Lil Dagover
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Lil Dagover was a German stage, film and television actress whose career spanned nearly six decades.
, Java
, Dutch East Indies
(now Indonesia
) to Dutch parents. Her father was a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. In 1897, at the age of ten, Seubert's parents sent her back to Europe to continue her education in boarding schools in Baden-Baden
, Weimar
and Geneva
, Switzerland
. Orphaned at the age of 13, she spent the rest of her adolescence with friends and relatives.
After completing her education she began pursuing an extensive career as a stage actress around the principal cities of Europe. In 1917 she married actor Fritz Daghofer, who was twenty-five years her senior. The couple would divorce in 1919 although the union produced a daughter, Eva Marie, born the year of the divorce. Seubert would begin using a variant of her ex-husband's surname as a professional moniker – changing the spelling of 'Daghofer' to 'Dagover'.
. During her brief marriage to Fritz Daghofer, she was introduced to several notable film directors; among them Robert Wiene
and Fritz Lang
. Lang would cast Dagover in the role of 'O-Take-San' in the 1919 exotic drama Harakiri
which would prove to be Dagover's breakout role. Lang would direct Dagover in three more films: 1919's Die Spinnen
(English title: Spiders), 1921's Der Müde Tod
(English release titles: Destiny and Behind The Wall), and 1922's Dr. Mabuse der Spieler. The following year, she would be directed by Robert Wiene in the German Expressionist horror classic Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, from a script by Carl Mayer
and Hans Janowitz
opposite actors Werner Krauss
and Conrad Veidt
.
In Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Dagover would set the stage for future film roles as an exotic, victimized heroine.
By the early 1920s, Dagover was one of the most popular and recognized film actresses in the Weimar Republic
, appearing in motion pictures by such prominent directors as F.W. Murnau, Lothar Mendes
and Carl Froelich
. In 1925 she made her stage debut under the direction of Max Reinhardt
. In the following years she played in Reinhardt’s Deutsches Theater
in Berlin
and also at the Salzburg Festival
. In 1926 she married film producer Georg Witt, who would produce many of Dagover's future films. The couple would remain married until Witt's death in 1972.
Lil Dagover's film career in German cinema through the 1920s was prolific, making over forty films and appearing opposite such actors as Emil Jannings
, Nils Olaf Chrisander
, Aud Egede-Nissen
, Lya De Putti
, Bruno Kastner
and Xenia Desni
. She would also make several films in Sweden
for directors Olof Molander
and Gustaf Molander
and appear in several French silent films – her last film appearance of the 1920s was in the 1929 Henri Fescourt
-directed French silent film adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas, père
novel The Count of Monte Cristo
, opposite Jean Angelo and Marie Glory
.
, Lil Dagover would cease making foreign films and appear only in German productions; with the exception of one English language American
film, Michael Curtiz
-directed drama The Woman From Monte Carlo
(1932) with actor Walter Huston
.
After her return to Germany and the rise of the Third Reich in 1933, she avoided overt political involvement and generally appeared in popular costume musicals and comedies during World War II
. However, in 1937, she received the State Actress award, and in 1944 she was awarded the War Merits Cross for entertaining Wehrmacht
troops on the Eastern Front
in 1943 and 1944 on the German occupied
Channel Islands
of Jersey
and Guernsey
.
While Dagover's films of the period were decidedly apolitical, she was known to be one of Adolf Hitler
's favorite film actresses and Dagover is known to have been a dinner guest of Hitler on several occasions.
, Lil Dagover continued to appear in West German films. In 1948, she appeared in the anti-Nazi drama Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary (English: The Sons of the Lord Gaspary). The film follows the disintegration of a German family living under National Socialism. Dagover's most internationally popular films of the post-WWII era are the 1957 Kurt Hoffmann
-directed comedy-drama Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (English: The Confessions of Felix Krull) and the 1959 Alfred Weidermann-directed adaptations of the 1901 Thomas Mann
novel Buddenbrooks
.
In 1960, Dagover began appearing in numerous West German television roles in addition to continuing to perform in film. In 1973 she starred in the Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winner for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film
of 1974, Der Fußgänger (English title: The Pedestrian
). The film was directed by Austrian actor-director Maximilian Schell, and starred international former early screen peers Peggy Ashcroft
, Käthe Haack
, Elisabeth Bergner
, Elsa Wagner
and Françoise Rosay
.
Dagover's last film role before retiring was in the 1976 Maximillian Schell-directed and produced crime-drama motion picture Der Richter und sein Henker
(English title: The End of the Game). The film starred Martin Ritt
, Donald Sutherland
, Jacqueline Bisset
and Jon Voight
.
annual television and media award from Hubert Burda Media
, and the Cross of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1967.
