munich, in a peaceful manner. She was 97 years old. Hielscher was in over 50 films and over 200 television productions.
Born in 1919 in Berlin, launched the trained costume designer her acting career after a training in acting and singing in 1940 in “The heart of the Queen” next to Zarah Leander. Many romantic comedies in which Hielscher even sang, they made for one of the most popular Actresses during the war years. After the war she turned more to the singing: 1957 status Hielscher at the second Grand Prix d’Eurovision for Germany on the stage and reached by “telephone, telephone” the fourth place, in the following year, she landed at number seven.
“Hello, miss” of 1949 was one of Hielschers greatest Successes. She also worked on the script.
From 1955 moderated Hielscher in the Bavarian television in the program “guest of Margot Hielscher” of celebrities such as Max Schmeling, Romy Schneider and Erich Kästner to Smalltalk in a replica of her Schwabing apartment on the roof inviting. The consignment is regarded as the first talk show on German television. After ten episodes, which were broadcast on a quarterly basis, however, was the conclusion – probably because a Church had complained to officials about the shipment.
In the mid-1990s, Margot Hielscher, who was, at that time, especially in television productions, withdrew from the film business, but still occasionally on the stage. In the past years, had withdrawn Hielscher from the Public. 29. September, she would have been 98 years old.
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