Blandine Ebinger

Blandine Ebinger was born on November 4, 1899 in Berlin, Germany as Blandine Loeser.

The actress Blandine Ebinger already played at the age of eight at the Leipziger Schauspielhaus and was regularly engaged as a child actress. In 1913 followed works at the Trianon-Theater, in 1916 at the Residenz-Theater.

Leading German actress, cabaret performer and chansonniere. The daughter of pianist Gustav Loeser and actress Margarete Wezel, she was on stage from the age of eight. Following her marriage to composer/songwriter Friedrich Hollaender in 1919, she became a major cabaret star in Berlin, performing and recording many of her husband's songs. From 1928, she also appeared in classical roles at the Deutsches Theater. In silent films from 1917, screen success largely eluded her until she re-emerged as a character actress after World War II (notably in DEFA's The Affair Blum (1948) and on television).

Although Ebinger and Hollaender ended their marriage before Hollaender emigrated to the United States because of the increasingly hostile environment for Jewish citizens in the early 1930s, Ebinger nevertheless faced discrimination as a result of the marriage, much of which was directed at their half-Jewish daughter, Philine, who was briefly married to Georg Kreisler.

Ebinger emigrated to the United States in 1937, returning to Berlin in 1947. She moved to Munich, where she met her second husband, the publisher Helwig Hassepflug, in 1961. They eventually settled back in Berlin, where Blandine continued her career in the theater and as an actress on television productions.

In 1946 she returned to Europe where she was engaged at the DEFA for the time being.

She was an actress, known for Der letzte Zeuge (1960), Kleiner Mann - was nun? (1933) and Mädchen in Uniform (1958). She was married to Hassenpflug, Helwig and Friedrich Hollaender.

In 1974 she began parallel to her cinematic career a second one as a chanson singer with tours in Paris, Amsterdam, Los Angeles and others.

Ebinger died on 25 December 1993 in Berlin and is buried on the Waldfriedhof Dahlem.