In 1979, she published her autobiography, Ich war die Dame (English: I Was The Lady).
Lil Dagover died at the age of 92, on January 24, 1980, in Munich
, Bavaria
, Germany
, and was buried at the Waldfriedhof Grünwald cemetery, in Munich.
Early life
Lil Dagover was born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert in MadiunMadiun
Madiun is a city in the western part of the province of East Java Indonesia, an agricultural centre. It is the capital of the regency of the same name....
, Java
Java
Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...
, Dutch East Indies
Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Netherlands government in 1800....
(now Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
) to Dutch parents. Her father was a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. In 1897, at the age of ten, Seubert's parents sent her back to Europe to continue her education in boarding schools in Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden is a spa town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the western foothills of the Black Forest, on the banks of the Oos River, in the region of Karlsruhe...
, Weimar
Weimar
Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
and Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. Orphaned at the age of 13, she spent the rest of her adolescence with friends and relatives.
After completing her education she began pursuing an extensive career as a stage actress around the principal cities of Europe. In 1917 she married actor Fritz Daghofer, who was twenty-five years her senior. The couple would divorce in 1919 although the union produced a daughter, Eva Marie, born the year of the divorce. Seubert would begin using a variant of her ex-husband's surname as a professional moniker – changing the spelling of 'Daghofer' to 'Dagover'.
Acting career in the Weimar Republic
Lil Dagover made her screen debut in a 1913 film by director Louis HeldLouis Held
Louis Held was a German photographer and a pioneer of photojournalism.Held was raised by relatives after the death of his parents in 1860...
. During her brief marriage to Fritz Daghofer, she was introduced to several notable film directors; among them Robert Wiene
Robert Wiene
Robert Wiene was an important film director of the German silent cinema.Robert Wiene was born in Breslau, as the elder son of the successful theatre actor Carl Wiene. His younger brother Conrad also became an actor, but Robert Wiene at first studied law at the University of Berlin. In 1908 he also...
and Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...
. Lang would cast Dagover in the role of 'O-Take-San' in the 1919 exotic drama Harakiri
Harakiri (1919 film)
Harakiri, or Madame Butterfly, is a 1919 silent film directed in Germany by Fritz Lang. It was one of the first Japanese-themed films depicting Japanese culture. The film was originally released in the United States and other countries as Madame Butterfly because of the source material on which it...
which would prove to be Dagover's breakout role. Lang would direct Dagover in three more films: 1919's Die Spinnen
The Spiders (film)
The Spiders is a adventure film directed by Fritz Lang. It was released in two parts in 1919 and 1920.-Synopsis:In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of...
(English title: Spiders), 1921's Der Müde Tod
Der müde Tod
Destiny, or in the original German, Der müde Tod is a 1921 silent film directed in Germany by Fritz Lang. The German language title literally means Weary Death ; the film was originally released in the United States as Behind the Wall and in the United Kingdom as Destiny, the title under which...
(English release titles: Destiny and Behind The Wall), and 1922's Dr. Mabuse der Spieler. The following year, she would be directed by Robert Wiene in the German Expressionist horror classic Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, from a script by Carl Mayer
Carl Mayer
Carl Mayer was an Austrian screenplay writer who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The Haunted Castle , Der Letzte Mann , Tartuffe , Sunrise and 4 Devils , the last five being films directed by F. W...
and Hans Janowitz
Hans Janowitz
Hans Janowitz was a Bohemian-born German author.Janowitz was an officer in World War I, but returned from it as a pacifist. Shortly after the war ended, he met the similarly minded Carl Mayer in Berlin, who suggested he work as an author. Together they wrote the script to The Cabinet of Dr...
opposite actors Werner Krauss
Werner Krauss
Werner Johannes Krauss was a German stage and film actor.-Early life:Krauss was born at the parsonage of Gestungshausen in Upper Franconia, where his grandfather was Protestant pastor. He spent his childhood in Breslau and from 1901 attended the teacher's college at Kreuzburg...
and Conrad Veidt
Conrad Veidt
Conrad Veidt was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The Man Who Laughs , The Thief of Bagdad and Casablanca...
.
In Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Dagover would set the stage for future film roles as an exotic, victimized heroine.
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic is the name given by historians to the parliamentary republic established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government...
, appearing in motion pictures by such prominent directors as F.W. Murnau, Lothar Mendes
Lothar Mendes
Lothar Mendes was a German screenwriter and film director. His most important work was Jew Suss- Personal life:...
and Carl Froelich
Carl Froelich
Carl August Froelich was a German film pioneer and film director.-Apparatus builder and cameraman:...
. In 1925 she made her stage debut under the direction of Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt
----Max Reinhardt was an Austrian theater and film director and actor.-Biography:...
