Biography

Mathilde Danegger was born on August 2, 1903 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Frau Holle (1963), Der fliegende Holländer (1964) and Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe (1940). She was married to Walter Lesch, Herbert Crüger and Herbert Waniek. She died on July 27, 1988 in East Berlin, East Germany.

Daughter of Josef Danegger and sister of Theodor Danegger.

Austrian stage and screen character actress, from 1912 connected with the Deutschen Theater in Berlin. As ideological opponents of the regime, she and her husband (both committed communists) were forced to flee to Switzerland after the Nazis rose to power in 1933. There, she became a co-founder of the movement Freies Deutschland. She re-settled in East Berlin in 1951 and enjoyed a successful career in Defa films and on East German television.