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- Birth nameMargarete Geiringer
- Grete von Bukovics was born on March 14, 1892 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for Elixiere des Teufels (1920), Finale (1938) and Don Juan (1919). She died on February 28, 1970 in Vienna, Austria.
- Towards the end of her career, she occasionally worked for Austrian television (ORF) in the 1960s.
- She chose Bukovics as the stage name, after her mother's maiden name.
- From November 1944 to the beginning of April 1945, Margarete von Bukovics was imprisoned by the Gestapo in the prison on Landesgerichtsstrasse for making statements against the military ("statements that undermined military power"), where she was released when the Russian army invaded. According to different statements by her sister Adrienne Gessner, Margarete von Bukovics was imprisoned in the Rossau barracks, where she managed to escape with a fellow sufferer before the capitulation.
- At the end of World War II Grete von Bukovics was arrested because of demoralising statements against the Wehrmacht till to the end of the war.
- She only appeared rarely in the film business - her first movie role was for the production "Don Juan" (1919) . It followed the silent movie "Elixiere des Teufels" (1920), again directed by Edmund Löwe.
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