. In the following years she played in Reinhardt’s Deutsches Theater
Deutsches Theater
The Deutsches Theater in Berlin is a well-known German theatre. It was built in 1850 as Friedrich-Wilhelm-Städtisches Theater, after Frederick William IV of Prussia. Located on Schumann Street , the Deutsches Theater consists of two adjoining stages that share a common, classical facade...
in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
and also at the Salzburg Festival
Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
. In 1926 she married film producer Georg Witt, who would produce many of Dagover's future films. The couple would remain married until Witt's death in 1972.
Lil Dagover's film career in German cinema through the 1920s was prolific, making over forty films and appearing opposite such actors as Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...
, Nils Olaf Chrisander
Nils Olaf Chrisander
Nils Olaf Chrisander was a Swedish actor and film director in the early part of the twentieth-century.Born Waldemar Olaf Chrisander in Stockholm, Sweden, Chrisander's first screen appearances as an actor were in German and Swedish silent films in the mid-1910s...
, Aud Egede-Nissen
Aud Egede-Nissen
Aud Richter was a Norwegian actress, appearing in many early 20th century German films.- Biography :...
, Lya De Putti
Lya De Putti
Lya De Putti was a Hungarian film actress of the silent era, noted for her portrayal of vamp characters.-Early life and career:...
, Bruno Kastner
Bruno Kastner
Bruno Kastner was a German stage and film actor, screenwriter and film producer whose career was most prominent in the 1910s and 1920s during the silent film era...
and Xenia Desni
Xenia Desni
Xenia Desni was a Ukrainian actress of the silent screen era.-Career:Desni began her successful career at the beginning of the 1920s with the movie Sappho, followed by a number of successful productions such as Der Sprung ins Leben, Die Prinzessin Suwarin, Wilhelm Tell, Die Andere, Ein Walzertraum,...
. She would also make several films in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
for directors Olof Molander
Olof Molander
Olof Molander was a great and influential Swedish theatre- and film director, most notable for his many Strindberg and Shakespeare productions....
and Gustaf Molander
Gustaf Molander
Gustaf Harald August Molander was a Swedish actor and film director. His parents were the director Harald Molander, Sr. and the singer and actress Lydia Molander, née Wessler, and his brother was the director Olof Molander...
and appear in several French silent films – her last film appearance of the 1920s was in the 1929 Henri Fescourt
Henri Fescourt
Henri Fescourt was a French film director. He directed some 40 films in his career.- Filmography:* 1912 : Un vol a été commis* 1912 : Le Petit restaurant de l'impasse Canin...
-directed French silent film adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas, père
Alexandre Dumas, père
Alexandre Dumas, , born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world...
novel The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is often considered to be, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas's most popular work. He completed the work in 1844...
, opposite Jean Angelo and Marie Glory
Marie Glory
Marie Glory , was a French actress.She was born Raymonde Louise Marcelle Toully in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy. At the time of her death, only Miriam Seegar and Barbara Kent had outlived her as the last known living silent film actors who had lead roles as an adult...
.
Talkies and the Third Reich
With the advent of talkiesSound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially...
, Lil Dagover would cease making foreign films and appear only in German productions; with the exception of one English language American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
film, Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...
-directed drama The Woman From Monte Carlo
The Woman from Monte Carlo
The Woman from Monte Carlo is a 1932 film directed by Michael Curtiz.-Cast:* Lil Dagover* Warren William* Walter Huston* John Wray* George E. Stone* Robert Warwick* Matt McHugh* Frederick Burton* Frank Leigh* Francis McDonald* Warner Richmond...
(1932) with actor Walter Huston
Walter Huston
Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian-born American actor. He was the father of actor and director John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston and actor Danny Huston.-Life and career:...
.
After her return to Germany and the rise of the Third Reich in 1933, she avoided overt political involvement and generally appeared in popular costume musicals and comedies during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. However, in 1937, she received the State Actress award, and in 1944 she was awarded the War Merits Cross for entertaining Wehrmacht
Wehrmacht
The Wehrmacht – from , to defend and , the might/power) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe .-Origin and use of the term:...
troops on the Eastern Front
Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...
in 1943 and 1944 on the German occupied
Occupation of the Channel Islands
The Channel Islands were occupied by Nazi Germany for much of World War II, from 30 June 1940 until the liberation on 9 May 1945. The Channel Islands are two British Crown dependencies and include the bailiwicks of Guernsey and Jersey as well as the smaller islands of Alderney and Sark...
Channel Islands
Channel Islands
The Channel Islands are an archipelago of British Crown Dependencies in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They include two separate bailiwicks: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey...
of Jersey
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
and Guernsey
Guernsey
Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...
