Hansi Burg (born Wilhelmine Alexandrine Hansi Antoinette Hirschburg; 12 February 1898 – 14 March 1975) was an

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and film actress. She was born in Vienna as the daughter of

Eugen Burg Eugen Burg (6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) was a German actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers. Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was ba ...

, a leading German actor. She took up professional acting in 1917, appearing mostly on the stage but also in several

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. Burg became known for her long-term relationship with the film star Hans Albers who she met while they were acting together. The Nazi Propaganda Minister

Joseph Goebbels Paul Joseph Goebbels (; 29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the ''Gauleiter'' (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 194 ...

forced them to split up because she was Jewish, although they remained in secret contact. During the Second World War she lived in exile in Britain. She returned in 1945 and settled down to live with Albers again. Her father died in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Burg died in Garatshausen,

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municipality in 1975 and is buried at the Alter Friedhof in Tutzing, Bavaria. Burg Hansi

Filmography

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'' (1919) * '' Abenteuer der Bianetti'' (1919) * '' The Girl from Acker Street'' (1920) * '' Der unsichtbare Dieb'' (1920)

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* 1898 births 1975 deaths Austrian film actresses Austrian stage actresses Austrian silent film actresses German film actresses German stage actresses German silent film actresses Actresses from Vienna Austrian Jews Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom 20th-century German actresses {{Germany-film-actor-stub