.
While Dagover's films of the period were decidedly apolitical, she was known to be one of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
's favorite film actresses and Dagover is known to have been a dinner guest of Hitler on several occasions.
Later career
After the defeat of Nazi GermanyNazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
, Lil Dagover continued to appear in West German films. In 1948, she appeared in the anti-Nazi drama Die Söhne des Herrn Gaspary (English: The Sons of the Lord Gaspary). The film follows the disintegration of a German family living under National Socialism. Dagover's most internationally popular films of the post-WWII era are the 1957 Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann
Kurt Hoffmann was a German film director. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. His film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
-directed comedy-drama Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (English: The Confessions of Felix Krull) and the 1959 Alfred Weidermann-directed adaptations of the 1901 Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...
novel Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks was Thomas Mann's first novel, published in 1901 when he was twenty-six years old. The publication of the 2nd edition in 1903 confirmed that Buddenbrooks was a major literary success in Germany....
.
In 1960, Dagover began appearing in numerous West German television roles in addition to continuing to perform in film. In 1973 she starred in the Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winner for Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film
Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the awards presented at the Golden Globes, an American film awards ceremony.Until 1986, it was known as the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film, meaning that any non-American film could be honoured...
of 1974, Der Fußgänger (English title: The Pedestrian
The Pedestrian (film)
The Pedestrian is a 1973 film directed by Maximilian Schell. It is about the trial of an elderly war criminal. The film was a co-production between companies in Germany, Switzerland and Israel.-Cast:*Peggy Ashcroft - Lady Gray...
). The film was directed by Austrian actor-director Maximilian Schell, and starred international former early screen peers Peggy Ashcroft
Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, DBE was an English actress.-Early years:Born as Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft in Croydon, Ashcroft attended the Woodford School, Croydon and the Central School of Speech and Drama...
, Käthe Haack
Käthe Haack
Käthe Haack was a German actress. She appeared in over 200 films between 1915 and 1980.She was born Käte Lisbeth Minna Sophie Isolde Haack in Berlin, Germany and was previously married to actor Heinrich Schroth, with whom she had a daughter, actress Hannelore Schroth in 1922.-Selected...
, Elisabeth Bergner
Elisabeth Bergner
Elisabeth Bergner was an actress.She was born Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobycz, Austro-Hungarian Empire ....
, Elsa Wagner
Elsa Wagner
-Selected filmography:* The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari * Satanas * Daphne and the Diplomat * The Private's Job * Fracht von Baltimore * Heimkehr * Our Willi Is the Best...
and Françoise Rosay
Françoise Rosay
Françoise Rosay was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema...
.
Dagover's last film role before retiring was in the 1976 Maximillian Schell-directed and produced crime-drama motion picture Der Richter und sein Henker
Der Richter und sein Henker
Der Richter und sein Henker is a novella by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt written in 1950 and first published in English in 1954, in a translation by Cyrus Brooks and later in a translation by Therese Pol. A new translation by Joel Agee appeared in 2006, published together with Suspicion ...
(English title: The End of the Game). The film starred Martin Ritt
Martin Ritt
Martin Ritt was an American director, actor, and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City.-Early career and influences:...
, Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland, OC is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen, , MASH , and Kelly's Heroes , as well as in such popular films as Klute, Invasion of the...
, Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress. She has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award. She is known for her roles in the films Bullitt , Airport , The Deep , Class , and the TV series Nip/Tuck in 2006...
and Jon Voight
Jon Voight
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award, out of four nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards, out of nine nominations. Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie....
.
Death and legacy
In 1962, Lil Dagover was awarded the Bundesfilmpreis. In 1964, she was awarded the BambiBambi (prize)
The Bambi - Deutschlands Wichtigster Medienpreis, often simply called Bambi Awards and stylized as BAMBI, are presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year",...
annual television and media award from Hubert Burda Media
Hubert Burda Media
Hubert Burda Media is a German privately held, family-owned global media company with its origins in printing and magazine publishing. The company is headquartered in Offenburg and Munich, has additional main offices in Berlin and Hamburg and has more than 7400 employees...
, and the Cross of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1967.
In 1979, she published her autobiography, Ich war die Dame (English: I Was The Lady).
Lil Dagover died at the age of 92, on January 24, 1980, in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, and was buried at the Waldfriedhof Grünwald cemetery, in Munich.
Further reading
- Dagover, Lil. Ich war die Dame. Munich: Schneekluth, 1979. ISBN 3-7951-05358
External links
- Lil Dagover: Schauspielerin (in GermanGerman languageGerman is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
) - Lenin Imports
- Lil Dagover at Find A Grave
- Photographs and literature